Tunisia

The results of a poll conducted at the University of Tunis published on Thursday have revealed that nearly 1,300 Tunisian students are currently involved in jihadist organisations outside Tunisia....

Tunisia has become a non-NATO ally of the United States. This is regarded as one of the most important results of President Beji Caid Essebsi's 48-hour visit to Washington....

Tunisia's Prime Minister, Habib Essid reiterated his government's decision to cut down the salaries of public employees on strike either as part of a union or on individual base....

Representatives of the two main Libyan rival militias ended a series of meetings that took place in Tunis, Quds Press reported credible Libyan and Tunisian sources on Friday. These...

US President Barack Obama announced yesterday his intention to designate Tunisia as a major non-NATO ally, citing democratic reforms in the country. The upgraded status would put the level...

Staff in all public hospitals in Tunisia are taking part in a three-day strike which started on Wednesday, Quds Press reports. A health ministry official said that it had...

A Tunisian human rights organisation said yesterday that the practice of torture continues in Tunisian prisons after the January 2011 revolution but local authorities insist on denying its existence....

Tunisia's Ennahda movement has denounced the death sentences handed down by Egypt against 122 defendants, including former President Mohamed Morsi, Anadolu has reported. The Islamist party called on the...

Since the terrorist attack targeting the Bardo Museum there has been an increase in media reports claiming that Tunisia is becoming the next Islamic State (IS) conquest. Judging from...

Teachers in Tunisia have gone on a two-day general strike on Tuesday following their failure to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Education regarding their financial and professional...

Amnesty International has called on Tunisia and Egypt to keep their borders open and provide safe haven to any persons fleeing violence and persecution in Libya. In a new...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi is spearheading efforts to resolve Libya's political crisis, calling for general elections later this year, Quds Press has reported. The news agency quoted Tunisian...

From female Islamist activist fighting under repression to a parliamentarian standing up for women's rights, Middle East Monitor speaks to Yamina Zoghlami. "The fight for women's rights continues," explains...

Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche yesterday stressed on the importance of bolstering cooperation with Turkey, particularly with regards to military and security, the Anadolu Agency reported. During a meeting...

The smuggling of migrants from Africa to Europe generates $150 million annually to its perpetrators, a senior UN official revealed yesterday. In a press conference held at the United...

Tunisia's Ennahda movement has called for respecting the principles of the Constitution with regard to rights and freedom as important gains of 2011's revolution that overthrew Zine El-Abidine Ben...

Tunisia's Secretary of State for Arab and African Affairs, Al-Tohamme Abdouly, said on Thursday that the way that his country was informed about the two Tunisian journalists killed in...

The Tunisian judiciary recently decided to try senior security officials from the Ben Ali regime in a case relating to the torture and abuse of revolutionaries during the 2011...

The leader of Tunisia's Ennahda movement, Rashid Al-Ghannouchi, has defended the right of the country's ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family to retain Tunisian passports,...

Tunisia's Defence Ministry said today that ten "terrorists" and three army troops have been killed in clashes in the western part of the country. Ministry spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Belhassen...

Leader of Tunisia's Ennahda movement, Rashid Ghannouchi said that liberal parties in Egypt and Tunisia "did not accept having others in power, and they shouldn't exclude them from participating"....

Tunisian Authorities have banned more than 12,000 Tunisians from travelling to tension spots in Iraq, Libya and Syria in the last two years, Anadolu reported on Friday. In parliament,...

No one expected, not even in their worst of nightmares, that the Arab revolution and change movement would end the way it has ended. In all the countries of...

The Bardo attack indicates that Tunisia will not be able to remain immune to Libya's ongoing conflict where two rival governments fight for power and the Islamic State is...

Tunisia's Ennahda Party has called on Egypt to cancel the death sentences against opponents of the regime in Cairo, including members and officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Quds Press...

Two weeks after Tunisia's deadly Bardo attacks, vendors in Hammamet's souks lay out brightly coloured pots and cotton scarves under the March sunshine. It's hard to believe this seaside...

The Tunisian Ennahda (Renaissance) Movement has revealed that its president, Shaikh Rashid Ghannouchi, met with a delegation from the US state department last Friday. The agenda for the meeting...

The United States will double its security aid to Tunisia in 2016 in order to boost the North African country's ability to combat terrorism, a senior US official said...

Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche said the Libyan military plane that penetrated into Tunisian airspace on Wednesday belongs to Khalifa Haftar's forces. Baccouche said during a news conference in...

On the morning of 18 March, Yassine Labidi woke up in his middle-class home in Kech el Ghaba, a suburb of Tunis. Like every other morning he had breakfast...

Tunisian security agencies have killed eight militants, including the suspected chief architect of a recent deadly attack on Tunis' Bardo Museum, in the southern province of Gafsa, an Interior...

The Tunisian foreign ministry stressed on Thursday the importance of an 'Arab solution' to the Yemen crisis, through the Riyadh dialogue and without foreign intervention. "Tunisia expresses its deep...