This video offers a concise overview of the Arab Spring, a series of pro-democracy uprisings that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and rapidly spread across the Middle East and North Africa. It ...

Larayedh, who served as prime minister from 2013 to 2014, is a senior figure in Ennahda, an Islamist party that has been a main opponent of President Kais Saied.

US President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States will remove longstanding sanctions on Syria is a critical ...

Tunisia fears the changes in Syria will lead to the return of extremist Tunisians citizens who joined armed groups in Syria in large numbers years ago. It must be prepared logistically and ...

Ahmad al-Sharaa toppled Assad. But is Syria headed toward democracy, or did it trade one dictator for another?

The rapid fall of Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad has taken Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia by surprise, with the Maghreb countries closely scrutinising developments as the country's future ...

While some countries – Egypt and Tunisia – became democracies, albeit briefly, others, like Yemen, Libya and Syria, descended into violence. One of the most pressing questions when considering ...

A court in Tunisia has sentenced former Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh ... cell and helping young Tunisians travel abroad to join Islamist fighters in Iraq and Syria. "I am not a criminal... I am a ...

But Tunisia returned to a form of one-man rule ... Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Given the complexity of Syria’s internal dynamics, some think that Mr. al-Assad’s departure is ...

The Syrian revolt spiralled out of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings that toppled autocrats in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen, giving rise to turbulent and often violent periods of transition.

(Beirut) – Syria’s newly approved constitutional declaration, meant to govern the country’s transitional phase, concentrates power in the executive and could undermine the independence of ...

Ali Larayedh former Tunisian prime minister and leader of the Ennahda Movement Party, speaks during a news conference in Tunis Advertisement ...