Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia

Islamic State insurgency in Tunisia
	Part of spillover of the Second Libyan Civil War, the Arab Winter, War on Terror and War against the Islamic State
	; Security forces during the Battle of Ben Guerdane
Date	26 June 2015 – c. 2022
Location	Tunisia
Result	Tunisian victory
Belligerents
Islamic State Islamic State – Libya Province; Islamic State – Algeria Province; Islamic State – Tunisia Province; Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade; Ansar al-Sharia; (only in March 2016);	Tunisia Tunisian National Guard; Tunisian Army; Tunisian Police;
Commanders and leaders
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi †; (Leader of IS); Former Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † ; Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi † ; Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi † ; Abu Nabil al-Anbari † ; Abdul Qader al-Najdi † ; Abdelmalek Gouri † ; Abu Ayyad al-Tunisi † ;	Kais Saied ; Former commanders Beji Caid Essebsi † ; Mohamed Ennaceur ; Habib Essid ; Youssef Chahed ; Elyes Fakhfakh ; Hichem Mechichi ; Najla Bouden ; Mohamed Najem Gharsalli ; Hédi Majdoub ; Lotfi Brahem ; Hichem Fourati ; Taoufik Charfeddine ; Ridha Gharsallaoui ; Farhat Horchani ; Abdelkarim Zbidi ; Mohamed Karim El Jamoussi ; Imed Hazgui ; Brahim Bartagi ;
Casualties and losses
45–67+ killed; 54+ captured	38 killed; 38 wounded
	41–63+ civilians killed; 46–88+ civilians wounded; 1 kidnapped; 1 missing Total: 172–216+ killed; 84–126 wounded

The Islamic State Insurgency in Tunisia referred to the low–level militant and terror activity of the Islamic State branch in Tunisia from 2015 to 2022. The activity of the Islamic State (IS) in Tunisia began in June 2015, with the Sousse attacks, though an earlier terror incident in Bardo Museum in March 2015 was claimed by IS, while the Tunisian government blamed Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade for the attack. Following massive border clashes near Ben Guerdane in March 2016, the activity of the IS group was described as an armed insurgency, switching from previous tactics of sporadic suicide attacks to attempts to gain territorial control. The armed insurgency was suppressed in 2022.