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Thursday, August 10, 2017
Two Islamist militants were killed in Tunisia near the Algerian border. According to a report from the state news agency TAP Tunisian armed forces killed the militants, including a senior commander in a mountain raid late on August 8.
“Two terrorists were killed and weapons were seized during an ambush that National Guard units set up against a terrorist group,” National Guard spokesman Colonel Major Khelifa Chibani told TAP.
Mosaique FM, the Tunisian radio station, identified the commander as Mourad Chaieb, the Algerian leader of Okba Bin Nafaa. The Okba Bin Nafaamilitant group has been skirmishing with Tunisian forces for years in the mountainous interior
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