Tunisia's independent electoral body says 26 candidates have qualified to run in the country's early presidential election on Sept. 15, out of 96 who ...
Tunisia’s 92-year-old president, Beji Caid Essebsi, a major player in the North African country’s transition to democracy after a 2011 revolution ...
A Tunisian politician vying to become his country's first openly gay president has said he will push to decriminalize gay sex and insisted his candida...
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, who was taken ill last week, left hospital on Monday in “normal health” and will resume work in the coming d...
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in separate attacks on police in the Tunisian capital on Thursday, killing one police officer and wounding seve...
African countries have had their fair share of long-serving leaders but, if the past decade is anything to go by, this trend is about to come to a cra...
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Saturday he did not want to run for a second term in presidential elections expected this year, despite h...
Activists on two continents are trying to disrupt Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's first global tour since the murder of journalist Jamal Kha...
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Tuesday against a visit by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, denouncing the top Saudi royal as a murderer in the secon...
Several thousand Tunisians marched through central Tunis on Saturday to protest against a bill that would grant amnesty to businessmen accused of corr...
Tunisian citizens and non-governmental organizations operating in the country can now file cases directly at the African Court on Human and People’s...
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has said U.S. surveillance drones are flying over the Tunisian-Libyan border to ward of attacks by Islamic State,...
Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid faces a vote of no confidence in parliament on Saturday after resisting the president's proposal to help form a n...
Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday, attacking army and police posts in a ra...
Tunisia's president says he understands frustration that has led to protests over unemployment, but instability could be exploited by extremists. A c...
A bomb exploded on a bus packed with Tunisian presidential guards in the capital Tunis on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people in an attack one source ...
Seventeen tourists were killed in the attack, including visitors from Japan, Italy, Colombia, Australia, France, Poland and Spain, officials said. ...
Official results are yet to be announced from the run-off election but one exit poll gave Essebsi 55.5% with several others showing similar figures. ...
About 54% of the electorate took part in the electoral process with no reports of any violence. This is Tunisia's first presidential election ...