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American ISIS wannabe extradited from Tunisia to US
February 27, 2018 | 9:30pmAn ISIS wannabe who fled the United States to join the terrorist group is back -- and facing federal charges. Bernard Augustine trekked from California to Tunisia in February 2016...
Man says his testicle 'exploded' after contracting rare disease
January 7, 2018 | 4:42pmA man’s testicle “exploded like a volcano” after he got a rare disease on vacation. David Worsley, 59, caught African salmonella, a strain of the infection which was confined to...
Crocodile brutally stoned to death at Tunisian zoo
March 3, 2017 | 4:05amA crocodile at a zoo in Tunisia has been brutally stoned to death by a group of visitors, according to media reports. Citing authorities in Tunis, Agence France Presse reports...
Bastille Day attacker's Tunisian roots: secular and tranquil
July 17, 2016 | 6:20amMohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s trail of jihadist destruction belies a tranquil and secular background. His Tunisian hometown of M’saken is a relatively wealthy area, fueled by miles of hotels along glittering...
Bastille Day killer was 'radicalized very quickly': official
July 16, 2016 | 8:30amNICE, France -- French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says that the truck driver who killed 84 people when he careened into a crowd at a fireworks show was "radicalized very...
Unlikely Bastille Day jihadist 'was not a Muslim, he was a s- -t'
July 16, 2016 | 12:44amHe’s a Tunisian-born petty criminal with a violent streak — but nobody saw this coming. Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who killed at least 84 Bastille Day revelers and wounded hundreds more...
Nice's road of terror and tears
July 15, 2016 | 10:51pmThis is the terrorists road of ruin. The fiend who killed 84 people — including 10 children — on the Nice waterfront Thursday left a trail of carnage 1 1/4...
Bastille Day attacker was a delivery driver born in Tunisia
July 15, 2016 | 8:32amThe man who carried out the murderous rampage in Nice has been identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a French-Tunisian petty criminal, according to reports. The 31-year-old delivery driver, a resident of...
Fatal blast on bus carrying Tunisian presidential guard
November 24, 2015 | 12:59pmTUNIS, Tunisia — An explosion hit a bus carrying members of Tunisia's presidential guard in the country's capital Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, the Interior Ministry said. The blast...
Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize
October 9, 2015 | 9:00amOSLO, Norway — A Tunisian coalition of workers, employers, human rights activists and lawyers won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for pulling the country that sparked the Arab Spring...
Tunisian forces kill five suspected Islamic terrorists
July 12, 2015 | 10:56amTunisian security forces have gunned down five suspected jihadists, as the country still reels from an Islamic extremist terrorist’s attack that left 38 people dead at a resort. Cops on...
UK tells tourists to leave Tunisia before 'likely terror attack'
July 9, 2015 | 1:27pmLONDON — The British government on Thursday told all U.K. tourists to leave Tunisia because a terrorist attack is "highly likely." The Foreign Office said it is advising against all...
Tunisia detains 12 in hotel attack probe
July 2, 2015 | 4:55amTUNIS, Tunisia — About 12 people have been detained in the investigation into a massacre at a beach resort that killed 38 people, mostly British tourists, a Tunisian official said....
Tunisia beach killer trained with museum gunmen
June 30, 2015 | 6:59pmTUNIS, Tunisia — The student who massacred tourists in a Tunisian seaside resort trained in a jihadi camp in Libya at the same time as the two men who attacked...
Tunisia beach terrorist lived like a pig
June 30, 2015 | 10:22amChilling video footage has emerged of where the gunman behind the Tunisia terror attack was living before he massacred nearly 40 tourists on a beach. Armed with a Kalashnikov machine...
Tunisian terrorist grinned during beach slaughter: survivors
June 27, 2015 | 5:02pmThis is the ISIS madman casually strolling along a Tunisian beach, his AK-47 dangling from his right arm — just after opening fire and slaughtering 38 tourists. The grinning Islamic...
Gunman rampages through Tunisian seaside resort, killing tourists
June 26, 2015 | 9:06amAn ISIS-inspired student masquerading as a beachgoer opened fire on sunbathers at a popular Tunisian resort — killing dozens of vacationers. Dressed in swim trunks, the shooter pulled a Kalashnikov...
Honeymoon in hell: ISIS creates its own Niagara Falls
May 26, 2015 | 9:20amBEIRUT -- The honeymoon was a brief moment for love, away from the front lines of Syria's war. In the capital of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed "caliphate," Syrian fighter...
Tunisian security forces kill ringleader of museum attack
March 29, 2015 | 12:43pmTUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia's prime minister said Sunday a leading suspect in a deadly museum attack on foreign tourists has been killed in anti-terrorist operations, as tens of thousands of...
ISIS overruns town that inspired Luke Skywalker's home planet
March 25, 2015 | 11:51am"Star Wars" fans have been warned to stay far, far away from a Tunisian town that was the inspiration for Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine — due to the risk...