What the records say
- When
- 2013 – 2015
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 138
- Coordinates
- 35.17° N, 8.84° E
- Incompatibility
- government
- Type of conflict
- intrastate
- Region
- Africa
- Location
- Tunisia
- Side a
- Government of Tunisia
- Side b
- AQIM, JAK-T
Placed at the middle of its 103 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
Sunni Islamist insurgency in the Maghreb
An Islamist insurgency is taking place in the Maghreb region of North Africa, followed on from the end of the Algerian Civil War in 2002. The Algerian militant group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) allied itself with al-Qaeda to eventually become al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
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