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Tunisia Faces Greater Threat From Returning Jihadis

An anticipated stream of ISIS fighters returning home has Tunisian authorities on high alert.
A member of Tunisian special forces stands guard on the outskirts of Ben Guerdane, March 21. Jihadis mounted a deadly assault on the town earlier that month.
Tunisian Specials Forces

On a cool morning in March, the call of “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) echoed from the loudspeakers of a mosque in the Tunisian border town of Ben Guerdane. Fighters for the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), most of them Tunisian, had arrived home from neighboring Libya, and now they were urging residents to join them as they launched an assault

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