Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Chapters: Military history of Tunisia, Tunisian military personnel, Wars involving Tunisia, Battle of Ad Decimum, Tunisian Armed Forces, Battle of Zama, Battle of Tricamarum, Insurgency in the Maghreb, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Mercenary War, Vandalic War, Conquest of Tunis, Battle of Djerba, French occupation of Tunisia, Battle of Thapsus, Battle of Cape Bon, Battle of Carthage, International rankings of Tunisia, Mahdian Crusade, Battle of Adys, Tunisian Air Force, Rachid Ammar, Battle of Tunis, Battle of the Great Plains, Bizerte crisis, Tunisian independence, Battle of Utica, Mahdia campaign, Action of March 1665, Action of 1616. Excerpt: The Maghreb (more specifically, Algeria, Mauritania and Morocco) has been the subject of an insurgency since 2002 waged by the neo-Khawarij Islamist militia, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, or, GSPC. The GSPC allied itself with the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb against the Algerian government. This alliance created a division within the GSPC and led to the creation of the Free Salafist Group (GSL) another militant group opposing the Algerian government and Western interests. The conflict is a continuation of the Algerian Civil War that ended in 2002, and has since spread to other neighboring countries. With the Groupe Islamique Armé's decline, the GSPC was left as the most active rebel group, with about 300 fighters in 2003. It continued a campaign of assassinations of police and army personnel in its area, and also managed to expand into the Sahara, where its southern division, led by Amari Saifi (nicknamed "Abderrezak el-Para", the "paratrooper"), kidnapped a number of German tourists in 2003, before being forced to flee to sparsely populated areas of Mali, and later Niger and Chad, where he was captured. Some believe that El Para actually works for the Algerian government. By late 2003, the group's founder had been supplanted by the even more radical Nabil Sahraoui, who announced his open support for al-Qaeda, thus strengthening government ties between the U.S. and Algeria. He was reportedly killed shortly afterwards, and was succeeded by Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud in 2004. The GSPC has declared its intention to attack Algerian, French, and American targets. It has been designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State, and similarly classed as a terrorist organization by the European Union. Yet certain observers have consistently argued that the claims about terrorist threats in the Sahara and an alliance between these groups and Al-Qaida are exaggerated, that certain key events were fabricated, and that much of t

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