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Egypt's Mohamed Salah, front, scores a goal during the African Cup of Nations Group D soccer match between Egypt and Ghana at the Stade de Port-Gentil, Gabon, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

African Cup: Things to know ahead of the quarterfinals

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Goal rush at African Cup as Algeria out, Tunisia through

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Algeria's, Adlane Guedioura, left, is challenged by Tunisia's, Mohamed Amine Ben Amor, during the African Cup of Nations Group B soccer match between Algeria and Tunisia at, Stade de Franceville Stadium, Gabon Thursday Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Senegal cruises, Algeria crashes at African Cup of Nations

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday Jan. 23, 2006 file photo, Zimbabwe's Mwariwari Benjani, center, controls the ball past Senegal's Diawara Souleymane and Beye Amdy, left, during the African Nations Cup Group D soccer match between Senegal and Zimbabwe in Port Said Stadium, Egypt. The African Cup of Nations returns to Gabon for the second time in five years with the kickoff on Saturday Jan. 14, 2017 and the final on Feb. 5. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

African Cup of Nations: A look at Group B

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, photo, Palestinian divorce lawyer Reema Shamasneh poses for a photo in the office of her legal aid center in Ramallah, West Bank. One divorce at a time, the Palestinian lawyer fights for female clients in an Islamic family court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s. Shamasneh, a devout Muslim, believes the laws are the way they are because they were passed by men. She shuns traditional marriage for herself, saying she can take care of herself. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Palestinian lawyer fights for women, one divorce at a time

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, photo, Palestinian divorce lawyer Reema Shamasneh poses for a photo in the office of her legal aid center in Ramallah, West Bank. One divorce at a time, the Palestinian lawyer fights for female clients in an Islamic family court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s. Shamasneh, a devout Muslim, believes the laws are the way they are because they were passed by men. She shuns traditional marriage for herself, saying she can take care of herself. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Palestinian lawyer fights for women, one divorce at a time

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

Tunisia welcomes first cruise ship since fatal museum attack

Associated Press

Tunisian and French officials say Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was not previously known to intelligence services in either nation, although he had a petty criminal record in Nice, where he had been living since about 2005. (Associated Press)

Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, Nice truck attacker, was ‘radicalized very quickly’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Travel Tunisia Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

KHEMAIES JHINAOUI: Tunisia’s interest in a viable Libya

By Khemaies Jhinaoui

People shelter from the gun fire outside a house, in El Aouija, outside Ben Guerdane, 650 km away from Tunis, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Tunisian security forces killed five heavily armed men in an hours-long firefight Wednesday after they crossed into the country from Libya with a larger group. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Tunisia: At least 45 dead in clashes near Libyan border

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

A man walks past the bus that exploded Tuesday in Tunis, Wednesday Nov.25, 2015. Tunisia's president declared a 30-day state of emergency across the country and imposed an overnight curfew for the capital Tuesday after an explosion struck a bus carrying members of the presidential guard, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20 others. (AP Photo)

Islamic State claims responsibility for Tunisia bus bomb

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid speaks with The Associated Press during an interview ahead of a two-day conference in Madrid on combating the type of terrorism targeting foreign tourists that has hit his country twice over the last year, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) ** FILE **

Explosion in Tunisia: Bus carrying presidential guards hit

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 26 2005 file photo, a closed-circuit surveillance cameras, with a Union flag at rear, keeps watch in central London. After four home-grown suicide bombers killed 52 London commuters on July 7, 2005, Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed that Britain would stop at nothing to defeat terrorism. &quot;Let no one be in any doubt,&quot; he said. &quot;The rules of the game are changing.&quot; Since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States four years earlier, Britain had made its anti-terrorism powers among the toughest in the Western world. Now they became tougher still. &quot;What 7/7 did was it made people realize that the threat was internal as well as external,&quot; said David Anderson, Britain's official reviewer of terrorism legislation. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

7/7 spurred tough anti-terror measures some say went too far

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

A Tunisian police officer guards the beach in front of the Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, Sunday, June 28, 2015. Tunisia's top security official says 1,000 extra police are being deployed at tourist sites and beaches in the North African nation. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Tunisia struggles to find balanced response to terror

By Paul Schemm and Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press

Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid, center, conforts a passenger injured in a train crash at Zaghwan hospital, northern Tunisia, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Habib Aissa) ** FILE **

Gunmen kill 27 in attack on Tunisian resort, officials say

Associated Press

Injured people are treated on a Tunisian beach, in Sousse, Friday June 26, 2015. A young man unfurled an umbrella and pulled out a Kalashnikov, opening fire on European sunbathers in an attack that killed at least 28 people at a Tunisian beach resort — one of three deadly attacks from Europe to the Middle East on Friday that followed a call to violence by Islamic State extremists. (Jawhara FM via AP)

Dozens killed in attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France

By Ben Wiacek and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn to the White House from Marine One, Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Washington, as he returns from Connecticut where he delivered the commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy and attended a Democratic National Committee event. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama highlights Tunisia as Arab success story

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Monday, June 23, 2014, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle on the main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

‘Islamist extremists,’ phrase rejected by Obama, embraced by allies

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Tunisian's president Beji Caid Essebsi, left, lays a wreath in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, Sunday March 22, 2015. The two extremist gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before caring out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. (AP Photo/Ali Louati)

Tunisian prime minister fires security chiefs after attack

By Bouazza Ben Bouazza - Associated Press