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The Tunisian Interior Ministry Tuesday announced security forces found a cache of weapons and ammunition in the town of Ben Guerdane, lying at the border with neighboring Libya. The cache included 29 Kalashnikov, 3 RPG rocket launchers and 130 machine guns, the ministry said in a statement. The security forces also found boxes for 9,520 […]
Rachid Ghannouchi, who has been reelected Monday as the leader of Ennahda party with a comfortable 800 of the 1058 votes, said the party is taking a new turn, alluding to the end of political Islam. “From today, we are seriously moving towards becoming a national and civil political party with an Islamic core, which […]
Canada Saturday launched a $4 million security partnership with Tunisia to help the North African country address the growing terrorism threat, which has utterly crashed its economy. Visiting Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion told reporters in Tunis that Canada would not let Tunisia fall into decay due terrorism after it chose the path of democracy […]
The Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda is refurnishing its image as party leaders announced Thursday separation of religious activities from Politics, reports say. The new orientation is to be confirmed at party’s convention this weekend. Party leader Rached Ghannouchi reportedly told French newspaper Le Monde that the change is coming in a new context, with a […]
Doha proposed the organization of an international conference to relaunch Tunisia’s battered economy, which has been affected since the 2011 revolution. The proposal was made on Wednesday by Emir Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani during during talks with visiting Tunisian President Caid Essebsi. President Essebsi welcomed the announcement and thanked the Qatari Emir Tamim Ben […]
The United States Wednesday delivered a set of military equipment including jeeps and aircrafts to Tunisia to help the North African country better secure its borders against illegal crossings of terrorists. The equipment estimated at $20 million is made of 48 jeeps, 12 aircrafts and a communication system. The package will be used to identify […]
Four security forces and three jihadists were killed Wednesday as the National Guards and the police tried to neutralize groups of terrorists near the capital and in the south of the country, the interior ministry announced in a statement. “One terrorist element was shot dead while the other detonated his explosive belt, killing two officers […]
Tunisian Prime Minister called, on Tuesday, for regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism, which is putting the whole region into jeopardy. Speaking at a press conference in Rabat after a meeting with his Moroccan counterpart Abdelilah Benkirane, Habid Essid indicated that the region would be better secured if the region countries, namely Tunisia, Morocco […]
Around 2,000 Tunisians have been stopped from joining terrorist groups in war zones around the world so far this year, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. “In 2016, 1,877 Tunisians were prevented from leaving the country to travel to hot spots,” said Interior Ministry spokesman Yasser Mesbah. Since January, Tunisian security authorities have also busted […]
The Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) Saturday criticized the growing number of the pre-trial detainees, put at 13,000, in the country’s prisons which it says violates human rights as it far surpasses the number of prisoners serving their sentences (9,600.) The League pointed out in a report that given the growing number of pre-trail detainees, […]