A rustic theatre where performers wear masks carved from cactus aims to win over young Tunisians in a long neglected mountain district that has become a cradle of jihadism. Welcome to the “Jabal (mountain) Theatre” of music and dance on an open-air stage flattened from bare earth on Mount Sammama, in a range of hills … Read more
Soldiers shot dead two suspected jihadists on Friday in the mountainous Kasserine region of central Tunisia, the defence ministry said. A military unit “was this afternoon able to kill two terrorists and wound others on Sammama mountain”, it said in a statement, without specifying how many were wounded. The army also detained “a suspected person” … Read more
Kasserine (Tunisia) (AFP) – Two suspected jihadists were killed in a nighttime raid by security forces in the Kasserine region of Tunisia that also left a civilian dead, the interior ministry said Wednesday. It said a gun battle on Tuesday night between security forces and the suspects holed up in a house lasted several hours, … Read more
Tunis (AFP) – An Al-Qaeda-linked group Tuesday claimed responsibility for a blast that killed three Tunisian soldiers near Mount Sammama, a hideout for jihadists at war with authorities, SITE Intelligence Group said. The Obka Ibn Nafaa Battalion, which has claimed a string of previous attacks, said on its Twitter account that it ambushed two military … Read more