Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi was taken “seriously ill” on Thursday and hospitalized, his office said. Essebsi, 92, “was taken seriously ill and transferred to the military hospital in Tunis,” the presidency said on its Facebook page. The announcement came after two suicide attacks in Tunis on security forces killed ...
Multiple blasts and reported gunfire rocked Tunisia’s capital on Thursday, killing at least one police officer and injuring at least eight people. The first explosion in front of a police patrol, in a popular shopping area in central Tunis, wounded four and killed one officer, while a second blast near ...