TUNIS  - Tunisian security forces deployed in strength on Saturday after Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia called on its supporters to defy a government ban on its annual congress.There was a heavy police presence at tollbooths along the main highway from the capital to the central city of ...

TUNIS -  Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Tuesday was handed a third life sentence since he fled to Saudi Arabia in January 2011 during a mass uprising against his rule.The military court in Sfax, southeast Tunisia, convicted Ben Ali over the violent repression of protests ...

TUNIS - Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki testified on Thursday in the murder probe of Chokri Belaid, as a judicial source named the Salafist suspected of the assassination that plunged the country into turmoil.“President Moncef Marzouki received this morning the judge of the Tunis first ...

Tunisia has installed as its new president a former dissident who was imprisoned and then exiled for opposing the former president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. In the latest landmark in the country's post-revolutionary transition to democracy, members of the constitutional assembly, Tunisia's interim ...

At least two people have been killed in fresh unrest over unemployment in Tunisia, officials say. The interior ministry said in a statement that eight people had been wounded during a demonstration in the western town of Thala. Union officials have said up to five people were killed. "The police ...