Bardo National Museum

At least 27 people were killed and several injured as gunmen targeted a tourist hotel near the Tunisian resort city of Sousse on Friday.

The interior ministry informed that a "terrorist attack" was ongoing, with at least one gunman shot dead and another being pursued by security forces, the BBC reports.

A Tunisian soldier opened fire on colleagues at a military base in the capital Tunis on May 25, killing an officer and two others and wounding 15 more before being shot dead himself, Tunisian authorities said.

Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite a Moroccan suspected of involvement in the deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March, the interior ministry said May 22.

Italian police said May 20 they had arrested a Moroccan suspected of taking part in the March attack on the Bardo National Museum in Tunis in which 21 foreign tourists were killed.

Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist militants on March 29, hours after the government said its forces had killed nine members of a group suspected of carrying out this month's deadly Bardo Museum attack.
   

Tunisia's national museum on Tuesday delayed a planned reopening after last week's attack on foreign tourists due to security concerns, its head of communications Hanene Srarfi told AFP.
      

BELGRADE - Tunisian Ambassador in Belgrade Majid Hamlaoui said that Tunisia has implemented all possible security measures after the recent terrorist attack to prevent such events from happening ever again.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for for the deadly attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia's capital.

23 people were killed in Wednesday's attack, including 18 foreign tourists, five Tunisians and two gunmen, according to an announcement of Health Minister Said Aidi.

Nine people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with Wednesday's terror attack in the country's capital, Fox News has reported.

Four of those arrested are suspected of being directly related to the attack, according to a statement released by Tunisia's presidential office on Thursday. The other five were arrested "under strong suspicion of relation" to the shooting.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) "strongly condemns" the attack at the Bardo Museum of Tunis on Wednesday afternoon and expresses its "full support" for the efforts of Tunisian authorities to fight any terrorist acts, a media release informed AGERPRES.

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