Clashes between the Libyan National Army and the al-Zintan brigade broke out after the army sent forces to take control of Tripoli's airport from militia men on Saturday. Army spokesman Sgt. Abdel-Razik el-Shibahy said "fighters from the western ...

In an interview with Al-Jazeera, U.N. Secretary General  Ban Ki-moon blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the events that have transpired over the past eight months. He stated that "As a leader of Syria is responsible for all that ...

Pro-government demonstrators marched to the offices of  a Bahraini opposition party of Waad and painted graffiti on the walls against the majority Shia population and Iran. Some of the slogans painted on the walls were  "down with ...

On Saturday, Yemen's transition government was sworn in as part of the GCC backed deal for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. The new administration consists of 35 members of both the opposition parties and loyalists, nine ...

The Libyan government promised to disarm Tripoli by the end of December in an attempt to rid the city of rogue rebels. Abdul Razzak Buhajar, Tripoli's council chief, stated the government has "assured the Tripoli council that the entire ...

Amnesty International found that the U.S. continually shipped arms to Egyptian security forces despite the use of violence to crack down on demonstrators. Amnesty noted that a "shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from the US on ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Wednesday that they won a majority of seats in the run-off elections, with Salafis coming in second. One source told Reuters that the FJP secured 39 ...

Violence has escalated in Syria ahead of another Arab League deadline, leaving 35 people dead. The Arab League threatened further sanctions if Syria did not accept international human rights observers into the country, and gave Syria until Sunday ...

Yemen's prime minister-designate, Mohammed Basindawa is expected to announce the formation of a national unity government, as it "will be formed within the next couple of days, and if they do it today it is even better," Michele Cervone d'Urso, ...

Fighting between forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and rebels in northern Syria has intensified over the past month, as at least 23 people were killed on Saturday. At least 15 are reported dead in the northwestern ...

Peter Apps, political risk correspondent for Reuters, argues that a long and bloody civil war in Syria threatens regional stability and risks "growing antagonism between the world's great powers." After months of peaceful demonstrations, an increasing number of ...

Abdelilah Benkirane, the secretary general of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), has been named Morocco's new prime minister with the task of forming a coalition government. King Mohammed VI made the announcement due to new laws that

Lebanon's Prime Minsiter Najib Mikati said he transferred funding to the U.N. backed court investigating the assisnation of former PM Rafik Hariri. The $36 million of required funding for the Netherlands-based court was made on Wednesday, as Mikati stated  “it ...

As violence escalates in Syria with reports documenting mass atrocities, international pressure has mounted on Syria to end its violent crackdown on demonstrators. The U.S. and E.U. called on the Syrian government to  “end violence immediately" and to ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council released the "Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic." The report, the "commission documents patterns of summary execution, arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, torture, including sexual violence, as ...

Writing in The Guardian, Hayder al-Khoei asserts that recent violence in Saudi Arabia's eastern city of Qatif  have "been overlooked by major western media outlets such as the BBC and CNN," as well as major Arab news outlets, and ...

The retrial for 20 Bahraini medics who were previously convicted in a military court for crimes related to the country's unrest earlier this year has begun, and they are now being retried in civilian court. Prosecutors

Yemeni News Agency announced today that Yemen will hold presidential elections on February 21st,  2012 a year ahead of schedule, as part of the power transfer deal. The elections are part of a deal that handed power ...

As demonstrations continue in Egypt, clashes erupted near Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving one person dead during the aftermath of a mass rally on Friday. It was reported that Ahmed Serour was run over by security forces, as Omar Robert Hamilton, an activist, ...

Egypt's military rulers picked Kamal el-Ganzouri to serve as the country's new prime minister to head a new cabinet after several days of demonstrations. Ganzouri, who served as ousted President Hosni Mubarak's prime minister for several years, asked Egyptians ...