Tunis — A Tunisian police officer shot dead four people at Africa's oldest synagogue in an attack Tuesday that sparked panic during an annual Jewish pilgrimage on the island of Djerba. The officer ...

DJERBA, Tunisia (AP) - When school lets out, the streets around the ancient synagogue on this Tunisian island fill with rambunctious boys wearing Jewish kippahs and girls in long skirts, shouting to ...

FILE - A Tunisian police officer stands at the entrance at El-Ghriba synagogue, the oldest Jewish monument built in Africa more than 2,500 years ago, while Jewish pilgrims attend the annual Jewish ...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian naval guard shot and killed a colleague and two civilians Tuesday as he tried to reach a synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba during an annual Jewish ...

Some 3,000 pilgrims attended this year's Jewish pilgrimage to the island, and were guarded by tight security in the wake of attacks and threats of attacks. (JTA) — Tunisia will seek UNESCO World ...

TUNIS, Tunisia – The annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Tunisian island of Djerba should be maintained as a symbol of the North African nation's openness to the world, Tunisia's tourism minister said ...

DJERBA, Tunisia – Jews are gathering on a bucolic Tunisian island resort for an annual pilgrimage under a heavy police presence, as organizers try to revive an event depleted by fears of anti-Semitism ...

TUNIS, Tunisia — The number of people killed in a gun attack on a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage has risen to five, Tunisia's TAP news agency said ...

Djerba, Tunisia --Cracked tombstones litter the perimeter of the cemetery behind the Great Synagogue that anchors this tiny Tunisian Jewish community, but it was not vandals who broke them. Hundreds ...