Sources: BBC
Twenty-five people are killed and others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Tunisia. 2023-04-12
Libya and Tunisia reopen their borders with stringent health protocol requiring travellers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and PCR tested negative, two months after the closure on July 8 due to an explosion of COVID-19 cases in the latter country. 2021-09-17
At least 20 African migrants die when their boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Italian island of Lampedusa. The coast guard confirmed they had rescued people and were searching for others who were on the boat, which was carrying a total of 45 people. 2020-12-24
A Tunisian National Guard officer and three fighters from an armed group are killed in a security operation in the region of Kasserine, Tunisia. 2019-09-2
Authorities identify the attacker as a 31-year-old Tunisian resident in France, who was killed during the exchange of gunfire with police. The man was known to police in connection with petty crime, but was not on the French intelligence service watch list. 2016-07-15
Tunisia's army and security forces kill another five suspected terrorists in an operation near the Libyan border. 2016-03-8
A police officer and seven Islamist militants are killed in a gunfight in Tunis, Tunisia. 2014-02-4
Tunisian police shoot dead an Islamist Militant on the outskirt of the capital Tunis in a raid. 2013-08-6
At least 150 people drown when an overcrowded boat carrying about 850 refugees fleeing Libya capsized off the Tunisian coast; scores more are still missing as a search for survivors by Tunisian authorities continues. 2011-06-3
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