November 28th, 20200DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to a document issued by a state-owned business park.
A source briefed on the matter told Reuters the visas had temporarily stopped being issued to Afghans,...
October 17th, 20190TUNIS — Tunisia’s electoral commission officially announced on Thursday that Islamist-backed law professor Kais Saied has won the country’s presidential election.
In a news conference, commission head Nabil Baffoun said the results were definitive since no appeal by opposition had been made to contest them.
AP first reported on...
October 29th, 20180A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the center of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior Ministry called a “terrorist explosion”.
Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the...
