Sources: BBC
Tunisian police arrest former human rights minister Ayachi Hammami to enforce a five-year prison sentence for a state-security conspiracy conviction issued amid recent appellate court rulings that imposed long jail terms on opposition figures. 2025-12-2
Tunisia announces that they will remove Death on the Nile from theaters over Gal Gadot’s role in the film and her normalization of Israel. 2022-02-23
Residents of Essouassi, Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia, torch the local police station, and a police vehicle, after two young men are killed in a traffic accident with a police vehicle. Personnel evacuate the facility, and no one is hurt. 2021-04-15
North Macedonia establishes diplomatic relations with Armenia, Monaco, San Marino and Tunisia at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. 2019-09-27
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
United States Air Force warplanes carry out airstrikes on ISIL in western Libya, near the Tunisian border, reportedly killing at least 38 people. 2016-02-19
Tunisian security forces have killed 10 people (claimed by authorities to be Islamist militants) near the border with Algeria in a three-day operation against gunmen who attacked police patrols in the remote northern region. 2013-10-19
A major crisis deepens in Tunisia after the murder of Chokri Belaid. The leading party Ennahda states that it will not accept a new government, even if suggested by its leading member, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. In today's clashes at least one person died. 2013-02-7
Tunisia is to withdraw its recognition of the Syrian government. 2012-02-4
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