Tunisia’s poor population face death by terrorists - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ahmed Nadhif

Ahmed Nadhif

Jun 14, 2017

Hamid Ishi stands in his house, which was squatted by Islamic State jihadists and damaged during fighting with government forces, in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia April 10, 2016. After a U.S. air strike killed a Tunisian jihadist commander in western Libya in late February, dozens of Islamic State fighters sneaked across the border into Tunisia and attacked an army barracks and police bases in the town of Ben Guerdane. In the battle that followed, Islamic State militants shot dead local Tunisian anti-terrorism chie — Hamid Ishi stands in his house, which was squatted in by Islamic State fighters and damaged during fighting with government forces, in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, April 10, 2016. — REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

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A sign is seen at the edge of Remada, Tunisia April 11, 2016. Tunisia's 2011 uprising created fertile ground for jihadist recruiters. Hundreds of Islamist militants were freed from prison as part of an amnesty for those detained under Ben Ali. Ultra-conservative salafists began to flex their muscle, seizing control of mosques and clashing with secularists. As Tunisia's politics have stabilised, the government has reasserted control, taking back mosques, banning the local al Qaeda affiliate Ansar al Sharia,

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