What fate awaits Tunisia's returning jihadis? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Feb 8, 2019

A picture taken on March 22, 2016 shows vehicles waiting near the Tunisian customs post at the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya, south of the town of Ben Guerdane, after it was reopened after a two-week closure in response to a deadly jihadist attack on a town near the frontier.
Both the Ras Jedir crossing on the Mediterranean coast and the Dehiba crossing in the mountainous desert interior reopened at 0600 GMT, ministry spokesman Yasser Mesbah said.Tunisia closed the two crossings on March 7 when doze — A picture taken March 22, 2016, shows vehicles waiting near the Tunisian customs post at the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya, south of the town of Ben Guerdane, after it was reopened after a two-week closure in response to a deadly jihadi attack on a town near the border. — GETTY/Fathi Nasri

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Amberin Zaman

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Police officers stand guard in the town of Ben Guerdane, near the Libyan border, Tunisia April 16, 2019. Picture taken April 16, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC11D6AA6E60

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Amberin Zaman

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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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Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

A photo taken on August 21, 2016 shows the Sidi Salem dam near Testour, in Tunisia's north-west Beja region, which has particularly low water levels due to a 30 percent drop in rainfall in the North African country this year.
Water-cuts, dry dams and withering vegetation: Tunisia has faced a difficult summer due to a lack of rainfall which has reinforced social tensions in several disadvantaged regions. / AFP / FETHI BELAID / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MOUNIR SOUISSI (Photo credit should read FETHI BELA

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