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Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one death.Security checkpoints were in place and patrols conducted throughout the central city of Kairouan after authorities declared the conference to be held there by the ultraconservative Muslim group Ansar al-Shariah a threat "to security and public order."Police clashed with stone-throwing young men in the center of the town and fired tear gas to disperse them. Kairouan hospital reported that five civilians and four policemen were injured in the clashes.Far more serious, however, was a confrontation between police and supporters of Ansar al-Shariah in the low-income suburb of Ettadamon, north of the capital Tunis, where young men threw stones and burned tires and security forces responded with tear gas and warning shots.The state n...
A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia extradited Libya's former prime minister to his country on Sunday, despite concerns by Tunisia's president and human rights groups that...
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries with possible cases of the SARS-like novel coronavirus on Thursday that they must share information and not allo...
FNC political analyst Ed Rollins and FNC contributors Judith Miller and Monica Crowley on the President’s war on terror plan and overall foreign policy.
Below is the transcript for President Obama's counterterrorism policy speech at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.:MAY 23, 20132:01 P...
A Tunisian man accused of radicalizing a Canadian resident charged in a plot to derail a train has been charged with trying to stay in the United States illegally to...
A mob of alleged religious conservatives attacked a Tunisian police station and clashed with security forces Friday, leaving one person dead and two wounded, the sta...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A prominent Tunisian journalist who had criticized his government was freed Tuesday after serving a six-month prison sentence.Taoufik Ben Brik,...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Former Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Mzali, a longtime member of the International Olympic Committee , has died in a Paris hospital after a l...
A Tunisian opposition leader critical of both the Islamist-led government and of violence by radical Muslims was gunned down as he left home Wednesday -- the first a...
Tunisia's governing moderate Islamist party condemned the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and the neighboring American school, saying Saturday that such violence...
U.S. military sources serving in North Africa are challenging the latest White House claim that the administration is applying "all the resources" at its disposal to...
An outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocati...
Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing protesters and ominous ...
Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White...
A major Tunisian security presence has surrounded the country's main religious center and prevented hardline Muslims from holding their annual gathering.Police scuff...
Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected by the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia.The ministry's statement repo...
A Tunisian court has convicted two veiled students of destroying public property at the office of a university dean they accused of slapping one of them.The court dr...
Libya's oil minister defected and fled to Tunisia, a Tunisian security official said Tuesday, one of the highest profile figures to abandon Moammar Gadhafi's governm...