Tunisia launches military operations aimed at islamists on her borders

Our MSM really keeps us in the dark about events that  matter to us, or should matter to us given the state of the world we live in now.  Reuters at least reports  on what's happening in Tunisia, although in bits and pieces  and hidden well inside layers and layers of other insignificant news.  

Tarek Amara and Erika Solomon writing at Reuters:
....Tunisian forces launched air and ground strikes on Islamist militants near the Algerian border on Friday after fierce overnight clashes in the area, which coincided with increased instability and political turmoil in the North African country.
Aircraft bombed caves in the Mount Chaambi area, where the military has been trying to track down Islamist militants since December, witnesses said on Friday.
"A major military operation with the participation of air and ground units began at dawn on Friday," army spokesman Taoufik Rahmouni said, adding that the army had surrounded a "terrorist" group of 15 to 20 militants.

"The army has now imposed a security ring around the area and is searching nearby towns in the region. Until now there are no casualties or arrests (in Mount Chaambi)," he said.
The operation was launched in the same area where militants ambushed and killed eight soldiers on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks on Tunisian security forces in decades. The gunmen slit the throats of some of their victims.
Tunisia's Islamist-led government is grappling with rising instability and a mounting protest movement organized by the secular opposition that is demanding its resignation. Rival rallies to support the ruling coalition have also been growing.........

From ElWatan  (Google translation)
....The Tunisian army was  conducting an operation Friday "large-scale" to "eradicate" an armed group in the Algerian border, where eight soldiers were brutally killed, while still political crisis destabilized the government led by Islamists. 
Clashes erupted the night at Mount Chaambi, where the army hunts since December a group called "Phalanx Uqbah Ibn Nafaâ" allegedly linked to Al-Qaeda and counting veterans Islamist rebellion in northern Mali. 
According door voice of the army, Taoufik Rahmouni, "a large-scale operation, with the use of air and ground units, began at dawn to clean up the mountain" Chaambi. 
"Operations will continue until their eradication , "he told AFP. The spokesman and a source on site indicated that the army was not able to estimate the number of fighters. 
No new information was leaked early evening on these maneuvers, but the Prime Minister announced a press conference on these events Saturday 3:30 p.m. (1430 GMT). 
Algeria had announced Thursday that it deployed more troops on its side of the border.......