FOR years, trains ferried millions of dollars in phosphate past Nouredine Ezzidine's Tunisian town, where young men like him idle their days in cafes over cigarettes and coffee, desperate for work.
After seven years with no job, the mechanics (...)
AFTER a US airstrike killed a Tunisian militant commander in western Libya in late February, dozens of Daesh (the so-called IS) fighters sneaked across the border into Tunisia and attacked an army barracks and police bases in the town of Ben (...)
and Tarek Amara
Four days after militants shot dead 21 tourists in Tunisia's Bardo museum last year, police rounded up dozens of people suspected of links with the gunmen.
One of the men, a laborer, was arrested in his Tunis home. The man, who has (...)
and Ahmed Elumami
When Daesh (the so-called IS) militants attacked a perimeter gate guarding Libya's Es Sider oil terminal this month, they sent gunmen to kill guards before attempting to detonate a car bomb in a bid to breach the port's (...)
Reuters
IN the weeks before Iraqi Kurdistan revealed that Exxon Mobil had signed up to explore for oil there, executives at rival Shell faced a dilemma over whether or not to join the US oil major in its foray north and risk angering (...)
Reuters
IN the weeks before Iraqi Kurdistan revealed that Exxon Mobil had signed up to explore for oil there, executives at rival Shell faced a dilemma over whether or not to join the US oil major in its foray north and risk angering Baghdad.
The (...)