PARIS — Tunisia’s defence minister estimated on Tuesday that some 1,000 of his countrymen are fighting for the Islamic State group in Libya, branding them a threat to their home nation. On the sidelines of a security conference in Paris, Farhat Horchani told journalists that reports of 2,000-3,000 Tunisian jihadists in Libya are exaggerated, saying "it’s on the order of 1,000." He went on to say there is no regional plan to deal with foreign fighters in Libya, noting: "Countries handle the issue day-by-day". If we confront terrorism only on the security or military fronts, we lose the war," Horchani added. The Sunni extremists took advantage of the chaos in oil-rich Libya following the 2011 uprising, seizing the city in June 2015.

Source: Viet Nam News September 06, 2016 19:52 UTC