Journalists and activists protested on Tuesday outside Tunisia’s parliament against a proposed law to shake up the media sector by removing a requirement for television and radio stations to...

Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said on Sunday that his country is undergoing a critical financial situation as a result of the ongoing stifling crisis which has led to...

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi on Monday gave regional governors the power to order curfews starting from Tuesday to combat the coronavirus pandemic, his office said. His statement clarified...

Tunisia has celebrated the 57th anniversary of Evacuation Day, the day that the last French soldier left the country on 15 October, 1963. France occupied Tunisia in 1881, as...

Tunisia on Thursday announced that it will be launching its first satellite on the 65th Independence anniversary in March next year, local media reported, Anadolu Agency reported. “All tests were completed...

Tunisian authorities on Monday recovered the bodies of 13 migrants, a day after their boat sank off the country’s coast. Nine other persons are still missing, the spokesman for the courts...

The governor of Tunisia’s Kasserine province was sacked on Tuesday following protests over the death of a local resident during the demolition of his unlicensed store, reports Anadolu Agency....

Dozens of angry protesters in the city set fire to tyres and blocked major roads according to local news sources

The UN Mission in Libya has announced that the country’s political and military rivals will hold direct talks early next month. Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and...

Tunisia may have maintained its status as “the icon of the Arab Spring” over the past decade, but the recent increase in violent crime across the country has sparked...

A London-based newspaper has apologised to the Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament, Rached Ghannouchi, for publishing “false allegations” against him more than a year ago, Anadolu has reported. In...

Tunisian divers have discovered an almost intact World War 1 era French submarine, the Ariane, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat in 1917. The Ariane was spotted last...

In response to the protests in Tunisia against the draft law to protect police officers and security forces, parliament has postponed further consideration of the bill. The protesters include...

Tunisian Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi, announced the dismissal of Culture Minister, Walid Al-Zaidi, due to his refusal to implement the instructions for measures to confront coronavirus. Hours before his dismissal, Al-Zaidi delivered a speech...

A German-Tunisian Daesh widow who managed to return to Europe and work as a translator in Hamburg has been jailed in Germany for three and a half years over her membership...

Tunisian authorities will ban all gatherings and reduce working hours for employees in the public sector in order to stop the rapid spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Hichem...

Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach the fourth round of the French Open as she beat eighth seed Aryna Sabalenka on Saturday, reports Reuters. The...

“It was one humiliation too many,” is how artist Nadia Khiari recalls the speech of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on 13 January 2011, following the street...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Monday spoke about reactivating the death penalty after executions were suspended in the country for nearly 29 years. Saied’s announcement came after a meeting...

US Defence Secretary Mark Esper will this week visit a number of countries in the Maghreb, on a tour that aims to confirm Washington’s commitment to the region’s security....

The Libyan African Aviation Holding Company has announced that the authorities in Tripoli and their counterparts in Tunis will reopen the air corridor between the two countries next month....

Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Tunisia Khalifa Atwan apologised to President of the Republic Kais Saied and his cabinet for not inviting them to the celebration of...

Tunisia has decided to import phosphates for the first time despite being the world’s fifth largest producer of the substances, Russia Today has reported. “We have had to import...

Health authorities in Tunisia and Bahrain confirmed additional fatalities due to the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, Anadolu reports. The Tunisian Health Ministry said 17 people had died from COVID-19,...

The Israelis are looking to the future, following the first stage with Abu Dhabi and Manama, to Mecca and Rabat. Although the Saudis did not sign a peace agreement...

The issue of normalisation with Israel has dominated the Tunisian presidential election debate and become a public concern. It was also a key factor in the electoral run off...

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum declared his country’s refusal to supply arms to Libya, pointing out that dialogue between the Libyan parties is the only solution to the crisis....

Tunisia yesterday announced that it had arrested seven people with links to perpetrators of a terrorist attack that took place in Sousse on Sunday. A police officer was killed and another...

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement yesterday strongly condemned the terrorist attack that took place in Sousse governorate and those behind it. This came after police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected...

Police in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in the coastal city of Sousse on Sunday, Reuters...

Tunisia’s new Prime Minister, Hichem Mechichi, stressed the need to stop the country’s “economic bleeding” as his government officially assumed its duties on Thursday. Mechichi is the seventh prime...

Ammar Al-Ziben, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails, has participated in an international literary competition held in Tunis, Shehab news agency reported yesterday. Al-Ziben has been held by Israel since 1998...