Arab Springs in Tunisia

By maxyod

  • Arab Spring Riots

    A young university graduate who could only find work as a fruit seller burns himself to death to protest police harassment and unemployment in the central town of Sidi Bouzid, unleashing rioting which spreads across the country. 338 people were killed.

  • Ben Ali fleas

    Under massive popular pressure Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia

  • Mohamed Ghannouchi forced to resign

    Police stations are attacked as anti-government demonstrations force Ben Ali's last prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, to resign. He is replaced by veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi.

  • Tunisia first free election results announced

    Violence erupts in Sidi Bouizid after results of Tunisia's first free election are announced, in which the Islamist Ennahda party wins most seats in a consituent assembly.

  • Art exhibition offends Islam leaders

    Unrest triggered by an art exhibition of work deemed offensive to Islam. The government blames hardline Salafists and old regime loyalists.

  • Protests over anti-Islam film

    Four attackers killed in clashes at the US embassy amid protests over an anti-Islam film.

  • Police and protestrors clash in Silliana

    300 injured in clashes between police and protestors in Silliana, southwest of Tunisia.

  • Prominent leaders shot dead by jihadists

    Prominent opposition leader Chokri Belaid shot dead, triggering deadly protests and a political crisis that brings down Islamist prime minister Hamadi Jebali. On July25 opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi is shot dead. In December 2014 jihadists claim both killings.

  • Islamic militants kill eight Tunisian soldiers

    Eight soldiers are killed in the Mount Chaambi area near Algeria where Tunisian forces have been hunting an al-Qaeda-linked group since December. On August 2, the army announces a major operation against Islamist militants in the area.

  • Suicide bomber in Sousse

    A suicide bomber blows himself up on a beach in the resort town of Sousse, leaving no victims, while security forces foil anothe planned attack nearby.

  • Islamist assassin killed in police raid

    The suspected Islamist assassin of Belaid is killed in a police raid, one of seven heavily armed terroists slain in an operation launched at a house in a Tunis suburb

  • al-Qaeda kills four policemen

    Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb says it was responsible for an attack on the interior minister's home that killed four policemen, the first such claim in the country.

  • Jihadists kill 15 soldiers

    Suspected jihadists kill 15 soldiers in the Mount Chaambi region, in the deadliest such attack in the army's history.

  • Police kill six Islamic militants

    Police kill six suspectant militants, five of them women, in a raid on a suburban house after a 28-hour standoff, fanning tensions shead of parliamentary polls.

  • Essebi wins Tunisia's first free presidential election.

  • 21 people killed in Tunis museum

    Seventeen tourists from Poland, Italy, Germany and Spain are among 21 people killed as gunmen attack a Tun is museum, according to the countries prime minister.