article_snippet: The Tunisian ministry released a picture on The Tunisian ministry Facebook page which reportedly shows the leader of Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade Lokmane Abou Sakhr .
article_snippet: Prime Minister Habib Essid has told state news agency TAP that Khaled Chaieb, also known as Abou Sakhr Lokman, was killed overnight in an operation in the Gafsa region near the Algerian border.
article_snippet: Khaled Chaieb is believed to be a prominent militant in al-Qaida's North African arm and is described as one of Tunisia's 'most dangerous terrorists.'
article_snippet: Khaled Chaieb was one of nine armed militants killed in an operation on Saturday evening.
article_snippet: Security officials have claimed nine armed militants killed in an operation on Saturday evening were members of the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, a jihadist group.
article_snippet: Fighters from Tunisia make up a disproportionately high number of foreign recruits to ISIS in Syria, with as many as 10,000 having signed up.
article_snippet: ISIS issued a statement and audio on jihadi websites applauding the dead gunmen as 'knights' for the dead gunmen 'blessed invasion of one of the dens of infidels and vice in Muslim Tunisia'.
article_snippet: Authorities are struggling with scattered extremist violence linked to various radical Islamic groups, largely linked to neighboring countries Algeria or Libya.
article_snippet: Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Aroui said Sunday that nine suspected "terrorists" were killed when security forces clashed with the suspects in the southwest region of Sidi Aich, near the Algerian border.
article_snippet: Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Aroui said several extremists were wounded in another clash in the northwest region of Kef, as part of security operations around Tunisia ahead of the march.
highlights_snippet: Abou Sakhr Lokman is one of nine people killed in overnight armed raid .
  