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Aidan. the national security council issued a statement urging all parties to end military actions and return to political dialogue to resolve their differences. now at least a dozen of the 23 people killed this week at the museum in tunisia were tourists. four italians three french citizens two spaniard among the dead. some still uni identified in a morgue. a march against terrorism. authorities arrested nine people in connection with the attacks, which isis claimed responsibility for. phil black has more from a witness to the massacre and from the family of one suspect. >> reporter: these ...

70 syrian soldiers killed in attacks launched by isis east of homs monitoring the civil war, the assault began on wednesday. the group also says isis suffered casual tifftyies but did not provide a number. tunisian officials say two of the men who carried out the attack on the country's museum had training -- our correspondent covered libya over the past few years and is live in baghdad. good to see you. we've just said you've covered libya extensively over the years. let me ask you this -- when you heard that the two men behind the tunisia attacks had weapons training in libya did that spri...

In the past they have been known to have a limited capability in yemen. dozens perhaps, only pledging allegiance to the isis leader in northern iraq and northern syria at the moment but the potential they found the capability to carry out a mass scale attack like this have many deeply concerned. the u.s. has closed its embassy, struggling in its fight against al qaeda there, the notion that perhaps isis are slowly using that instability to find another place to call home. we'll be deeply concerning to those who also don't want to see further sectarian violence inside yemen. many worried in yem...

Relations at the london school of economics and author of a book concerning the arab world. thank you for speaking to us this morning. we've shown two pieces on the ground. one from libya, one perspective from tunisia. both of those attacks that we've seen there claimed responsibility from isis. my first question to you is -- do we know if this is isis? they said it's claiming responsibility. is there proof this could be them and if it is them what does this say about the reach, the ground they're gaining? >> the first point i would say to your viewers that we should not buy the claims of daes...

For attacks, too, and we've seen isis do that, which is a major concern for the international community, and we've been hearing more and more about this because over the past few months we have seen the emergence of this isis presence in libya with a number of groups in the three different provinces of libya pledging allegiance to isis and also carrying out really high-profile attacks including that attack in january on the five-star corinthia hotel in tripoli, and a horrific beheading of more than 20 egyptian christians. so a lot of concern about this rise of isis and the fact, isa, it's not ...