Sitting down for an interview with the Washington Post, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh stated that his vice-president (who been delegated the authority to sign on Saleh's behalf) is ready to sign the GCC initiative that would allow ...

The State Department issued the following statement expressing their concern about the imprisonment of Bahraini medical professionals sentenced this week to terms between 5-15 years. The U.N. Human rights office also criticized the sentences. "We are ...

The United Nations Security Council continues to negotiate amongst member nations the language of the latest resolution regarding Syria. A coalition of European and U.S. member nations have been locked in a debate with other member nations on ...

As debate about governance after the Arab uprisings sweeps the Middle East, Islamists are competing to define an Islamic state, writes Anthony Shadid and David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times. "They are confronting newly urgent questions about how to apply ...

Abdolfatah Soltan, a prominent Iranian lawyer who was arrested September 10th, is reportedly facing a new charge for accepting the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award in 2009, which the government deemed "unlawful." Soltan has represented a number of well-known Iranian political ...

An editorial in The Washington Post argues that the $53 million arms deal proposed by the Pentagon for sale to Bahrain sends an "unmistakable" and "dangerous" message. The editor urges, "Bahrain’s ruling family should be given more reason to worry ...

Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) addressed reporters after meeting with the head of the Transitional National Council Mustafa Abdul-Jalil and other high-ranking officials in Tripoli. Sen. McCain called Libya's revolutionaries an inspiration ...

Foreign Policy featured a piece yesterday written by Executive Director Stephen McInerney of POMED which discusses a disturbing campaign by Egypt's ruling military council (SCAF) against Egypt's civil society organizations. McInerney has characterized this campaign against civil society ...

In response to the recently proposed arms deal to Bahrain, the Project on Middle East Democracy has drafted a letter to Congress, signed by a dozen other rights organizations including Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, urging Congress "to take ...

Today the Local Coordinating Committees of Syria announced the formation of the 'Union of Free Syrian Students,' an affiliated organization whose focus would be to "work closely to organize demonstrations and general strikes inside universities and schools...while being committed ...

On Wednesday, the Democratic Coalition announced that its members would not participate in the November 28 parliamentary elections if Article 5, announced by SCAF on Tuesday, remained in effect. The Coalition, which includes the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Wafd among ...

Initially poor turnout has been reported in Saudi Arabia's second-ever local council elections in which 5,324 candidates are competing for 1,056 seats to fill half the positions in the country's 285 councils. The remaining seats are appointed by ...

Thirteen doctors and nurses were sentenced to 15 years in jail for treating opposition demonstrators wounded during violent government crackdowns earlier this year. Seven additional medical professionals were handed 5-10 year sentences by a special tribunal. Most of ...

An increase in terrorist attacks, caused by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), "threatens pro-western Algeria's political stability even as it struggles to defuse popular discontent sparked by the Arab spring, according to a new study."  The study, conducted ...

In what United States and Saudi official are calling a  "clever, canny trick" by President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, officials of both countries are claiming that Salah's return to Yemen was not planned, and that he had “bolted the kingdom under ...

In Libya, some are expressing frustration over what they perceive as a delay in the TNC's announcement of a new cabinet. Since fighting continues over remaining Gadhafi strongholds, the TNC has not yet declared liberation, and therefore ...

On Wednesday, a Bahraini security court denied appeals for 21 opposition activists convicted in June for "plotting against the government." The 21 suspects were convicted in June for "forming a terrorist group to change the constitution and its monarchical ...

As reports continue to emerge about the grave human rights abuses being metted out by the Syrian government against protesters, there is a feeling that an armed struggle against the Assad government is an inevitable outcome. The latest report put together by ...