Bahraini opposition members clashed with police during a protest march Friday, injuring Sheik Ali Salman, the leader of al-Wefaq, Bahrain's largest opposition party. Riot police reportedly used tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets on the crowd of about ...

Despite an attempted Morocco veto, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed German Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber as the new U.N. Special Representative to Western Sahara and as head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.  Weisbrod-Weber previously served ...

Morocco's Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane and his Tunisian counterpart  Hamadi Jebali met in Rabat on Friday to sign several new partnership agreements on trade, technology, and renewable energy. The two also agreed to loosen restrictions on travel, employment, ...

The Iranian government executed brothers Abdul Rahman, Taha, and Jamshid Heidari Monday on charges of “enmity against God” for allegedly killing a police officer, an allegation international rights groups call false. The three were arrested last year in Khuzestan ...

Transitional Prime Minister and Ben Ali era figure Beji Caid Essebsi announced the formation of a new party at a rally Saturday attended by around 1,400 people. Essebsi's new party, called Nida’ Tounes or Call of Tunisia, is intended to united all ...

In a press conference Monday, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces pledged to hand over power to the presidency by the end of the month. General Mohammed al-Assar said, "we'll never tire or be bored from assuring everyone ...

Mohammed Morsi held an early morning press conference in Cairo where he declared victory in Egypt's presidential runoff. At the time of the announcement, Morsi had roughly 52% of the tallied vote, but Ahmed Shafiq's campaign

According to reports from official sources, the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will institute a new constitutional annex within the next 48 hours to expand their power until a new parliament is elected. The annex is ...

The Libyan electoral commission announced Saturday the rules for the country's historic election on July 7th. The commission approved 2,501 independents and 1,206 political organizations, of which 142 are fielding candidates, and campaigning will begin this Monday and ...

The group Women2Drive postponed their planned Sunday protest to next Friday in light of the death of Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz. The group Friday had called for women with international drivers licenses to get ...

Citing the improved security situation in the country, Tunisia's Ministry of the Interior Saturday lifted the nighttime curfew imposed on Tuesday because of rioting. Few violent clashes have broken out in the last 48 hours, and groups like Ennahdha ...

The U.N. suspended its observer mission to Syria Saturday, citing escalating violence that has impeded its work and threatened its monitors. The mission's chief, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, said the roughly 300 observers will remain in Syria indefinitely, however, ...

Ennahdha leader Rached Ghannouchi called on Tunisians to protest on Friday to “protect the revolution and things considered sacred” in part due to the outrage against an art exhibit many found insulting to Islam. “We support freedom of expression and ...

An appeals court in Bahrain convicted nine medics Thursday for "politicizing their profession, breaching medical ethics, and...  their call and involvement in the overthrow of the monarchy" stemming from their involvement in treating protesters last year. One medic

The trial of Khalid Gueddar, the first political cartoonist to ever depict the king, had his trial delayed  from Wednesday to September 5th. Gueddar was arrested two weeks ago and was told the following day that his charges were for ...

A court in Tunisia sentenced ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to 20 years in prison in absentia for "inciting disorder, murder and looting." The charges stem from an incident in which four youths were killed while attempting to prevent ...

The Libyan militia in Zintan detaining two lawyers from the International Criminal Court refused to let an ICC delegation visit with their colleagues on Tuesday. Lawyer Melinda Taylor and interpreter Helene Assaf  remain in the custody on suspicion of smuggling documents to ...

Mehdi Hasan reports in The Guardian on what he calls "a new climate of fear" in Turkey due to escalated arrests of students, journalists, and artists who have spoken out against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government. ...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani announced Sunday that opponents of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lack enough support for a no confidence vote. Maliki opponents say they delivered their petition to the president's office last week with signatures from 176 lawmakers, but over ...

The Syrian military continued heavy shelling of Homs and Deraa throughout the weekend, killing at least 50 people on Saturday. The Russian foreign minister called the violence alarming, but reiterated Russia's opposition to intervention by the U.N. ...