Human rights and civic associations estimate that some 3,000 Tunisians have gone to Syria to fight with the Free Syrian Army or the Al Nusrah Front; the Interior Ministry says the number is over 500. Islamist rebels in the Jebel Chaambi area, including members of Ansar al Sharia and the Uqba Ibn Nafaa Battalion, are active in terrorist recruitment and training for jihad in Syria and elsewhere.
