Chaambi Operations

Chaambi Operations
	Part of the insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)
	; View from the top of Mount Chambi in 2008.
Date	10 December 2012 – present
Location	Jebel ech Chambi
Status	Ongoing Tunisian National Guard eliminates Okba Ibn Nafaa commanders on 28 March 2015 and continues to eliminate many more afterwards.; Declaration of certain mountain areas as military locked zones that require prior authorization to enter for non-military entities.;
Belligerents
Tunisia	Ansar al-Sharia; AQIM; Uqba ibn Nafi Brigade
Commanders and leaders
Kais Saied; Ahmed Hachani; Kamel Feki; Imed Memmich; Former commanders Moncef Marzouki ; Beji Caid Essebsi † ; Mohamed Ennaceur ; Hamadi Jebali ; Ali Laarayedh ; Mehdi Jomaa ; Habib Essid ; Youssef Chahed ; Elyes Fakhfakh ; Hichem Mechichi ; Najla Bouden ; Lotfi Ben Jeddou ; Mohamed Najem Gharsalli ; Hédi Majdoub ; Lotfi Brahem ; Hichem Fourati ; Ridha Gharsallaoui ; Taoufik Charfeddine ; Rachid Sabbagh ; Ghazi Jeribi ; Farhat Horchani ; Abdelkarim Zbidi ; Mohamed Karim El Jamoussi ; Imed Hazgui ; Brahim Bartagi ;	Khaled Chaieb (Lokman Abou Sakhr) †; Mourad Chaieb (Aouf Abu Al-Mudjahed); Abd Al-Kader Dabbar (Haroun) †; Seifallah Ben Hassine (Abu Iyadh); Abu Anas Al-Djazayiri; Kamel Zaghrouf (Muawiya Abou Hamza) †; Anas El Atri (Abu Anas) †; Mourad Gharsalli †; Abu Sofiane Al-Soufi †; Moussa Abu Rahla (Abu Daoud); Mohammad Al-Arbi Ben Messaoud (Yahya Abu Saad); Abu Abdulrahman; Abu Ahmad Al-Djazayiri;
Units involved
Tunisian Army ; Tunisian National Guard	No specific units
Strength
6,000 soldiers (August 2014)	80 (2018)
Casualties and losses
57 killed; 60 wounded	200 killed; 1500 captured
	a 21 National Guard, 14 GFS, and 1 Customs Guard.

The Chaambi Operations or Battle of Chaambi is part of the insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present). In December 2012, the Tunisian Army launched an offensive against the Salafist jihadists in Jebel ech Chambi near Kasserine.

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