Tunisia... thwarted a terrorist attack planned by a young woman returning from Syria

Today, Friday, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior announced that it had thwarted a terrorist attack that was to target a tourist area, by a girl who received training in Syria when she joined one of the terrorist groups there.

The Ministry of the Interior said in a statement, published on its official account on Facebook, that it received information that "a girl (22 years old) intended to carry out a terrorist operation in our country, after her return from Syria, where she belonged to one of the terrorist organizations there and received training."

She explained that after conducting the necessary investigations, the suspect was arrested at Carthage International Airport from Turkey on the tenth of January.

The accused confessed to the charges against her, and admitted during the investigation that she traveled to Turkey in the summer of 2020, and with the help of a Syrian national, she moved from there to Syria in 2021, where she joined a terrorist organization, and received training in preparation for a suicide operation.

Investigations revealed that the suicide attack was targeting one of the tourist areas in Tunisia, and that during her stay in Syria she had contacted a Tunisian person with a view to providing her with an explosive belt upon her return to the country.

And it turned out that her partner is a "terrorist element who was recently imprisoned for his involvement in planning and preparing terrorist operations that would target prominent state officials at the end of the past year," according to a Tunisian Interior Ministry statement.

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