The Latest Breaking News from Tunis

Tunisian President Kais Saied, who last year grabbed power in what critics labelled a coup, has now asked voters for their political views -- but days before the online poll closes, fewer than six percent had taken part. Most people in the small North African country are more concerned with…

Police have broken up a militant cell linked to ISIS in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Police said the cell was planning attacks with explosives and trying to recruit young people, according to the ministry statement. In November, police shot and wounded an…

As Tunisia's president prepares to rewrite the constitution after dismissing parliament last year and ruling by decree, he has called for citizens' input by setting up a voluntary multiple-choice questionnaire online.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda party said on Facebook that its senior official, Noureddine Bhairi, was freed from house arrest early on Tuesday. The Tunisian Interior Ministry had lifted the house arrest order against Bhairi, the state news agency (TAP) reported late on Monday. Bhairi was placed under house arrest due…

Tunisia is investigating press reports claiming that a number of its nationals held in Ukrainian prisons were forcibly recruited to join the fighting against Russia in the Ukraine war, a source in the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said Monday. “Tunisian authorities contacted Ukrainian ambassador in Tunisia (Volodymyr Khomanets) to request information…

Tunisia's president on Monday appointed a temporary replacement for the country's top judicial council, a body he dissolved last month in what his opponents called a move to consolidate his power. President Kais Saied seized executive authority last year and last month broke up the top supreme judicial council which…

Tunisian president Kais Saied appointed on Monday members of a temporary supreme judicial council, a presidency statement said, after he last month dissolved the council, one of the last remaining institutions in the country able to work independently of him.

Tunisia's interior ministry said on Saturday that security forces had foiled a planned terrorist attack and arrested a female militant suspected of involvement. In a statement, the ministry said investigators believed the woman had planned to kidnap the children of some members of the security forces and the military to…

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