Tunisia Says Foiled 'Terrorist' Attack İn Kasserine

Tunisian Interior Ministry has said that its forces arrested 13 suspects who were planning a "terrorist" attack in the western province of Kasserine.



According to the ministry, the arrestees were linked to an earlier attack on a police checkpoint in the same province, during which four policemen were killed earlier this month.



The ministry statement that the 13 suspects, including five women, had been arrested in a crackdown in Kasserine following investigations.



Some of the detainees are "directly in contact" with Uqba ibn Nafi militant group, which recently swore allegiance to Daesh, the Arabic acronym for the "Islamic State of Iraq and Levant" (ISIL) militant group.



One of the suspects, the release said, had received military training in Libya. The operation has also unveiled a militant hideout in the Chaambi Mountains region.



Since late 2012, Tunisia's western region on the border with Algeria has seen several militant attacks that have left scores of Tunisian security personnel dead.



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