Spokesman for a Salafist Jihadist group Bilel Chaouachi was arrested by Tunisian police on Tuesday, Radio Mosaique FM reported.

Eight people, including the head of the Tataouine League, were arrested Monday over the death of Lotfi Naguedh, a member of a local opposition party, Nidaa Tounes (The Call of Tunisia), the official TAP press agency reported.

At least one man was killed Tuesday night in clashes between the police and the Salafists in a town close to Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, Shems FM reported.

Tunisia's tourism is likely to suffer from the international media reports on its domestic Jihadi Salafist violence, chairman of the country's hotel federation, Mohamed Belajouza, said on Mosaique FM Tuesday.

Tunisia's Interior Ministry denied in a statement on Tuesday the existence of Jihadist training camps on its territory, the official TAP press agency reported.

A Tunisian national guard colonel was seriously injured when a group of Salafists clashed with alcohol vendors in a town near the country's capital, the official TAP news agency reported Monday.

Tunisian authorities are determined to confiscate the assets owned by the country’s fugitive dictator and his relatives outside the country, Press TV reports.

Tunisia on Tuesday marked the first anniversary of the country's constituent assembly elections under high security.

A 23-year old Tunisian petrol smuggler was shot dead on Sunday morning by Algerian border guards near the town of Ghardimaou, Shems FM reported.

An opposition party coordinator has died after rival political supporters clashed in the southern Tunisian town of Tataouine.

Tunisian journalists have held a nation-wide strike to express discontent with what they view as government’s attempts to control the media.

Hundreds of Tunisians have held a demonstration outside the National Constituent Assembly in Tunis, demanding a ban on the normalization of ties with the Zionist regime, Press TV reports.

Tunisia has set June 2013 for presidential and legislative elections, the ruling coalition led by the Islamic Ennahda party says.

Tunisia has extended the state of emergency in the country until the end of October following an attack on the US embassy that killed four people.

Thousands of Tunisians have held a demonstration in the capital Tunis to express support for a woman allegedly raped by police officers but charged with public “indecency” after filing a complaint.

TUNIS, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali met with European Union (EU) and Belgian officials Tuesday in Brussels on the cooperation between the two sides, Tunisian official TAP press agency reported.

At least 100 Americans including embassy officials and residents have left Tunisia, days after four people were killed and dozens injured in an attack on the US Embassy by anti-Islam film protestors.

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Press TV
Supporters of Tunisia's ruling party Ennahda have staged a demonstration in Tunis in which they called for the expulsion of officials of the former regime from the current government.

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AFP
Tunisian Salafists are stoking fears of a rising Islamist tide after the hardliners disrupted a string of cultural events they deemed un-Islamic, culminating in an attack that left five people wounded.

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AP
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A general strike has paralyzed the central Tunisian town where the Arab Spring began, with residents demanding the young government resign for failing to alleviate poverty they say has worsened since the country's longtime dictator was ousted.