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mountainous Moghila area, near the impoverished city of
Kasserine, is home to an Islamist militant group that the
Tunisian army has been fighting for years.
Tunisia faces a small but persistent militant threat, foreign
diplomats focused on security say.
As well as jihadist cells holed up in remote mountain regions,
who have not made successful forays beyond their strongholds in
recent years, there is also a threat from militants radicalised
online.
Last year militants tried to attack the U.S. embassy in Tunis,
killing a policeman at a security point with a suicide vest, and
months later stabbed two security officers in a knife attack in
the city of Sousse.
In October, a young Tunisian migrant arrived in France and
immediately killed three people in a church.
(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by
Jon Boyle and Giles Elgood)
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