Chaambi Operations

Chaambi Operations
Part of the insurgency in the Maghreb

View from the top of Mount Chambi in 2008.
Date10 December 2012 (2012-12-10) – c. 2019[1]
Location
Jebel ech Chambi
Status

Tunisian victory[1]

  • Tunisian National Guard eliminates Okba Ibn Nafaa commanders on 28 March 2015 and continues to eliminate many more afterwards.
  • Declaration of certain mountain areas as military locked zones that require prior authorization to enter for non-military entities.
Belligerents
 Tunisia Ansar al-Sharia
AQIM
Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade
Commanders and leaders
Former commanders
  • Khaled Chaieb (Lokman Abou Sakhr)  †
  • Mourad Chaieb (Aouf Abu Al-Mudjahed)
  • Abd Al-Kader Dabbar (Haroun)  †
  • Seifallah Ben Hassine (Abu Iyadh)
  • Abu Anas Al-Djazayiri
  • Kamel Zaghrouf (Muawiya Abou Hamza)  †
  • Anas El Atri (Abu Anas)  †
  • Mourad Gharsalli  †
  • Abu Sofiane Al-Soufi  †
  • Moussa Abu Rahla (Abu Daoud)
  • Mohammad Al-Arbi Ben Messaoud (Yahya Abu Saad)
  • Abu Abdulrahman
  • Abu Ahmad Al-Djazayiri
Units involved
Tunisian Army
Tunisian National Guard		 No specific units
Strength
6,000 soldiers (August 2014) 80 (2018)
Casualties and losses
57 killed[a]
60 wounded		 200 killed
1500 captured
a 21 National Guard, 14 GFS,[2] and 1 Customs Guard.

The Chaambi Operations, or Battle of Chaambi were part of the insurgency in the Maghreb. In December 2012, the Tunisian Army launched an offensive against the Salafist jihadists in Jebel ech Chambi near Kasserine. The conflict ended with the victory of the Tunisian Army in 2019.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Tunisie : L'armée bombarde les sites de terroristes au Jebel Chaambi". 2 December 2019.
  2. ^ "القوات الخاصة بالجيش التونسي: قدمنا 14 شهيدا منذ اندلاع الثورة". 8 May 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2017.