The Latest Breaking News from Tunisia

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…

In tonight's edition: Human Rights Watch says that Mali's military has killed dozens of people in its crackdown on extremists. Jihadist groups are also accused of ramping up violence since December. Abuses on both sides may amount to war crimes. Plus, women from sub-Saharan Africa who live in Tunisia often…

The National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) announced on Monday a general strike in public media, noting that the date will be set later. SNJT Vice-President Amira Mohamed said the decision was taken in coordination with the General Federation of Information during the meetings held at the headquarters of Tunisian…

Thousands of supporters of the Free Constitutional Party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis. The protest is the biggest by the party since Saied seized executive power last summer, according to Reuters. "Saied you are going…

Thousands of supporters of a hardline secularist Tunisian party protested on Sunday against President Kais Saied for his march towards one-man rule and failure to avert an economic crisis, showing the increasingly broad opposition to his actions.

Vast majority of Tunisians caught in Russia-Ukraine war have evacuated, and others await flights back as fighting rages.

Tunisia registered up to 28,000 coronavirus-related deaths and slightly over 1 million infections since the pandemic began two years ago, the Health Ministry reported on Thursday. The Ministry said five COVID-19 deaths and 540 infections were reported on March 8, raising the caseload to 1,018,447 and death toll to 28,009.

Tunisian President Kais Saied declared war Wednesday on food speculators amid a shortage of products such as wheat and semolina -- key staples in a country already mired in a political-economic crisis. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has threatened supplies of basic foodstuffs, particularly wheat which many Arab countries chiefly import…

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…