On 25 July, Tunisian President Kais Saied took several decisions that marked a turning point in Tunisian politics after confrontations over the last seven months with prime minister Hichem Mechichi and speaker of parliament and leader of the Ennahda (...)
Riots and violent clashes between Tunisian police and protesters broke out on Sunday in the capital Tunis and at least 15 cities for the second consecutive day, as the country faces an unprecedented economic crisis.
The army deployed to the cities (...)
There was fierce competition between the secularist Nidaa Tounes and the Islamist Ennahda Party in Tunisia's first municipal elections since 2011, and on Sunday evening Ennahda announced that it was ahead of its rival in polls seen as a major step (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
Tunisian authorities arrested another 150 people including local opposition leaders on Friday, bringing the total detained close to 800 in response to demonstrations this week against price and tax rises.
Protests, some violent, flared across (...)
The first edition of the Institut du Monde arabe's biannual showcase of contemporary photography from the Arab world took place two years ago, creating a new international venue for photographers from across the Arab world as well as non-Arab (...)
In Tatatouine province in Tunisia's southern Sahara, around 1,000 protesters living in a makeshift campsite are threatening to blockade roads used by foreign companies to access nearby gas and oilfields.
They want a larger slice of the gas proceeds (...)
Hundreds of protesters demanding jobs clashed with police in several Tunisian towns on Saturday, blocking the route of visiting President Beji Caid Essebsi in one region, on the sixth anniversary of the country's revolution.
Local residents said (...)
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 (...)
Tunisia's interior minister said security forces had almost wiped out an Islamist militant group linked to al Qaeda during a crackdown launched after two deadly attacks on tourists.
Clashes last week killed leaders, including two veteran Algerian (...)
Britain's advice that tourists should leave Tunisia because of the risk of another terror attack will "have repercussions", the country's prime minister has said.
Habib Essid said he would telephone David Cameron on Friday to respond to Foreign (...)
Tunisian forces killed nine militants during a raid in a southern region as part of crackdown following the attack on the Tunis Bardo museum that targeted foreign tourists, an interior ministry official said on Sunday.
The operations late on (...)
Tunisian authorities say they have killed one of the militants linked to the attack on a museum earlier this month in which 21 tourists died.
Lokman Abu Sakhra was one of nine armed militants killed in a raid on Saturday, the government says.
A (...)
Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist 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 (...)
Tunisian forces killed nine militants during a raid in a southern region as part of crackdown following the attack on the Tunis Bardo museum that targeted foreign tourists, an interior ministry official said on Sunday.
The operations late on (...)
Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist 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 (...)
Tunisia arrested 32 militant Islamists, 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 (...)
Tunisia arrested 32 militant Islamists, 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 (...)
Tunisia arrested 32 militant Islamists, 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 (...)
Reuters – One man was shot dead in clashes in a Tunisian city near the Algerian border late on Friday after protesters tried to storm a customs office in one of several demonstrations across the country.
Scattered protests over economic hardships (...)
'I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence'
– John Lennon
Hardly a week now goes by in Tunisia without some form of violence. A protest gone awry, an assassination, an exchange of gunfire, a confiscation of a (...)
President Obama made it clear that, unlike Bush, he was not interested in imposing a change in governance systems from outside. Obama's senior Middle East adviser was Dennis Ross, a staunch realist. Even those who have a strong position on human (...)
'Women in the New Egypt': Short Films
Bahiya,by Mavie Maher, is an introspective look at the turmoil one teacher goes through after one of her students dies in a violent attack. Mina Magdy'sIbn Bnoot(Male Virgin) is a dark comedy exploring how life (...)
Yalaan Bu El Fosfate details a revolt carried out by inhabitants of a Tunisian company town dependent on phosphate extraction against unsafe working conditions and government-supported corruption. The response from the Ben Ali regime was brutal, yet (...)
Tunisian police fired teargas late on Saturday to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the country's revolution and hometown of slain secular opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, witnesses said.
Tensions have run (...)