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Tunisia Ennahda Party Spokesman Arrested

Ennahda spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti. (Social media)
Ennahda spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti. (Social media)
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Tunisia Ennahda Party Spokesman Arrested

Ennahda spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti. (Social media)
Ennahda spokesman Abdelfattah Taghouti. (Social media)

The spokesman of Tunisia's Ennahda party has been detained, the party said on Wednesday.

Abdelfattah Taghouti was detained by a national guard unit on Tuesday evening, Ennahda said, demanding his immediate release.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) contacted the party but it had no information on the reasons behind the arrest.

Authorities are investigating several leaders from Ennahda, which is the largest party opposing President Kais Saied, over accusations of conspiracy against the state, financial corruption, sending Tunisians to Syria to fight, and terrorism.

The party says that these charges are fabricated and politically motivated.

Among the detainees are Ennahda Secretary-General Ali Laarayedh, who is a former prime minister and minister of the interior, former Minister of Justice Noureddine Bhiri, and former Minister of Agriculture, Mohamed Ben Salem.

Ennahda’s former MP al-Habib al-Loz and Abdul Hamid Al-Jalasi, who resigned from the party, were also arrested.

Investigations also include Rached Ghannouchi, head of the party, who is still free.

In its statement, Ennahda condemned a “campaign of arbitrary arrests aimed at diverting attention from the failings of the regime.”

“Public opinion knows the failure and impotence of the authorities after 20 months of monopolizing power, a period in which our country has sunk further into economic collapse, social misery, and international isolation,” the party stressed.

It further denounced the campaign to silence those who oppose Saied’s policies.

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Assad Loyalists Kill at Least 13 Police Officers in Ambush on Syrian Forces in Coastal Town

Vehicles of members of Syria's new authorities security forces block a road in al-Sanamayn, in the southern province of Daraa, during a reported large scale military campaign on March 5, 2025. (AFP)
Vehicles of members of Syria's new authorities security forces block a road in al-Sanamayn, in the southern province of Daraa, during a reported large scale military campaign on March 5, 2025. (AFP)
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Assad Loyalists Kill at Least 13 Police Officers in Ambush on Syrian Forces in Coastal Town

Vehicles of members of Syria's new authorities security forces block a road in al-Sanamayn, in the southern province of Daraa, during a reported large scale military campaign on March 5, 2025. (AFP)
Vehicles of members of Syria's new authorities security forces block a road in al-Sanamayn, in the southern province of Daraa, during a reported large scale military campaign on March 5, 2025. (AFP)

Gunmen ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town Thursday, leaving at least 13 security members dead and many others wounded, a monitoring group and a local official said.

The attack came amid tensions in Syria’s coastal region between former President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect and members of armed groups. Assad was overthrown in early December in an offensive of opposition factions led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ambush in the town of Jableh, near the city of Latakia, killed at least 16. Rami Abdurrahman, head of the monitoring group, said the gunmen who ambushed the police force are Alawites.

“These are the worst clashes since the fall of the regime,” Abdurrahman said.

A local official in Damascus told The Associated Press that 13 members of the General Security directorate were killed in the ambush. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release security information to the media.

Conflicting casualties figures are not uncommon in the immediate aftermath of attacks in Syria’s 13-year conflict that has killed half a million people.

The pan Arab Al-Jazeera TV broadcaster said its cameraman Riad al-Hussein was wounded while covering the clashes.

The SANA state-news agency reported that large reinforcements were being sent to the coastal region to get the situation under control.

The Syrian Observatory said helicopter gunships took part in attacking Alawite gunmen and Jableh and nearby areas. It added that fighters loyal to former Syrian army Gen. Suheil al-Hassan, also known as Tiger, took part in the attacks against security forces.

Tensions have been on the rise in Syria with reports of attacks by militants against Alawites who had led the rule in Syria for more than five decades under the Assad family.