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Jihadist girlfriend suicide bomber exploits herself and her young daughter with a belt of explosives when security forces entered after her extremist husband was killed in Tunisia
- A foreign jihadist blew herself up in a well-known jihadist hideout in southwestern Tunisia
- Another jihadist was also killed in a security operation in the region on Thursday.
- Tunisia is in a state of emergency due to the attacks of the Islamic State since June 2015
A suspected foreign jihadist blew up herself and her little girl with a belt of explosives as security forces approached the mountains in central Tunisia, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
The child she was carrying was killed instantly and another girl was injured when the woman detonated the belt on Thursday.
She decided to detonate the suicide belt after security forces killed her husband in the raid in the remote Mount Selloum area of Kasserine, near the border with Algeran, a notorious jihadist hideout.
The bombing took place in the remote remote area of Kasserine’s Mount Selloum, near the Algerian border, a notorious jihadist hideout.
A suspected foreign jihadist blew up herself and her little girl with a belt of explosives as security forces approached the mountains in central Tunis (in the photo, suspected IS members at Al-Hol camp in northern Syria)
Another Islamic extremist was also killed in a security operation in the region on Thursday, the ministry added.
Hamdi Dhouib, a high-ranking member of the outlawed Jund al-Khalifa, a group linked to the Islamic State (IS), was “killed” by a national guard and an army operation on Mount Mghila, also in Kasserine.
The Jund al-Khalifa brigade pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and is believed to be behind several attacks in Tunisia in recent years.
The woman decided to detonate the suicide belt after the security forces killed her husband in the raid (in the photo, women and children wait to leave the Al-Hol camp in Syria).
A high-ranking member of the outlawed Jund al-Khalifa, a group linked to the Islamic State (IS), was ‘eliminated’ by a national guard and an army operation on Mount Mghila, also in Kasserine (in the photo, the fighters ISIS support the group’s flat in Syria in 2013)
Tunisia has faced several jihadist attacks after its 2011 revolution, with dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists killed.
It has maintained a state of emergency, renewed twice a year, since a deadly attack in 2015 against a presidential guard bus claimed by IS.
Also in 2015, ISIS claimed an attack that left 38 tourists, including 30 British, in a hotel in eastern Tunisia in Sousse.
In the attack, two armed men opened fire on a spa at the Imperial Marhaba Hotel.
Tunisia has faced several jihadist attacks after its 2011 revolution, with dozens of security personnel, civilians and foreign tourists killed. It has maintained a state of emergency, renewed twice a year, since a deadly attack in 2015 against a presidential guard bus claimed by IS.
British troops were dispatched to assist Tunisia’s military efforts to prevent IS fighters from entering from neighboring Libya devastated by war in 2016.
The British Army helped train Tunisian forces in border security methods.
In 2015, the Tunisian government announced that it had built a 104-mile-long fence along its border with Libya to help prevent jihadists from crossing illegally and to prevent arms sales.
British troops were dispatched to assist in Tunisia’s military efforts to prevent IS fighters from entering from neighboring Libya devastated by war in 2016 (pictured, a woman and a child are walking in the Al-Hol camp in Syria )
