Tunisia Military

Attackers with knives killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another Sunday before three assailants were later shot dead in a firefight, the military force said, labelling it a "terrorist" act.

Britain has sent 40 military personnel to Tunisia to provide training aimed at helping the North African country prevent the spread of ISIS terrorists from neighbouring Libya, the British defence minister said on Saturday.

Germany is considering sending troops to Tunisia to help train soldiers in the fight against the ISIS, a newspaper report said on Sunday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry promised more support for security, economic reforms, and democratization in Tunisia on Friday and said he had signed an agreement to start negotiations on a third US loan guarantee for the country.

Britain has dispatched a Boeing C17 military transport plane to Tunisia to evacuate tourists wounded in a gun massacre, as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to mount a full investigation.

In a statement posted on Twitter, IS said the attack in the Sidi Bouzid region was carried out by "two soldiers of the caliphate who attacked two military sites with small arms."

The United States will increase military aid to Tunisia threefold this year and help train its troops, a senior US official said on Friday, weeks after the country suffered its deadliest militant attack in more than a decade.

Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil.

Around 20 al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Tunisia's central Kasserine region, killing four police officers and stealing their weapons, the government said on Wednesday.

A Tunisian military court has sentenced a blogger to one year in prison on charges he insulted the army, his lawyers told Reuters, in a case rights activists fear may undermine freedoms won after the 2011 revolution.

The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias, the State Department said.

A Libyan army medical plane crashed south of Tunis early on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, Tunisian emergency services said.

The toppling of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi divided the Middle East on Thursday, with Tunisia's ruling Islamists denouncing it as a coup while Gulf Arab leaders celebrated.

Bradley Manning, accused in WikiLeaks disclosures case, had put US military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, said prosecutors on Monday as the Army intelligence analyst went on trial over leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

A Tunisian military court has convicted the former President in absentia of inciting violence and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in a month-long popular uprising last year and fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14, 2011.

Attackers with knives killed a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another Sunday before three assailants were later shot dead in a firefight, the military force said, labelling it a "terrorist" act.

Britain has sent 40 military personnel to Tunisia to provide training aimed at helping the North African country prevent the spread of ISIS terrorists from neighbouring Libya, the British defence minister said on Saturday.

Germany is considering sending troops to Tunisia to help train soldiers in the fight against the ISIS, a newspaper report said on Sunday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry promised more support for security, economic reforms, and democratization in Tunisia on Friday and said he had signed an agreement to start negotiations on a third US loan guarantee for the country.

Britain has dispatched a Boeing C17 military transport plane to Tunisia to evacuate tourists wounded in a gun massacre, as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to mount a full investigation.

In a statement posted on Twitter, IS said the attack in the Sidi Bouzid region was carried out by "two soldiers of the caliphate who attacked two military sites with small arms."

The United States will increase military aid to Tunisia threefold this year and help train its troops, a senior US official said on Friday, weeks after the country suffered its deadliest militant attack in more than a decade.

Gunmen in military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians on Wednesday in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that has largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil.

Around 20 al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants attacked a checkpoint in Tunisia's central Kasserine region, killing four police officers and stealing their weapons, the government said on Wednesday.

A Tunisian military court has sentenced a blogger to one year in prison on charges he insulted the army, his lawyers told Reuters, in a case rights activists fear may undermine freedoms won after the 2011 revolution.

The United States shut down its embassy in Libya on Saturday and evacuated its diplomats to neighbouring Tunisia under US military escort amid a significant deterioration in security in Tripoli as fighting intensified between rival militias, the State Department said.

A Libyan army medical plane crashed south of Tunis early on Friday, killing all 11 people on board, Tunisian emergency services said.

The toppling of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi divided the Middle East on Thursday, with Tunisia's ruling Islamists denouncing it as a coup while Gulf Arab leaders celebrated.

Bradley Manning, accused in WikiLeaks disclosures case, had put US military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, said prosecutors on Monday as the Army intelligence analyst went on trial over leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

A Tunisian military court has convicted the former President in absentia of inciting violence and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in a month-long popular uprising last year and fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14, 2011.