Tunisia

A dozen defence lawyers had been arguing for an acquittal for the couple

The number of migrants trying to make the trip, has jumped in the last month while fewer are leaving from Libya

Rise seen in the number of migrants trying to make the perilous sea crossing from Tunisia to Europe since summer

Announcement comes a month after President Essebsi called for government to scrap ban dating back to 1973

Two gunmen opened fire at the National Bardo Museum in an operation claimed by the Islamic State group

The man was seen smoking outside the Bizerte courthouse by a judiciary official

Every year the issue comes to the fore in the North African country

Dax J has been charged with public indecency and offending public morality by a Tunisian court

The official was arrested during a police sting allegedly pocketing money from a businessman

Tunisian asylum seeker who killed 12 people in a Christmas market in December

Kasperczak’s men reach quarter-finals with 4-2 victory in Gabon

Tunisia's interior ministry said the nephew and two other suspects, aged between 18 and 27, were detained on Friday

German police are searching for a Tunisian man in connection with Berlin Christmas market

Tunisian officials hope it will put the country "back on the investment map of the Mediterranean"

The minister publicly suggested the conservative form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia had links to extremism

Seven other soldiers also wounded in the attack; two militants believed to have been killed, says official

The burkini has stirred controversy in France, but on the beaches of North Africa, it has made few waves

Fatima Charrihi, devout Muslim, was among the first to be killed in the Nice attack, her son Hamza told local media

Statement came after President Beji Caid Essebsi donated month's salary to the fund at a post office in central Tunis

Ten members of security forces were also killed in the fighting in Ben Guerdane

Kasserine province, which neighbours Algeria, has seen repeated clashes between security forces and militants

'Hedi' is the debut feature-length film of Tunisian filmmaker Mohamed Ben Attia

According to UN, more than 5,500 Tunisians, mostly aged between 18 and 35, have joined terrorist organisations

The authorities have stepped up arrests since a November 24 bomb attack on a bus in Tunis

Tunisia is under a state of emergency following a suicide bomb attack on a presidential guard bus in Tunis last month

Decision was taken following suicide bombing claimed by IS that killed 12 presidential guards in Tunis

Abdelli, a 26-year-old, was formally named this week by investigators as the man who killed 12 guards on Wednesday

Interior ministry said explosive used in the attack was also used to make suicide belts illegally brought from Libya

Bombing of a presidential guard bus in the Tunisian capital that killed at least 12 people

Attackers blew up a Tunisian bus carrying presidential guards in the capital Tunis

Thousands of young Tunisians have travelled to Iraq, Syria and Libya to fight alongside the Islamic State

Several countries have evacuated their citizens from Tunisia after the beachside massacre in June