The Libyan General National Congress rejected Prime Minister-elect Mustafa Abu Shagur's proposal for an emergency government on October 7. The plan, composed of 10 governing ministries, failed to pass by a vote of 125 to 44. Seventeen members of parliament ...

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of downtown Amman on October 5 to call for a boycott of the upcoming parliamentary elections. The demonstration was the largest since weekly protests began in early 2011. Jordanian opposition groups ...

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 ...

Photo Credit: Reuters Following mass protests, Libyan President Mohamed al-Magarief ordered any militia that does not fall under the government’s authority to disband within 48 hours, an action praised by Secretary Hillary Clinton. The militias ...

Libya's National Congress voted to bar any current members from serving as prime minister in the next government. The vote passed overwhelmingly in favor of the motion, in what is a major step in defining the separation of powers ...

At a press briefing on August 23, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland confirmed U.S. support for Egypt's $4.8 billion loan request to the IMF. She outlined Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's commitment to a three-stage process which would allow ...

A new draft abortion law in Turkey would require women to listen to the fetal heartbeat and watch a video on the procedure before finalizing their decision. The commission drafting the law at the request of Prime Minister Recep ...

The government's response to Iran's twin earthquakes has sparked controversy both in Iran and in the international community. Members of parliament for Eastern and Western Azerbaijan Provinces blasted weak aid efforts and state media coverage of the disaster, saying relief ...

With four months elapsed since Algeria's legislative elections in May and no new government yet named, politicians from several parties are expressing  frustration and concern for what many call an unprecedented government absence, even for Ramadan. "There is ...

Habib Khedher, the committee head in charge of drafting Tunisia's new constitution, announced that the document will not be ready until February 2013, four months later than the October 2012 date promised by the government until now. A ...

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Minister of Defense Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi to retire Sunday, along with Chief of Staff Sami Enan. Morsi then appointed military intelligence chief Abdel Fatah El-Sisi to succeed Tantawi and Sedky Sobhy to replace Enan. The move came after ...

Libya's newly seated National Congress elected Mohammed Magarief of the National Front as the body's speaker, who will now effectively serve as Libya's head of state. Magarief, a formerly exiled dissident from Benghazi who survived three assassination attempts ...

Only four members of Kuwait's 50 seat parliament attended a session on Tuesday to swear in a new cabinet, in the second such boycott in a week. The speaker of the assembly said that he will not try to ...

The Secretary General of Egypt's Constitutional Assembly, Amr Darrag, announced Tuesday that the country's new constitution will be drafted by the week's end. According to Darrag, all committees have finished reviewing proposals and will submit their suggestions to the drafting committee, who will ...

The three-party Islamist coalition, the Green Algeria Alliance, faces possible dissolution as one of its parties, the Movement of Society for Peace, reels from internal turmoil. Amar Ghoul of the Movement recently resigned and at least 20 MPs loyal to ...

For the first time in its history, the Istiqlal Party, Morocco's oldest and second largest party, failed  a faction of the party unhappy with the El Fassi family and the direction of the party. Without a unanimous candidate, the ...

Tunisia's largest party, Ennahda, concluded their annual party conference Tuesday by re-electing Rached Ghannouchi as the party's leader. After days of tense debate, Ghannouchi garnered 73% of the vote in a victory for moderate forces within ...

Tunisian President Moncef al-Marzouki met Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo Friday, where the two spoke jointly on improving bilateral ties, aiding Syrians, and supporting Palestinians. The leaders both stressed their concern for Syria and their desire to work ...

Jordan's Islamist Action Front announced that they will boycott upcoming parliamentary elections in protest of a new electoral law which they say does not go far enough. The controversial law moderately expanded the number of seats in Jordan's lower house that ...