{"id":27899,"date":"2019-01-03T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27899"},"modified":"2019-01-03T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T12:25:55","slug":"two-killed-as-tunisian-security-forces-storm-armed-group-hideout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27899","title":{"rendered":"Two killed as Tunisian security forces storm armed group hideout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"77.8927637315\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Two gunmen\u00a0commited suicide in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/tunisia.html\">Tunisia<\/a> after exchanging fire with security forces in the city of Jilma, located some 250 kilometres south of the capital Tunis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">An interior ministry statement on Thursday said the assailants killed themselves after being surrounded by security forces during a raid on their hideout late on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The toppling of longtime leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/spotlight\/tunisia\/2011\/01\/201111502648916419.html\">Zine El Abidine Ben Ali<\/a> during the Arab Spring uprisings led to a security vacuum that has been exploited by armed groups in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Between 3,000 and 6,000 Tunisians are estimated to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/isis-isil.html\">ISIL<\/a>, also known as ISIL) in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\"> Iraq<\/a>, Syria as well as neighbouring Libya where a civil war is raging.<\/p>\n<p>ISIL has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly attacks, mostly targeting tourist destinations, including one on the Bardo National Museum and a second on a beach resort in the town of Sousse.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/tunis-suicide-attack-wake-call-tense-politics-181030130301913.html\">attack<\/a>\u00a0by a woman\u00a0in downtown Tunis in October raised questions about safety in a country where tourism remains vital to the economy.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"Brightcove\" data-embed-id=\"5672092753001\">\n<table class=\"in-article-item video Fullwidth\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td readability=\"5\">\n<p>WATCH: Adel Chihi: How sport can make a difference in Tunisia &#8211; My Tunisia (24:02)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two gunmen\u00a0commited suicide in Tunisia after exchanging fire with security forces in the city of Jilma, located some 250 kilometres south of the capital Tunis. An interior ministry statement on Thursday said the assailants killed themselves after being surrounded by security forces during a raid on their hideout late on Wednesday.\u00a0 The toppling of longtime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}