A telegram channel close to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) recently released an eulogy in tribute to Mokhtar Akkouri, or by his nom de guerre Abu Omar al-Tunisi. Akkouri born 1985 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia was a jihadist veteran, during the years 2006-2007 involved...
In a press release on Thursday March 30, 2017 the US Department of State announced the designation of five individuals as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), among these five the Swedish-Tunisian Sami Bouras. The information concerning Bouras in the press release was limited to a sentence and...
On the night between Saturday and Sunday March 12 around 1h40 local time in the area of Janoura on the outskirts of Kébili in Tunisia's south, islamist militants armed with knives aboard two motorbikes equipped with improvised explosive devices (IED) attacked a security patrol numbering three...
Last Saturday night reports emerged that the wife of AQIM's Al-Mourabitoune leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar had been arrested in Mechili, about 75km south of the Cyrenaican city of Derna, the announcement came from Beida's 'Anti-terrorism and subversion directorate'. According to reports did the counter-terrorist unit act...
In the past days beginning on Saturday November 12, Tunisian security forces have found four arms and ammunition caches in Ben Guerdane and surroundings, the caches were found in Oued Rbaïa, Oglet Chareb El Radjel, Ourasnia and the Jalel district. Some of the caches were...
[caption id="attachment_1020" align="aligncenter" width="635"] Location of Zarzoura, Kef Governorate[/caption] Following combing and search operations in the highlands of the Kef Governorate on Wednesday October 26, army units managed to sieze a what is said to be a SVD-63 Dragunov sniper rifle, although in fact it is...
In the late night on October 10 around 03h00 local time, an unspecified number of terrorists attempted to target a National Guard security post in Aïn Khmouda, located in the delegation Foussana, Kasserine governorate, the security officers detected and opened fire on the group who returned fire...
In the afternoon of Wednesday July 27 clashes emerged between units of the Tunisian armed forces supported by units of the National Guard intelligence reports on suspicious mouvements in the area of Jebel Bou R'bah south of Oued Mliz, Jendouba. During the clashes two terrorists...
After a relatively long time of silence Katibat Uqba Bin Nafaa (KUBN) also known as the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade made its comeback on social media by setting up a new twitter account. Jihadist groups in Tunisia in general have been quite silent with very...
An army unit clashed with terrorists around 19h30 on Saturday July 2 in the area of Zerzoura located in the Kef mountains of Jebel Ouergha. The incident occurred during ongoing combing and search operations to track down terrorists in the region close to the Tunisian-Algerian...