TUNIS, Tunisia - Military leaders from Europe, Africa, and the United States as well as several regional and international organizations completed a three-day Senior Leadership Symposium (SLS) as a continuation of exercise Phoenix Express (PE22) in Tunis, Tunisia, July 18-20, 2022...

U.S. Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (NMCB 133) and Tunisian Navy engineers broke ground on the Phoenix Express 2022 (PE22) Engineer Civic Action Project (ENCAP) in Bizerte, Tunisia on June 3, 2022. The combined PE22 military engineer team will construct a new 130...

BIZERTE, Tunisia - U.S. Marines, assigned to Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe / 2d Marine Division (TF-61/2) conducted a joint casualty evacuation drill with Tunisian armed forces to practice horizontal and vertical hoisting from a target vessel to a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB)...

TUNIS, Tunisia - Exercise Phoenix Express 2022, the 17th iteration of the North African maritime exercise, takes place May 23 – June 3, 2022, in Tunis, Tunisia, and throughout the Mediterranean Sea...

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), ships from Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 8 and the Tunisian Navy vessels Hannon (612) and Tunis (502) conducted multiple tactical operations to enhance maritime security and increase interoperability between the two navies, December 20-21, 2021...

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) and Tunisian Navy Offshore Patrol Vessels TNS Jugurtha (P610) and TNS Carthage (P503), conducted multiple tactical operations to enhance maritime security and increase interoperability between the two...

TUNIS, Tunisia - Military leaders from across Europe, Africa, and the United States as well as several regional and international organizations completed a three-day Senior Leadership Symposium (SLS) as a continuation of exercise Phoenix Express (PE21) in Tunis, Tunisia, Sept. 27-29, 2021...

TABARKA, Tunisia - U.S. Navy Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 11 (NMCB11) and U.S. Marine Corps Engineers assigned to the Eight Engineer Support Battalion (8th ESB) are working with Tunisian engineers and health officials to construct a new seven meter by eighteen-meter...

EL AOUINA, Tunisia - U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa (NAVAF) Director of maritime partnership program, Rear Adm. Jeffrey S. Spivey joined Tunisian Minister of Defense Brahim Bertegi, Read Adm. Kevin Jones from U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Donald Blome in marking...

TUNIS, Tunisia - Allied and partner navies participating in exercise Phoenix Express 2021 got underway from Tunis, Tunisia, for the start of the at-sea portion of the multinational North African maritime exercise in the Mediterranean Sea on May 22, 2021...