TUNIS: An Al Qaeda-linked Tunisian group has offered backing to the Islamic State organisation, becoming the third jihadist group to do so this week, a US-based monitor says.
Okba Ibn Nafaa, whose militants Tunisian armed forces have been hunting in mountains near the Algerian border for two years, has identified itself with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the international jihadist network’s North African branch.
“The mujahedeen brothers in the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade from... (Tunisia) are supporting, endorsing, and strongly sustaining the State of the Islamic Caliphate,” the group said, quoted by SITE Intelligence Group late on Friday.
AFP
