Germany plans to help militarily Jordan, Tunisia in their fight against Daesh

Germany plans to allocate funds to Jordan and Tunisia for the purchase of armored vehicles needed to defend the borders from Islamic State (ISIL, also known as Daesh), Der Spiegel reports.

Jordan will receive 25 million euros ($28.5 million) for the purchase of Marder infantry fighting vehicles to protect its borders with Syria, while Tunisia will get at least 10 million euros ($11 million), the German news magazine said on Friday.

Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, with government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad fighting numerous opposition factions and extremist groups, such as Daesh.

Daesh, outlawed in a range of countries including Russia, ceased vast areas in Iraq and Syria in 2014. The group is notorious for its human rights atrocities and a number of major terrorist attacks, such as the ones carried out in Paris and Brussels.Daesh, as well as another jihadist group, Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Nusra Front), is not part of the US-Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into force across Syria on February 27.

Violence in Syria has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Many of them are headed for Europe, which is currently dealing with a major refugee crisis.

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