Tunisia's TAP news agency says the death toll from a gun attack near a Synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba has risen to five. The victims were two people attending an annual Jewish ...

DJERBA, Tunisia – Tunisia's prime minister has opened a conference on dialogue between religions on the island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage that is taking place amid high security.

Photo by STR/EPA-EFE May 10 (UPI) -- A Tunisia naval guardsman opened fire on an ancient synagogue on Djerba island off Tunisia's Mediterranean coast, killing five people, officials said.

Coming between Passover and Shavuot, the pilgrimage to Ghriba is at the heart of Jewish tradition in Tunisia, where only about 1,500 members of the faith still live — mainly on Djerba ...

Popular island at risk due to tourism, neglect and climate change - For many years, Djerba’s cultural heritage has been in ...

DJERBA, Tunisia—By the hundreds, they gathered for a pre-wedding party on a resort island in Tunisia. Here, in the heart of the Muslim world, the crowds were speaking Arabic.

The attack came amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel, Reuters reported. La Ghriba is Africa’s oldest synagogue, a revered and ...

A naval guardsman opened fire near an ancient synagogue on the island of Djerba off Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast that has previously been the target of Islamist militants, killing two visitors ...

Tunisia’s culture minister, Mohamed Zine El-Abidine, made the announcement on Sunday, the last day of the traditional Lag b’Omer pilgrimage near the Ghriba synagogue on Djerba, an island off ...

JUST OFF TUNISIA’S southeastern coast sits a spot with a long history of intriguing names, from the Odyssean Land of the Lotus-Eaters to the Flaubertian Island of Golden Sand. But a decidedly ...

The 70 million-euro ($95 million) order from Tunisia’s national water agency was awarded to FCC Aqualia, Europe’s third-largest water company according to researcher Global Water Intelligence ...