Tunisia

According to local sources, a Tunisian court condemned eight suspects to death on Tuesday for the 2013 assassination of Mohamed Brahmi, a socialist opposition activist. “Attempting to change the state’s nature” and “inciting armed conflict” were...

During a visit to Rome on Saturday, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak agreed to co-fund a project aimed at assisting migrants who are trying to return home from Tunisia. Sunak praised...

Ahmed Hafnaoui, a two-time world champion swimmer, said on Wednesday that he hopes to become Tunisia’s greatest Olympian at next year’s Games in Paris. The 20-year-old, who won gold in the 800m and 1,500m freestyle events...

Human Rights Watch called on the European Union to stop supporting Tunisia’s migration control efforts on Wednesday, claiming that the country’s security services had engaged in “serious abuses” toward black African migrants. The New York-based watchdog...

On Monday morning in the Tunisian capital’s south, a head-on collision between two passenger trains injured 95 persons, according to rescue services. “The injured were brought to hospitals, and no deaths were reported,” Moez Triaa, a...

Tunisia’s crisis-stricken economy needs “deep reforms” such as slashing its vast public wage bill, the International Monetary Fund’s outgoing country chief has said as the government seeks a new bailout. Jerome Vacher, speaking in an interview...

In nine separate operations, Tunisian authorities said they had detained more than 200 migrants attempting to reach the Italian coast. “Units from the northern, southern, and central areas managed to stop nine (sea crossing) attempts overnight...

On Tuesday, US troops spearheaded an increasingly frantic operation to transport thousands of people out of Kabul after the Taliban warned that foreign forces would only be allowed to carry out evacuations for one more week....

Tunisian police attacked Al Jazeera’s Tunis bureau, expelling all workers after President Kais Saied dissolved the cabinet late Sunday in a move that critics labelled a coup. According to Al Jazeera correspondents in Tunis, at least...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, which covers the entire face apart from the eyes, in government offices, citing security reasons. The order comes after three suicide bombings in the...