Syrians participated in a general strike that began Sunday, closing their businesses and keeping their children home from school in an attempt to levy increased economic pressure on the Assad regime. The BBC reports that the Syrian opposition ...

A Yemeni protester was wounded after police dispersed hundreds of demonstrators demanding a secession of southern regions in the capital of former South Yemen, activists said. "Police opened fire at us. One police vehicle hit a protester and injured him," ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bahraini security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at opposition supporters as they gathered in villages around Manama to mark Ashoura and attempted to march on Pearl Square. Mohammed al-Maskati, president of the ...

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 ...

Violence continues to escalate in Yemen, as Yemeni security forces fired upon demonstrators in Taiz, killing one woman and wounding several others. Protests have sprung up across Yemen over a clause in the GCC brokered transition deal granting ...

A Bahraini military court has sentenced three athletes to one year in prison for participating in pro-democracy protests, Mohsen al-Alawi, who was in court when the verdicts were read, told Reuters. The athletes include bodybuilder Tareq al-Fursani, ...

As Bahrain's Interior Ministry stated that Mr. John Timoney, the former Miami Police Chief, will lead training programs for Bahraini security forces, the Bahraini Youth Society for Human Rights expressed concern over the appointment due to Timoney's past human rights ...

Speaking at a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, U.N. High Commissioner Navi Pillay stated that Syria faces the prospect of "full-fledged civil war" due to the unrelenting repression by the Assad regime's security forces unless ...

Jordan's new Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh won a vote of confidence from parliament Thursday following days of discussion regarding his government and policies. The vote tallied "89-25, with three abstentions and two MPs absent from the 120-seat lower ...

Amnesty International released a report criticizing a draft law in Saudi Arabia that would allow "peaceful acts of dissent" to be prosecuted as "terrorist crime." The report, entitled Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security,

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 ...

Tunisia state news is reporting that the country's state of emergency has been extended through the end of the year: "Interim President Fouad Mebazza signed the decree extending the state of emergency for the fourth time since it ...

Today Turkey's Foreign Minister announced that Turkey would "suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze the assets of Bashar al-Assad's government as part of sanctions against its former ally." The sanctions are designed to target the Syrian leadership ...

Two Yemeni soldiers were shot Tuesday in Aden during a gathering of thousands of protesters demanding secession from the north. Demonstrators chanted, "The people want to liberate the south." In northern Yemen, at least 26 people were wounded ...

After the resignation of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al-Sabah, it has been reported that outgoing Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah is likely to assume the position. There was speculation that ...