{"id":5325,"date":"2014-09-23T15:21:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T08:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T08:22:39","slug":"al-qaeda-tunisia-offshoot-offers-backing-to-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/al-qaeda-tunisia-offshoot-offers-backing-to-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda Tunisia offshoot offers backing to ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; An Al-Qaeda-linked Tunisian group has offered backing to ISIS, becoming the third jihadist group to do so this week, a U.S.-based monitor says.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s North African branch.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, AQIM and the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula urged jihadists in Iraq and Syria to unite against the common threat from a U.S.-led coalition assembled to fight ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mujahedeen brothers in the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade from&#8230; (Tunisia) are supporting, endorsing, and strongly sustaining the State of the Islamic Caliphate,&#8221; the group said, quoted by SITE Intelligence Group late Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tunisia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2014\/Sep-20\/271372-al-qaeda-tunisia-offshoot-offers-backing-to-isis-site.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis &#8211; An Al-Qaeda-linked Tunisian group has offered backing to ISIS, becoming the third jihadist group to do so this week, a U.S.-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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,4166,2744,645,3748,644,648,4167,3542,257,4694,254,4168,643,4703,653],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda-linked-tunisian-group","tag-isis","tag-islamic","tag-islamic-caliphate","tag-islamic-maghreb","tag-jihadist","tag-jihadist-group","tag-mujahedeen","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state-of-the-islamic-caliphate","tag-tunis","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}