Over 50 dead as Tunisia foils 'emirate' bid on Libya border

Tunisian forces repelled a jihadist assault Monday on a town near the Libyan border, killing 36 assailants in what authorities said was a thwarted effort to establish an Islamic emirate. Eleven members of the security forces and seven civilians were also killed in Ben Guerdane in what President Beji Caid Essebsi condemned as an "unprecedented" jihadist attack. Prime Minister Habib Essid, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group, said the operation's aim had been to create a "Daes