Sources: AP via MSNBC
A Tunisian court sentences former prime minister Ali Laarayedh, who has been detained since 2022, to 24 years in prison for facilitating the travel of Tunisian nationals to Syrian conflict zones during his premiership, while seven co-defendants, including former interior ministry officials, receive prison terms ranging from three to 24 years. 2026-02-27
More than 577 pilgrims from Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, and Indonesia are confirmed to have died of heat-related illnesses during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. 2024-06-18
A court in Tunisia sentences four people to death and two others to life in prison for the 2013 murder of politician Chokri Belaid. 2024-03-27
Fourteen people are killed and 54 others are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the Tunisian coast. 2023-03-9
Two Tunisian police officers are injured in a stabbing and suspected terrorist attack in the Grand Synagogue of Tunis. 2022-06-24
Tunisia receives 1.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Italy. 2021-08-1
Tunisia reports a record 9,823 new cases and 134 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the national total of confirmed cases to 464,914 and the nationwide death toll to 15,735. 2021-07-7
Gunmen attack Tunisia's Bardo National Museum, adjacent to the parliament building, killing 23 people, including 18 foreign tourists. 2015-03-18
Police in Tunisia kill at least two people during a protest in the northwestern town of El Kef demanding the resignation of a police chief - crowds retaliate by burning the police station. 2011-02-6
Tunisia's prime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi promises in a TV interview to leave politics "in the shortest possible timeframe" after elections to be held following President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's recent fall. 2011-01-22