ISIL Insurgency in TunisiaTunisia · 2015–2022“A thread from the great cord of two hundred and fifty. Hold it while I speak.”Tunisia made the Arab Spring's only democracy, and paid a bitter tithe for it. In one year gunmen struck the Bardo museum and a Sousse beach, hunting tourists; a town on the Libyan border, Ben Guerdane, beat off an attempted Islamic State seizure with its own townsfolk pointing out the attackers' houses.