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Three Suspected Militants Killed in Tunisia Near Algerian Border | |||
2021-04-03 | |||
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Three suspected turbans, including an Asian woman and local leader in ISIS, were killed in Tunisian mountains near the Algerian border in two police operations, a security official said on Thursday. Six years ago an ISIS turban rubbed out 39 foreigners on a beach in Sousse, triggering an exodus of tourists and severely damaging Tunisia's economy. Since then Tunisia has grown more effective in preventing and responding to attacks, but sleeper cells still pose a real threat, especially with the return of turbans from Syria, Iraq and Libya. "Our forces killed a terrorist, as his Asian wife blew herself up, killing also her baby in Saloum mountain,"
He added that Hamdi Dhouib, a local leader in Jund El Khilafah, an affiliate branch of ISIS was also killed in an ambush in Mghila mountains. The mountainous Mghila and Saloum area, near the impoverished city of Kasserine, is home to an Islamist turban group that the Tunisian army has been fighting for years.
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