Tunisia

Correction: Tunisia-Salafi Crackdown story

4 days ago

Correction: Tunisia-Salafi Crackdown story

Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference

6 days ago

Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the...

Confrontation looms as Tunisia moves on salafis

9 days ago

Confrontation looms as Tunisia moves on salafis

Jihadi peril makes its way to Tunisia

15 days ago

But recent fighting in the Sahel - the arid region just south of the Sahara Desert - has sent jihadi fighters looking for new havens, raising fears that Tunisia is in their sights.

Tunisia PM: no proof Tunisian tied to Libya attack

70 days ago

Larayedh also said Wednesday that U.S.-Tunisian relations are "excellent" even after a separate September attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia by radicals who set fire to part of that facility.

Tunisia forms new government, hopes to end crisis

76 days ago

Tunisia's transition to democracy is being closely watched since its revolution sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.

Tunisia Islamist party chooses new prime minister

91 days ago

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party has chosen its hardline interior minister to form the North African nation's new government, a top official said Friday.

Is Tunisia falling apart? Here's what's going on

92 days ago

Rather than trying to rule alone, like Egypt's Islamists, Tunisia's Ennahda allied with two secular parties amid high hopes.

Tunisia PM resigns after cabinet initiative fails

93 days ago

Tunisia's economy, which relies heavily on exports to Europe as well as tourism, has been battered by the violence in the country and financial crises facing many of its European trading partners.

Tunisia's premier to field new govt or resign

98 days ago

Tunisia's prime minister will continue to oppose his own political party and seek to form a government of technocrats by Saturday to solve the country's crisis or resign, he announced Thursday.

Tunisia Islamist leader says unity gov't imminent

101 days ago

Tunisia Islamist leader says unity gov't imminent

Tunisia: Pressure grows on Islamists to end crisis

103 days ago

Tunisia: Pressure grows on Islamists to end crisis

Tunisia opposition welcomes move for new gov't

106 days ago

Tunisia's opposition parties on Thursday welcomed the government's move to dissolve itself in favor of a caretaker body following the shocking assassination of a leftist politician.

Tunisia renews state of emergency amid terror fear

112 days ago

Tunisia has announced the renewal for another month of the North African country's state of emergency citing armed clashes with militant groups on the borders and internal unrest.

Violence plagues Tunisia's politics 2 years later

130 days ago

Two years after the revolution that overthrew an authoritarian president and started the Arab Spring, Tunisia is struggling with high unemployment and rising violence in its politics.

Tunisia frees lone suspect in Benghazi attacks before FBI, Libyans can question him

135 days ago

Now Harzi walks the streets of Tunisia a free man - facing no consequence for his role in the Benghazi attack.

Tunisia forest camps hid networks with Qaida links

153 days ago

A branch of al-Qaida is active in Algeria and has occasionally crossed into Tunisia, where hardline Islamists are on the rise since the ousting of a secular president in 2011.

Unrest marks Tunisia revolution anniversary event

158 days ago

Tunisia's radical Islamists have since grown increasingly vocal, and disaffected youth stage sporadic protests that sometimes degenerate into violence.

US: Tunisia must respond to youth aspirations

161 days ago

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns visited Tunisia on Thursday as part of the 9th Forum for the Future, and expressed Washington's support for Tunisia's transition to democracy.

2 arrested on Tunisia-Algeria border

166 days ago

The government has expressed concern in recent weeks that the weapons trafficked out of Libya after its uprising could make their way to Tunisia through neighboring Algeria.

Riots hint at potential chaos in Tunisia's future

168 days ago

But the latest tensions in Tunisia are reminiscent of the demonstrations that began there in December 2010, when a poor young fruit seller in the interior town of Sidi Bouzid set himself on fire.