Ammar Abdulhamid of the Tharwa Foundation suggests, "What Syria needs today in order to fulfill the goals that the revolutionaries have set ... is a comprehensive revolution that will have to include restructuring the state and its institutions." ...

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 ...

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 ...

ESPN has released a short film documenting the situation of several Bahraini athletes who participated in pro-reform protests earlier this year. The video asserts that approximately 200 athletes were arrested in a government crackdown, many of whom underwent torture and ...

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 ...

Opposition protesters marched in several cities throughout Syria on Friday and voiced support for an internationally enforced no-fly zone. Dozens of protesters have been killed as well, mostly in the city of Hama ...

Ambassador Robert Ford told Reuters that even though time is against President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian opposition need to come to an agreement on the details of a transition and type of government that would replace Assad."The government violence is ...

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 ...

Kurdish leaders gathered on Monday in the Swedish parliament to affirm the Syrian Kurdish community's commitment to the opposition movement and a Syrian future without President Bashar Assad and Baathist Party rule. The gathering brought 50 participants together, including ...

According to activists, tens of thousands of people protested in Bahrain's restive city of Sitra in response to the death of a 14-year-old boy, Ali Jawad Ahmad, at the hands of security forces during an anti-government protest on Wednesday.  Crowds

Syrian opposition leaders meeting in Istanbul, Turkey moved closer to forming an opposition national council but mistrust and deep divisions have apparently stymied the process. The opposition is deeply fragmented along ideological and sectarian lines, and despite their ...

Echoing Brian Whitaker's discussion of Saudi Arabia’s intentions in condemning Syria earlier this week, F. Gregory Gause argues in Foreign Policy that it is incorrect to focus on the hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia condemning other authoritarian regimes in the region. ...

Despite the near absence of international media coverage on events in Bahrain, low level but widespread protests persist throughout the country, including protests last night in Al Dair, Al Kawara, and Qariya. Christopher Davidson, writing for OpenDemocracy,

Today, a Bahraini court sentenced eight Shia activists to life in prison and issued long jail terms for 13 others. They were charged with trying to overthrow Bahrain’s monarchy and of having links to "a terrorist organization abroad." Fourteen of the ...