Approximately 2,000 protesters took to the streets of Tripoli urging militias to relinquish their weapons and retreat to their hometowns. The government has set December 20 as a deadline for the militias to leave, and the local government ...

Bahrain has reportedly halted trials for over 100 athletes and dropped all charges related to their participation in street protests. The athletes were among hundreds detained and put on trial, charged with illegal assembly, inciting hatred against the monarchy and ...

According to Radio Zamaneh, prison authorities have agreed to keep political prisoners in a separate ward after a six-day hunger strike. Four of the prisoners, including Mohammad Moradi, Vali Doroodi, Ali Salehi and Omar Emami, are suspected to have participated in a Kurdish political party and ...

  Editor at Large of the International Chronicle of Higher Education David L. Wheeler writes (subscription required) that both the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) report and the activist-produced shadow report "Bahrain: The Human Price for Freedom and Justice" criticize ...

Today, the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) released its 489-page report "investigating and reporting on the events that took place in Bahrain from February 2011, and the consequences of those events."  The BICI was formed on July ...

Houda Nonoo, Bahrain's ambassador to the United States, responded to a proposed resolution that attaches conditions to future arms sales between the United States and Bahrain. In a letter to Congressional leadership on the Foreign Affairs and Appropriations committees, as ...

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights, and the Bahrain Human Rights Society have released a joint human rights report entitled "Bahrain: the Human Price for Freedom and Social Justice." The release documents "widespread ...

According to reports, the Arab League met Syrian opposition members, asking the groups to draw up their plans for a transition of power as a prelude to a broader gathering on Syria's future. "The Arab League will announce soon a date for ...

Since President Bashar Al'Assad agreed to the Arab League initiative last Wednesday to halt the violence, civilian deaths have continued to occur on a daily basis and "more than 100 people have been killed there in the past ...

At least four more protesters have been killed by Syrian security forces in Homs, two days after the Syrian government agreed to a deal ending the violence. According to CNN, Syrian security forces spread after Friday prayers, ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi traveled to Benghazi to meet with Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Keib and other members of the TNC. The parties planned to discuss expansion of bilateral relations, and Salehi suggested that ...

The Government of Iraq has arrested hundreds of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and ex-military officers over an alleged coup plot with ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. While several officials characterized the round-up which ...

Syrian forces have killed at least seven people in Homs, a day after the government agreed to "a complete halt to violence, the release of prisoners, removing the military presence from cities and residential areas, and allowing ...

NATO has ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria. During a visit to Tripoli, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, "My answer is very short. NATO has no intention whatsoever. I can completely rule ...

When the appellate case for the 20 Bahraini medical professionals, who were initially convicted in a military court in September of various charges, began on October 23, the prosecution issued a "fact sheet" clarifying many details ...

The U.N. Security Council will vote on a British proposal that states those responsible for the government crackdown in Yemen should be held responsible. Many Western diplomats are hoping for unanimous approval from the Security Council as the uprising began six months ...