Alwaght-Syria has strongly condemned ISIS terrorist attacks in Tunisia and urged joint efforts to tackled terrorism globally.
Tunisian officials say 55 people including 36 terrorists were killed in clashes with ISIS terrorists who attacked military and security posts in Ben Gardane that is close to Tunisia’s border with Libya on Monday. A total of seven civilians and 12 members of Tunisia's security forces were killed, and 17 others were injured.
In a statement on Tuesday, Syrian Foreign Ministry expressed the country’s “solidarity with brotherly Tunisia and sympathy with the families of the innocent victims.”
The statement added that, “Syria renews call for unifying all sincere efforts to put an end to the scourge of terrorism that is becoming a serious threat to the peace and stability of the region and the world.”
The source further noted that Syria has been for five years fighting this same terrorism that has stricken a number of brotherly countries being supported by the Saudi regime mainly among other regional and international parties.
Meanwhile Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid praised the country’s military and security forces for their response to the deadly assault by extremist attackers near the Libyan border.
Prime Minister Habib Essid praised Tunisia's military and security forces on Tuesday for their response to the deadly assault by extremist attackers near the Libyan border.
Tunisian forces have repeatedly clashed with terrorists and extremists on the borders of Libya and Algeria in recent years, but Monday's fighting was unusually bloody. Tunisia has been a model of relative stability for the region since an uprising five years ago ushered in democracy and inspired Islamic Awakening against dictatorships across the region.
An uprising in neighboring Libya led to the ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, but since then the country has fallen into chaos, allowing the ISIS terrorist group to take control of several cities. The divided country is ruled by two parliaments: an internationally recognized body based in the eastern city of Tobruk and a rival government, backed by militias, that controls the capital, Tripoli.
Tunisia recently completed a 200-km barrier along its border with Libya to try to keep out terrorists. More than 3,000 Tunisians had joined ISIS and other terrorists groups in Syria and Iraq, but Hachani said many had now returned to North Africa to join the Takfiri group in Libya.
