Tunisian security forces have killed five Islamist militants in clashes in the mountains near the central town of Gafsa, and military helicopters were pursuing more in the area, a security source said on Friday. Tunisian forces are on high alert after last month’s attack on a beach resort...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency on Saturday to give his government more powers following an Islamic militant attack on a beach hotel, where 38 foreign tourists, mostly Britons, were killed. Tunisia's emergency law temporarily gives the government more...

Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid told the BBC on Friday that police took too long to react to last week's jihadi attack that killed 38 people, mostly Britons. "The time of the reaction - this is the problem," Essid told the British broadcaster. Police had been "blocked everywhere," he added....

Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said. Thirty-eight foreigners, most British...