On Sunday Morocco saw 3,000 demonstrators in Casablanca, and as many as 2,000 called for regime change on the streets of Tangier. These events marked the pro-democracy February 20th Movement's resumption of its weekly Sunday protests, which had ...

TNC Forces renewed their assaults against the remaining Gadafhi strongholds of Sirta, Bani Walid and Sabha. Residents are reported to be trapped in Sirte with little food, water, or medical care, while thousands have fled. Fierce fighting for the ...

Twenty-one people were killed and approximately 100 more were injured when snipers fired upon passers-by and peaceful protesters demonstrating at Yemen's Change Square. The clashes arose as protesters pressed further into territory held by government forces. The ...

After 44 people were killed on Friday after morning prayers in anti-government protests, 200 dissidents met outside Damascus to unite key opposition figures. The meeting comes two days after Syrian opposition figures formed the Syrian National Council (SNC) to ...

On Friday, a funeral precession held for a man killed by tear gas was attacked by Bahraini security forces.Tens of thousands of people were attending the funeral of Jawad Marhun, who died from overexposure of tear gas on ...

On Thursday, a group of Syrian activists announced the formation of a Syrian National Council (SNC) as a united front against President Bashar al-Assad.  Sophia Jones, writing at Foreign Policy Magazine, obtained a document outlining the SNC's structure, membership, ...

In response to the reinstatement of emergency law, hundreds gathered in Tahrir Square in Egypt to protest the military leader's decision. Protesters in Tahrir are said to be chanting "Down with the Emergency Law! Down with military rule," ...

After meeting in Tripoli with leaders of the TNC and civil society groups, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman described the city as "remarkably normal in atmosphere," with businesses open, traffic flowing, and police patrolling the streets. In his ...

At the funeral of a demonstrator who reportedly suffocated in a cloud of tear gas, Sheik Isa Qassim, a senior cleric in Bahrain, stated that "the regime has designated the section of society asking for rights as enemies ...

In a video Q&A session, Thomas Carothers, the Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, answered several questions related to the future of Libya without Gadhafi. He suggested that the United States will be ...

Condoleezza Rice, writing for Today Online, posits that “if people have no way to hold their governments accountable through peaceful change, they will do so violently,” referring to the oppressive governments in the Middle East. She links the dearth of respect ...

In the run up to next month's election, all leading Tunisian political parties are expected to sign a document today "limiting to one year the term of the new constituent assembly and outlining how a president and prime minister ...

In wake of the Egyptian military council's response to the attacks on the Israeli Embassy on September 9th, Human Rights First reported that the renewal of emergency law runs counter to the Egyptian people's demands. "This harsh crackdown that has ...

Islamists in Libya are pushing for more power in the new government, which they say should be based on Islamic law. During the conflict, many of the rebels were Islamists and some served as Commanders. However, some rebels are ...

In a Policy Alert for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Executive Director Robert Satloff argues that the chances that the Egyptian revolution take an "anti-democratic turn" are "frighteningly high," as most recently evidenced by the attacks on ...

"Hundreds of thousands" of Yemeni protesters took to the streets throughout the country chanting "No deal. No maneuvering. The president should leave."  The demonstrations came as a response to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Monday announcement that he had

In a move to defuse popular anger, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria approved a series of media reforms that will allow for the establishment of private radio and television stations for the first time since the country gained independence ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council stated that the death toll in Syria since the March uprising now stands at 2,600. The Human Rights Council has repeatedly called on Mr. Assad to end the crackdown, but the latest increase in ...