The TGM, the Tunis suburban light rail that connects the downtown with the storied neighborhoods of Carthage and Sidi Bou Said, has also become a playground for Tunisian youth returning home from school. As the weather warms, more and more teenage...

Tunisian lawmakers have approved a new government after weeks of deadlock but it may do little to ease the country's problems. The swearing-in was overshadowed by the death of a street vendor who set himself on fire in a protest that echoed the ev...

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda gives up the interior, foreign, defense, and justice ministries to independent figures, in an attempt to diffuse the crisis that erupted following the assassination of opposition leader Chokri Belaid. This c...

The secular party of Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has withdrawn its three ministers from the Islamist led Tunisian government, throwing the coalition into further turmoil. The move was not due to Hamadi Jebali's decision to try and form a go...

Thousands marched in Tunis on Saturday in support of the government - it was a show of strength a day after the funeral of an assassinated secular politician drew the biggest crowds seen on the streets since Tunisia's uprising two years ago.

Tunisia's first general strike in decades brought the country to a halt as tens of thousands gathered in the capital for the funeral of slain opposition leader Shokri Belaid. Clashes between protestors and police have been reported around the coun...

The Tunisian crisis sparked by the killing of a secular opposition leader deepened as the ruling Ennahda party rejected its own prime minister's plan to dissolve the government and call new elections. Protests are swelling and unions plan a genera...

Tunisia's ruling coalition has been dissolved amid huge street protests over the killing of opposition leader Shokri Belaid. Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali says he will form a technocratic government to rule the country until new elections can be he...

A leading Tunisian politician has been murdered. Shokri Belaid was the leader of a left wing opposition party - and an outspoken critic of the government. He was shot outside his home, leading to mass protests blaming the government. Al Jazee...

The second anniversary of the death of Mohammed Bouazizi, the street vender whose self immolation sparked the Tunisian Revolution, has been marked in the town of Sid Bouzid. President Moncef Marzouki was pelted with stones and tomatoes as he addr...