TUNIS (Reuters) - Militants killed eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, the president's office and state TV said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks on the country's security forces in decades.
They staged the ambush near the Algerian border at a time of rising political turmoil in Tunisia, which has seen large protests against the moderate Islamist-led government.
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