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Tunisia’s poor population face death by terrorists

Six years into the war on terrorism in the neglected mountainous region of Tunisia and the government is still unable to do much to improve the economic situation of the poor or protect them from terrorist threats.
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
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The Tunisian armed forces found the body of Khalifa al-Sultani, a 21-year-old shepherd, in Jebel Mghila in the central governorate of Sidi Bouzid on June 3, after combing the exact area where the body of his brother, Mabrouk, was previously found in November 2015.

On the same day, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for Khalifa's death. Back in 2015, IS posted a video showing the final moments of Mabrouk, 16, before he was beheaded, accusing him of cooperating with the Tunisian military services.

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