In an op-ed, professor Mark LeVine describes why democratic transitions have been so drastically different across the Middle East. He argued that the initial movement in Syria was not as successful as Egypt or Tunisia due in part to a ...

The Obama campaign responded to Mitt Romney’s Virginia Military Institute speech, citing it as lacking “meaningful specifics or outline” and “full of platitudes.” The website quoted James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations, who argued that the ...

After the Syrian military shelled the Turkish border town of Ackakale, killing five Turkish citizens, Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan responded by proclaiming, “Under the rules of engagement and international law, Turkey will never let the ...

On Tuesday (10/2), the Wilson Center hosted two panel discussion in their series entitled; "Women after the Arab Awakening." The first panel, "Today's View from the Ground", featured Dalia Ziada, Executive Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies ...

Riot police were dispatched to shut down black-market money changing operations near Tehran's merchant bazaar on October 3. The confrontation sparked violent clashes, while hundreds gathered for an impromptu demonstration to protest the rapid drop in the value of ...

U.N. Security Council members remain deeply divided on how to deal with the Syrian crisis, while both Syria and Iran have expressed discontent with perceived meddling in the conflict. "We heard calls from this podium, and on other platforms, ...

Despite the illegality of demonstrations in Saudi Arabia, sporadic protests have occurred during the last week. On September 23 a sizable rally took place at Tafiya Prison outside Riyadh to protest the imprisonment of alleged Islamic extremists, resulting in the arrest of ...

On September 25, President Barack Obama spoke at the U.N. General Assembly focusing heavily on foreign policy in the Middle East. His speech addressed recent violence directed at U.S. embassies, reiterated the administration’s support for democratic reform, encouraged ...

  Early Saturday morning the Senate passed S.Con.Res. 50, which calls on "the United States to promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet today." The bill ...

Lebanon's president Michel Suleiman demanded an explanation for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's presence in the country, amid conflicting statements from Iranian officials. General Mohammed Ali Jafari, commander of the Guard, said that high level members of the elite force were in both Syria and Lebanon, ...

Some Syrian activists expressed concern that their  Arab compatriots are more outraged over a film insulting the Prophet Muhammad than with the killing taking place in Syria.  An unnamed Syrian film director wrote, "You killed an American Ambassador for a silly ...

Several hundred protesters rallied at the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 11. Reports indicate that many scaled the walls of the embassy, including a few who took down the U.S. flag and replaced it with a black flag bearing ...

European Foreign Ministers are meeting in Cyprus today to discuss "how to best assist opposition while defusing a humanitarian crisis looming in Europe's backyard." The ministers are unlikely to support Turkey's call for the creation of safe havens in ...

Al Jazeera's Arabic and English websites were hacked on Tuesday in the latest of a string of electronic attacks by supporters of the Assad regime in Syria. For several hours the hacked Al Jazeera websites displayed a Syrian flag ...

The BBC has published a brief overview of uprisings across the Middle East, from the incremental reform movement in Morocco, to the sectarian clashes in Bahrain. In Egypt, the BBC reports that protests were "driven by poverty, rising prices, ...