The top U.S. military commander in the Mideast says attacks in Iraq will continue for some time, and they may be the work of a network of foreign fighters from Tunisia.

A French court sentenced a German convert to Islam to 18 years in prison Thursday for his role in the bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 21 people nearly eight years ago.

Officials say a boat carrying up to 35 young Tunisians trying to travel to Italy illegally has capsized near Tunis.

A man who says he orchestrated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States was among three people put on trial Monday in a Paris court for involvement in a deadly synagogue bombing in Tunisia.

The self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks goes on trial in absentia in France on Monday for allegedly ordering a deadly Tunisian synagogue bombing less than a year after the assault on New York and Washington.

A lawyer says a Tunisian court has convicted an alleged former logistics head of al-Qaida’s European operations of belonging to a terror group and given him an 11-year prison sentence.

The EU transport commissioner says European and African countries should work to build a single highway system connecting northern and southern Africa.

Top African finance officials urged wealthy nations Wednesday to help their continent during this weekend’s Group of 20 crisis summit, vowing on their part to boost economic reforms and national cash reserves.

Top African finance officials convened Wednesday in Tunisia for an emergency meeting on the world financial crisis, hoping to voice Africa’s concerns ahead of a G-20 summit later this week.

Austria’s government says two Austrians kidnapped more than eight months ago while on holiday in Tunisia have been released.