
Tunisia security blocks salafi conference, 1 dead
Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that ...

Confrontation looms as Tunisia moves on salafis
Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing ...

Jihadi peril makes its way to Tunisia
The hunt for al-Qaida-linked militants in a mountainous region near Tunisia's borders with Algeria in recent days has raised alarm that the birthplace ...

Jews ease back into Tunisia for famed pilgrimage
Under a bright Mediterranean sun Saturday, Jews whose forebears once thronged Tunisia are trekking to a celebrated synagogue under the protection of ...
Billions taken by Tunisia ex-dictator missing
Officials trying to right Tunisia's ailing economy shouldn't count on an estimated $20 billion still to be recovered from the family of the deposed ...
Tunisian ex-dictator's brother-in-law dies
The imprisoned brother-in-law of Tunisia's ousted dictator has died after attempts to operate on a brain tumor, a prison official said Friday.

GI's WikiLeaks admission energizes his supporters
While it may be a curious legal strategy, an Army private's decision to admit in court that he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to ...

Tunisia Islamist party chooses new prime minister
Tunisia's ruling Islamist party named an interior minister seen as a conservative loyalist to form a new government Friday, in a signal the party is ...

Is Tunisia falling apart? Here's what's going on
Tunisia now has no prime minister and is facing its worst crisis since it kicked off the Arab Spring. Here's a look at the turmoil rocking this ...

Thousands in Tunisia rally behind Islamist party
Thousands of supporters of the ruling Islamist party, waving banners and chanting, marched Saturday in the capital in response to rising criticism ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tunisian leader fears that clashes could spread
The army moved into a southwestern Tunisian town, an official and witnesses said Friday, the fourth day of protests that have injured more than 300 ...

Tunisian PM slams those behind recent riots
Tunisia's prime minister accused opposition parties and unions Thursday of provoking three days of violent clashes and pleaded for patience while the ...
Riots injure 177 in central Tunisian town
A strike in a low income region of Tunisia has degenerated into a second day of clashes between police and protesters, leaving 177 people injured, ...