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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,"

...sometimes spelt Salloum...

said Colonel Houssem Jbebli, an official in National Guard.

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.

Another AAWSAT article adds this about the Saloum family:

The explosion killed her baby in her arms, while an older daughter also at the scene survived, according to the ministry.

An Nahar adds:

Tunisia has kept in place a state of emergency, renewed twice-yearly, since a deadly 2015 attack on a presidential guard bus claimed by IS.

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