TUNIS - A wanted militant wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in the Tunisian capital after being surrounded by police, the government said on Wednesday, but there were no other casualties.
The third such incident within a week comes months (...)
TUNIS — At least 50 migrants drowned on Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the United Nations migration agency said.
The state-run Tunis Afrique Presse (...)
TUNIS — Tunisia raised the minimum wage for industrial and farm workers as well as pensions for hundreds of thousands of private-sector retirees by 6.5 percent on Wednesday in a move to defuse discontent over economic hardships.
Thousands protested (...)
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 (...)
