“Tunisian troops clashed on Wednesday with around 50 armed jihadists in the remote Mount Chaambi border region, a security source said, the first such operation since the revolution in January 2011. ‘The group consists of more than 50 Salafi jihadists,’ the source told AFP, adding that they were well armed and some were veteran Islamist militants who had come from northern Mali.”
Source: Tunisian army, armed jihadists in border clash | GulfNews.com
