(MENAFN) Tunisian security forces broke up more than 160 jihadist cells in the Jan-Oct period of this year, almost 45 percent more than during the whole of 2015.
Accordingly, the number of terrorism suspects arrested between the cited periods this year reached 850, compared with 547 for all of 2015.
In addition, security forces stepped up efforts to track down militants after the North African country suffered three main deadly attacks last year.
In March this year, security forces repelled an attempted Islamic State takeover of the town of Ben Guerdan near the border with Libya.
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