(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, NOVEMBER 22 - The Tunisian military last
night started carpet bombing vast wooded tracts of the Chaambi
and Sammama mountains along the Algerian border in an effort to
destroy Islamic terrorist hideouts, Defense Ministry spokesman
Tawfik Rahmouni made known on Friday.
The raids employed rockets and heavy artillery, he said.
The area has in past months seen fierce clashes between elite Tunisian forces and Islamist militias often ending in hand-to-hand combat.(ANSAmed).
The raids employed rockets and heavy artillery, he said.
The area has in past months seen fierce clashes between elite Tunisian forces and Islamist militias often ending in hand-to-hand combat.(ANSAmed).
