Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has maintained Tunisia's long-time policy of seeking good relations with the West, while playing an active role in Arab and African regional bodies. President Habib Bourguiba took a nonaligned stance but emphasized close relations with Europe, Pakistan, and the United States.
Béja is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located 105 kilometers (65 mi) from Tunis, between the Medjerdah River and the Mediterranean, against the foothills of the Khroumire, the town of Béja is situated on the sides of Djebel Acheb, facing the greening meadows, its white terraces and red roofs dominated by the imposing ruins of the old Roman fortress.
Operation "Wooden Leg" was an attack by Israel on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Hammam Chott, near Tunis, Tunisia, on October 1, 1985. With a target 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from the operation's starting point, this was the most distant publicly known action undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces since Operation Entebbe in 1976. It has been condemned by the United Nations Security Council.
Hammam-Lif is a coastal town about 20 km south-east of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It has been known since antiquity for its thermal springs originating in Mount Bou Kornine.
Chott el Djerid also spelled Sciott Gerid and Shott el Jerid, is a large endorheic salt lake in southern Tunisia. The name can be translated from the Arabic into English as "Lagoon of the Land of Palms".
The delegations of Tunisia (mutamadiyah) are the second level administrative divisions of Tunisia between the governorates and the sectors (imadats). As of 2006 there were 24 governorates which were divided into 264 delegations (mutamadiyat) and further divided into 2073 sectors. The delegations are listed below, organized by governorate.
Tunisia – United States relations are bilateral relations between Tunisia and the United States.
The 2006–07 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 was the 81st season of top-tier football in Tunisia. It saw Étoile du Sahel win the championship. At the other end of the table, Etoile Olympique de la Goulette et Kram and ES Hammam-Sousse were relegated to Ligue Professionnelle 2.
The 2008–09 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 was the 83rd season of top-tier football in Tunisia. It began on 8 August 2008 and concluded on 13 May 2009. The competition saw the return of two previous participants, Avenir Sportif de Kasserine and Espoir Sportif de Hammam-Sousse from Ligue Professionnelle 2. Espérance de Tunis won the championship while previous year's winnersClub Africain finished in second place.
Dar Allouch is a Tunisian town located at the northeastern end of the Cape Bon peninsula, at the entrance to the Gulf of Tunis. It is located 129 kilometers from Tunis and 80 kilometers from the Pantelleria. Administratively attached to the governorate of Nabeul and to the delegation of Hammam El Ghzez, it is the center of a municipality with 10,053 inhabitants in 2020. The municipality was created by the decree of April 2, 1966. It is a wonderful place to live, as it is quiet and there is less noise than one usually finds in cities, and it is visited by a good number of tourists from both inside and outside the city. Tunisia. What sets the city apart is the multiplicity of its features, where there is a clear and pure sea next to the city and the forest of Dar Chisho. It is also characterized by a large number of factories which cater for the needs of all of Tunisia, and it is known for its abundant agricultural production since most of its inhabitants practice agriculture, which is one of their most important resources.
Israel–Tunisia relations refers to bilateral relations between Israel and Tunisia. The two states do not have any official diplomatic relations at all, with Tunisia being part of the Arab League boycott of Israel, and officially does not recognise the State of Israel.
The Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon was a conflict initiated by Palestinian militants based in South Lebanon upon Israel from 1968 and upon Christian Lebanese factions from the mid-1970s, which evolved into the wider Lebanese Civil War in 1975 and lasted until the expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organization from Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. Although the PFLP-GC and some other Palestinian factions continued low-level military activities on Lebanese soil, after 1982 the conflict is considered to have faded in favor of local inter-Lebanese Mountain War and the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.
The siege of Beirut took place in summer 1982, as part of the 1982 Lebanon War, which resulted from the breakdown of the ceasefire effected by the United Nations. The siege ended with the Palestinian Liberation Organization being forced out of Beirut and the rest of Lebanon.
The 2016–17 Tunisian Cup was the 85th season of the football cup competition of Tunisia. The competition is organized by the Fédération Tunisienne de Football (FTF) and open to all clubs in Tunisia.
Sidi Bellahssan El Halfaoui Mosque is a Tunisian mosque in the Halfaouine neighborhood in the Medina of Tunis in Tunisia.
On 23 December 2006 and 3 January 2007, Tunisian security forces engaged in clashes with members of a group with connections to the Islamist terror group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in the towns of Soliman and Hammam-Lif south of the capital Tunis, killing more than a dozen people.
The Soliman Shooting is a violent incident which occurred on January 3, 2007 in the Tunisian region of Soliman, south-east of Tunis. The national police forces fought an armed group calling itself "Asad ibn al-Furat's army" which had been initially labeled by the government as "dangerous criminals". A previous shooting involving this same group had taken place on December 23, 2006 placing it in a context of jihadist terrorism and anarchist, insurgent, Islamist militancy.
The Corbyn wreath-laying controversy refers to a political controversy in the United Kingdom surrounding the visit of Jeremy Corbyn to the Hamman Chott Cemetery in Tunis in 2014.
The Norway–Palestine relations are the bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Norway and the State of Palestine. Palestine has a diplomatic mission in Oslo, while Norway has a representative office in Al-Ram. Norway has not yet granted official diplomatic recognition to Palestine.
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