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Tourine ambush
Part of Insurgency in the Maghreb
LocationTourine, Mauritania
DateSeptember 14–15, 2008
Target Mauritanian Army
Victims12 captured and executed
PerpetratorsTourine ambush AQIM
  • Abdelhamid Abou Zeid
  • Djamel Okacha

The Tourine ambush, also known as the Tourine massacre, was one of the September 14, 2008, jihadists from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) ambushed Mauritanian soldiers in the village of Tourine, near Zouérat, Mauritania. The ambush was the first major attack by AQIM during the Insurgency in the Sahel, and sparked major changes in the Mauritanian military.[1]

  1. ^ "How has Mauritania managed to stave off terror attacks? | ISS Africa". issafrica.org. Retrieved 2024-04-01.

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