Erdogan: from ‘rock star’ to mixed reviews from Arabs
CAIRO/ TUNIS (Reuters) - Two years ago, Tayyip Erdogan was mobbed by adoring crowds in Arab capitals and Turkey seemed set to expand its trade and influence across the region...
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Erdogan: from ‘rock star’ to mixed reviews from Arabs
CAIRO/ TUNIS (Reuters) - Two years ago, Tayyip Erdogan was mobbed by adoring crowds in Arab capitals and Turkey seemed set to expand its trade and influence across the region...
Analysis: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia’s stability
TUNIS (Reuters) - For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking...
Tunisian Islamist protester killed in clash with police
TUNIS (Reuters) - One protester died and several were injured when Tunisian Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police on Sunday. The 27-year-old man was killed...
Tunisia, hardline Islamists in standoff over Sunday gathering
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's government on Friday barred the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia from staging a weekend rally in the central city of Kairouan, saying the organization, which openly...
Tunisia hunts al Qaeda-linked militants near Algeria
TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian army and police were hunting more than 30 suspected al-Qaeda linked militants close to the border with Algeria on Tuesday, and President Moncef Marzouki traveled...
Jews revive annual pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue
DJERBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel....
Jews revive annual pilgrimage to Africa’s oldest synagogue
DJERBA, Tunisia (Reuters) - Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel....
Tunisian police clash with hardline Islamists, one killed
Tunis (Reuters) - Police fired on Islamists attacking a police station in a southern Tunisian town, killing one person, a security source said, in the latest incident to raise religious...
Islamists storm Tunisian school after it bars veiled student
TUNIS (Reuters) - Radical Muslims burst into a Tunisian school on Wednesday and assaulted its chief after he barred entry to a teenage girl wearing a face veil, or niqab,...