Sources: BBC
Five people are killed and seven others missing after a boat carrying 35 migrants from Sfax, Tunisia, sinks in the Mediterranean Sea. 2023-08-14
Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. 2023-03-9
Tunisian citizens head to the polls to vote in a constitutional referendum, which was proposed by President Kais Saied as a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis. 2022-07-25
Tunisian President Kais Saied, in a televised speech, announces the dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and the suspension of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People, and also assumes executive authority. The opposition calls the actions a coup d'état. 2021-07-25
German officials announce the arrest of a former aide to Osama bin Laden and plan to deport him to his native Tunisia. 2018-06-25
Eleven people are killed when a Libyan Air Force plane crashes from a suspected engine fire in Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia. 2014-02-21
Eight police officers and two Islamist militants are killed in clashes near Sidi Bouzid in the southern part of Tunisia. 2013-10-23
Tunisian security forces arrest two suspected members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb carrying bombs and explosives near the city of Ramada. 2011-05-15
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
During demonstrations in Tunis, approximately 1000 people call for jobs, in solidarity with protesters elsewhere in Tunisia. Police use batons and at least a dozen protesters are injured and others faint. 2010-12-27