Tunisian presidential candidates began campaigning on Monday for the Sept. 15 election against a backdrop of economic troubles and a militant shooting that underlined the challenges facing the only democracy to emerge from the 2011 Arab (...)
Activists are warning of a potential "thirst uprising" in Tunisia following protests over severe water shortages after one of the North African nation's driest summers on record.
Residents in the interior are suffering long water supply cuts, (...)
TUNISIA is building a wall, part-rampart and ditch and part-fence along its entire 460-km frontier with its eastern neighbor Libya.
This major undertaking, due to be finished by the end of the year, is designed to stop the flow of terrorists to and (...)
TUNIS — Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against militants on Sunday, hours after the government said its forces had killed nine members of a group suspected of carrying out this month's deadly Bardo (...)
TUNIS — Tunisia's prime minister says a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations. State news agency TAP cites Prime Minister Habib Essid as saying that Khaled Chaieb, also known as (...)
TUNIS — Tunisia arrested 32 militants, some of them returning from fighting in Syria, who planned “spectacular” attacks, officials said on Saturday.
News of the arrests came one day after a secular-Islamist coalition Cabinet headed by Prime Minister (...)
TUNIS, Tunisia – The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by (...)
A hospital official says a second man has set himself on fire in Tunisia, two days after a similar case.
Hedia Khemiri of the Bougatfa hospital says 50-year-old Daoud Ben Mohamed poured gasoline and then ignited himself Saturday in front of Bizerte (...)
TUNIS: Tunisia's new government, faced with violent street protests for retaining members of the deposed president's cabinet, offered a blanket amnesty to all political groups including the banned opposition and also declared three days of national (...)
A Tunisian woman's claim of being
pregnant with 12 babies is a farce, AP cited a health official as saying
today.
Dr. Mongi Hamrouni, head of the ministry's public health
department, said he was «more than 99 percent» sure the
woman claiming to (...)
The Tunisian city of Gafsa, in the southern part of the country, is currently hosting a book fair in which publishers
from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and France are taking part.
The fair, which lasts until January 4, (...)
