{"id":71686,"date":"2016-06-27T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=38c3bd77d78bfde7ae9fd21a0140ef4d"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:15:04","slug":"news-story-uk-armed-forces-help-tunisian-forces-fight-violent-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71686","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK Armed Forces help Tunisian forces fight violent extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The extension of the in-country team underlines the UK\u2019s support against the threat posed by extremists, Michael Fallon has said, with Tunisia a frontline state in the fight against Daesh.<\/p>\n<p>The small team, comprising counter-IED and training specialists, deployed in March last year. They have been instrumental, as part of a multinational team, in bringing structure and clarity to training at the Explosive Ordnance Device (EOD) School in Tunisia, helping transform it into a specialist centre offering 14 different courses.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to extend will enable British personnel to help the Tunisian Security Forces reach international standards of capability and achieve self-sufficiency in training.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the UK will provide three specialist training courses to the Tunisia National Guard Commando this summer, to help them deal with internal and external threats.<\/p>\n<p>The month-long training, which stems from a request made by the National Guard, will focus on medical training, small boat handling and security operations training and will create a cadre of instructors to further cascade training within the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The commitments come as Britain marks the one-year anniversary of the terror attack in Sousse in which 38 people were killed, including 30 Britons.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This support will help our ally Tunisia to protect innocent civilians from terrorism. It underlines our determination to defeat Daesh and our commitment to security in the region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK military support to counter-IED training in Tunisia has been extended for an additional year, the Defence Secretary has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}