Sources: BBC
Twenty-seven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are killed, and 83 others are rescued after two boats capsize off the Kerkennah Islands near Tunisia, with searches ongoing for additional missing passengers. 2025-01-1
Unidentified attackers open fire on a Tunisian military patrol near the border with Libya, killing a soldier, according to the Tunisian Ministry of Defence. 2024-06-26
Twenty-five people are killed and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. 2023-04-12
Italian police arrest five Tunisians suspected of links to Anis Amri, perpetrator of the December 2016 terror attack in Germany. 2018-03-29
Prime Minister of Tunisia Hamadi Jebali resigns after failing to reach an agreement on forming a new technocratic government. 2013-02-19
In Tunisia, the funeral of the opposition politician Chokri Belaid takes place as over a million people gather in mourning amid major protests. A general strike is declared. Tunis Airport is closed and all flights suspended. 2013-02-8
Representatives of more than seventy countries meet in Tunisia to discuss supporting the opposition in the Syrian uprising. 2012-02-24
Tunisia announces that elections are planned for mid-July 2011, as thousands protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi. 2011-02-25
Thousands of political prisoners of former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali are released in Tunisia. 2011-02-19
Tunisia's interim President Fouad Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resign from the ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party amid a row over the make-up of the new government. 2011-01-18