Tunisia

While the Tunisian political scene has recently garnered praise and attention for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, it has yet to win any prizes for establishing a thriving and...

It is now five years since the ouster of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's long-time dictator and the first of the Arab despots to be successfully challenged and toppled...

As the flames ignited from the dusty town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia spread from one Arab country to another, it seemed as if Arabs had finally emerged...

The presence of the Head of Ennahda Movement Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi at the opening ceremony of the Nidaa Tounes conference did not go unnoticed but did go without causing...

Five years have passed since the youth took to the streets in protest against social conditions in Arab countries. In doing so, they broke the barriers of fear and...

Two female MPs of the parliamentary bloc of Nidaa Tounes resigned from the party on Monday, bringing the number of those who have resigned to 21 members out of...

Tunisia’s ruling Nidaa Tounes party on Saturday held its first general conference following the resignation of the party’s Secretary-General Mohsen Marzouk and several MPs. The conference which concluded yesterday...

Tunisian protesters in the southern province of Tataouine yesterday blocked the road leading to the Thuhayba-Wazan border crossing with Libya, demanding authorities allow them to do business with their...

The outgoing Secretary-General of the ruling Nidaa Tounes party, Mohsen Marzouk, said yesterday that he will announce a new political project within the next four days. Also read:  Al-Marzouki...

Prominent Tunisian writer and academic Amel Grami was banned and deported upon her arrival to Cairo airport on Sunday. Grami was scheduled to participate in a three-day seminar organised...

Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda Party has organised local conferences across the country to elect representatives to attend the party’s 10th national conference. As many as 41 local conferences were held...

The president of Tunisia pledged on Thursday to make 2016 a year to reinforce democracy after a year of “real democratic transition” in 2015, Quds Press has reported. He...

A Tunisian court sentenced to death three men on Wednesday accused of killing a member of Tunisia’s national security earlier this year. Assistant Prosecutor Mohammed bin Khalifa told Anadolu...

Controversial revolutionary Imed Dghij claims that his primary goals for Tunisia are equality and dignity, which is why he aims to increase pressure on the government ahead of the...

More than 600 Tunisian Jihadists have returned to their homes after fighting in Syria, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on Friday. Speaking to journalists during a conference...

Tunisia’s Interior Minister, Mohammed Najem Gharsalli, has revealed that security forces have foiled 15 terrorist operations since the summer beach attack in Sousse, in which 38 foreign tourists were...

As many as 22 Tunisian MPs resigned from the main party in the ruling bloc on Monday in protest against its “marginalisation of the party project”. The resignations from...

The founder of Tunisia’s Nidaa Tounes political party, Mohsen Marzouk, announced his resignation as its secretary general on Sunday. He added that he might form a new party. In...

As Tunisia celebrates five years since the beginning of the revolution, its birthplace continues to be a symbol of the country's hardship. On 17 December a few hundred of...

Some 20,600 complaints have been filed to Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission since it opened a year ago, its chairperson revealed yesterday. “The commission and its offices have received...

The Tunisian security services dismantled as many as 1,000 terrorist cells in 2015, an official at the Ministry of Interior said yesterday. Ministry spokesman Walid Louguini said the terrorist...

The head of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi said Nidaa Tounes’s internal differences cannot change their position in government because that’s been “determined by elections”. “The internal difference...

Two Tunisan lawyers, Abderraouf Ayadi and Najat Al-Obeidi, are to face a military investigating judge on 17 December for accusing a security official of torturing their clients. In their...

Former Tunisian President Moncef El-Marzouki is to establish a new political party which would include several “important” figures, Adnan Monassar, senior leader in Al-Marzouki's Citizen People Movement told Al-Araby...

Amnesty International yesterday launched an awareness campaign aimed at ending violence against women in Tunisia. Country director Lotfi Azzouz said at a press conference that the campaign aims to...

The president of the Ibn Rushd Forum for Maghreb Studies in Tunisia has said that the country only has two options, following the attack on a government bus in...

Tunisia has announced that it will be closing its border with Libya for 15 days after a bus bombing in the capital Tunis killed 15 members of the presidential...

Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement has called for an immediate national conference on combatting terrorism in light of the terrorism attack that occurred yesterday in the country’s capital. In a statement...

The Tunisian security services informed former President Mohamed Moncef Marzouki on Monday that he is the target of a terrorist plot. A former adviser used social media to reveal...

The head of the Tunisia Centre for Strategic Studies, Dr Mokhtar Zaghdoud, has warned that the escalation of conflict between the two camps within the Nidaa Tounes party could...

The Tunisian Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that clashes broke out between the army forces and an Al-Qaeda affiliate group in the Kasserine province on the border with Algeria....

The Popular Front bloc in the Tunisian Parliament submitted a legislative initiative on Wednesday for a draft law to criminalise the normalisation of relations with Israel. According to Ahmad...