Tunisia

The leader of Ennahda Tunisian Movement, Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, said the Israeli occupation's expectations that the use of force and war to subjugate the Palestinian people is not an...

Former Tunisian Prime Minister, Beji Caid El-Sebsi, 87, yesterday announced that he intends to run for president in the November 23 election, "if he's still alive", Al-Quds news agency...

Tunisia condemned the Israeli military escalation in the Gaza Strip and demanded the Security Council immediately intervene to stop such attacks, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement today....

The Tunisian Court of Appeal upheld a court decision to stop the printing, publication and distribution of the controversial "Black Book" published by the Tunisian presidency, Al-Arabiya news agency...

The Tunisian foreign ministry denounced on Friday "inhumane" acts carried out by Israel against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, a statement has...

Opposition politician Hamma Hammami is holding the current Tunisian government of Mehdi Goma`a, the National Constituent Assembly and the Electoral commission fully responsible for the lack of transparency needed...

The two abducted Tunisian diplomats in Libya this morning arrived in Laaouina military airport in Tunis after being released, Anadolu news agency reported. The Tunisian Foreign Ministry announced, in...

Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said on Monday that 2,400 Tunisians had joined the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Syria, according to Anadolu News...

A senior aide to the Tunisian president yesterday condemned the harsh Israeli campaign against Palestinians, including the kidnapping of more than 20 members of parliament over the last few...

Tunisia's legislative and presidential elections will take place in October and November, the Independent High Electoral Commission (ISIE) announced. Tunisian parties have resolved a longstanding dispute and agreed to...

Political parties in Tunis failed on Wednesday to reach an agreement on whether to hold presidential and parliamentary elections simultaneously or separately, Anadolu news agency has reported. Following a...

By the grace of God, the Ennahda movement is partaking in the celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the press conference on June 6, 1981, during which the establishment...

Tunisia's 2003 anti-terror legislations declare that they may be used against political opponents but when the country faced a revolution it found itself forced to draft a new law...

The former Special Envoy to Syria for the Arab League and the UN Lakhdar Brahimi resigned from his position to draw the world's attention to the Syrian crisis, he...

The leader of Tunisia's Ennahda party, Sheikh Rashid Ghannouchi, confirmed in an interview with Al Hiwar TV that he was visited in his Tunis offices by Sir John Jenkins,...

The counter-revolution in Libya was born with the revolutionary desire to progress from violence and injustice to peace and the restoration of the people's rights. This happened in Egypt...

The Egyptian authorities have sent invitations to major world leaders to attend Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi's inauguration as the new president of Egypt, excluding four countries, Pls48.net news website and...

The board of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly yesterday approved a new law to win over the revolutions' youth, victims and the wounded, by cancelling the trials and prosecutions against...

A number of Tunisian citizens have filed a lawsuit against their country President Moncef Marzouki accusing him of describing Tunisians as "ignorant", AFP reported a Tunisian judicial source as...

Morocco's King Mohamed VI has called for the establishment of "a large, strong and capable" Arab Maghreb Federation. In a speech before the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly on Saturday,...

Tunisia and Morocco signed 23 agreements on Friday in a number of fields. These included cooperation agreements in the fields of security, development, industry, technology, scientific research, education, health...

Participants in the Tunisian national dialogue announced on Friday an agreement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on separate dates. The political parties represented in the Tunisian constituent assembly...

Foreign ministers of countries neighbouring Libya yesterday expressed "grave concern" about the developments in the security situation in the country. In a statement issued following the meeting of the...

A Lebanese court yesterday rejected a request from Tunisia to confiscate funds held in a Lebanese bank account that belongs to the wife of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El...

A young Tunisian man died after being attacked by a swarm of bees in the town of Sidi Thabet in the Ariana Governorate in northern Tunisia. The Secretary General...

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki called on Tuesday for approving Arabic as the main language for all levels of education in his country, according to the news website Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed....

The Tunisian authorities have detained 30 Palestinian refugees at Carthage Airport, including three children under ten years old and four women and young men persecuted by the Syrian regime...

Spokesperson of the Tunisian Defence Ministry Brigadier General Tawfiq Rahmouni denied on Wednesday the presence of any foreign forces on the Tunisian side of the border with Libya. According...

The arrest of blogger Azyz Amami and photographer Sabri Ben Mlouka for the possession and use of marijuana in accordance with Tunisia's notorious Law 52, a legacy of former...

The Nidaa Tounes (Call for Tunisia) Party, the political wing of the Nidaa Tounis Movement, announced Sunday it will hold internal elections in June to elect the party's leaders....

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS At London University's SOAS last Friday, the Middle East Monitor and the Jasmine Foundation had the honour of welcoming three MPs from post-revolutionary Tunisia, who brought with...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Last night the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) hosted Shaykh Rashid Ghanoushi – the previously exiled leader of Al-Nahda Party in Tunisia – for a roundtable meeting in...