The Tunisian parliament has adopted a new “anti-terror” law aimed at beefing up authorities’ powers following recent deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Following three days of debate, the law was adopted late on Friday night, with 172 members of parliament voting[…]
Tunisia’s interior minister has said that his country has largely destroyed local armed group Okba Ibn Nafaa, suspected of orchestrating the March attack on a museum in the capital, Tunis. Najim Gharsalli announced on Sunday that the operation ‘broke the spine’ of the al-Qaeda linked group in North Africa. The[…]
At least 27 people have been killed after a hotel in the Tunisian coastal city of Sousse came under attack by unidentified gunmen. An interior ministry official said that tourists were among those who had been killed in Friday’s attack. One attacker had been killed by police and a search[…]
An armed group has stormed the Tunisian consulate in Tripoli and abducted 10 people from the staff, according to the Tunisian foreign ministry. The attack is the fourth against a diplomatic mission in the Libyan capital this year. Earlier in April, suspected radicals of the Islamic State (Isis) detonated a[…]
Tunisia’s National Bardo Museum reopened to the public Monday again for the first time since gunmen opened fire on foreign tourists earlier this month, killing 22 people in the country’s worst attack on civilians in 13 years. The government says the man considered the “operational chief” of the assault was[…]
Tunisian security forces decimated the leadership of a Tunisian jihadi group linked to al-Qaida’s North African branch, including the man identified as the “operational chief” of the attack this month on the National Bardo Museum that killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists, the interior minister said Sunday. Najem Gharsalli said[…]
Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has fired a number of police commanders after last week’s deadly attack on a museum in the capital, his spokesman said on Monday. Among those sacked were the security chief for the Tunis region, local police chiefs and the director of tourist security, Mofdi Mseddi[…]
A third attacker in the deadly assault on the Bardo museum is on the run, Tunisia’s president said Sunday, declaring his country at war with the extremists who killed 21 people at one of North Africa’s most revered cultural institutions. President Beji Caid Essebsi said the attack involved “three aggressors”[…]
The two radical gunmen who killed 21 people at a museum in Tunis trained in neighboring Libya before carrying out the deadly attack, a top Tunisian security official said. Wednesday’s attack at the National Bardo Museum killed 21 people – 17 of them cruise ship tourists – before the two[…]
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for the attack that killed 21 people at a museum. But Tunisian authorities said the two slain gunmen had no clear links to extremists, and analysts said existing extremist cells are merely being inspired by the group, rather than establishing its presence across[…]
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