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Tunisians head abroad to perform jihad
The cradle of the Arab Spring is increasingly looking like the birthplace of jihadists. Long before Tunisia ousted its dictator and inspired the North ...
Tunisia Islamist leader says unity gov't imminent
An agreement is imminent on a new national unity government for Tunisia to resolve the simmering political crisis brought on by the assassination of ...
Tunisia: President's party quits government
Tunisia's political crisis entered a new phase Sunday with an announcement that Cabinet ministers of the president's own party are quitting the ...
Tunisian PM says new Cabinet needed during crisis
Tunisia's Islamist prime minister said Saturday that he will resign if his proposal to appoint a nonpolitical Cabinet by mid-week is rejected.
Fear of assassinations haunt Egypt opposition
Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt's liberal opposition are ...
Tunisia buries politician as crisis deepens
The funeral of an assassinated leftist politician drew hundreds of thousands of mourners chanting anti-government slogans to the Tunisian capital ...
Protests turn to street clashes across Egypt
Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while ...
Tunisia Islamists say no new gov't as crisis grows
Tunisia sank deeper into political crisis Thursday, as the ruling Islamist party rejected its own prime minister's decision to replace the government ...
After fatwas, security hiked for Egypt opposition
One hardline Muslim cleric on an Egyptian TV station justified sexual assaults on women protesters. Others issued religious edicts saying opposition ...
Tunisia to shake-up government after assassination
Shaken by the assassination of a prominent leftist opposition leader that unleashed major protests, Tunisia's prime minister announced Wednesday that ...
Egypt opposition leader warns over death edict
Egypt's most prominent opposition leader criticized the Islamist government on Wednesday for its silence over a Muslim cleric's edict calling for the ...
Tunisia beefs up security at desert oil sites
Tunisia is reinforcing the security around its oil and gas facilities in this North African country's southern deserts following an attack in Algeria, ...
In Davos, examining the Arab Spring's mixed bag
The convulsions of the Arab world are taking center stage at this year's World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, where leaders and experts are much ...
Iraqi protester tries to set himself on fire
A demonstrator tried to set himself on fire in the north of Iraq Sunday in what is thought to be the first attempted self-immolation since ...
Violence plagues Tunisia's politics 2 years later
Two years after the revolution that overthrew an authoritarian president and started the Arab Spring, Tunisia is struggling with high unemployment and ...
Tunisian prosecutors opposed freeing Libya suspect
Tunisia's attorney general's office opposed the recent release of one of the only people in custody for the September attack on the U.S.
Lawyer: Tunisian suspect in Libya attack freed
Tunisian authorities released one of the only men in custody for alleged links to September's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city ...
Tunisian FM accused in 'Sheraton-gate' scandal
Tunisia's foreign minister has been accused by a blogger of misusing public funds in a growing national scandal involving issues of government ...
North African nations take different reform routes
Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ...
Ex-Tunisian dictator's property goes under hammer
Tunisian authorities are putting property confiscated from ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali up for auction. That includes a pair of ...
FBI question Benghazi consulate attack suspect
After months of asking, agents from the FBI questioned the only known suspect in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed ...
Unrest marks Tunisia revolution anniversary event
Protesters threw stones and tomatoes and booed Tunisian leaders Monday at a ceremony marking two years since the start of an uprising that changed ...
Tunisian national strike averted after deal
Tunisia's government has reached an agreement with the country's leading labor union to avoid a nationwide strike over economic woes and power ...
Riots hint at potential chaos in Tunisia's future
Five days of riots last week in a town in Tunisia's impoverished interior wounded hundreds of people and deepened the rift between the two most ...
Libya attack suspect wants lawyers at FBI parley
One of the only known suspects held in the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya wants any interrogation by the FBI to take place in a Tunisian judge's ...