The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) took Syria's seat the Arab League's Tuesday summit. Qatar's emir, who chairs the summit, formally invited the SNC to assume the seat in place of President Bashar al-Assad's government, which the League suspended ...

Photo Credit:  AFP/Bulent Kilic As part of an effort to bolster a transitional government, the Syrian National Coalition has urged the international community to recognize the opposition's right to take Syria's seats at the U.N. and Arab League, ...

The Arab League Ministerial Council concluded its meeting in Doha without reaching a conclusion to the Arab Peace Initiative or the reevaluation of the peace process. Qatar's Prime Minister, Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, said the initiative would "not ...

Opposition activists crowded around the presidential palace while government supporters converged just a few miles away on December 11 for a day of protests before Saturday's referendum. In the early morning masked gunmen of fired birdshot on ...

The newly formed National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces gained further legitimacy with backing from the Arab League and support from the international community. U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner released a statement saying, "We look forward to ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the U.S. would withdraw its support for the Syrian National Council. The Obama Administration has reportedly been in secret negotiations to establish a new opposition body which will be ...

Shadi Mokhtari wrote a piece detailing the growth of human rights movements within the Middle East. Regional voices calling for increased attention to human rights have grown in both  number and legitimacy over the past two years. "Where they ...

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Keeping Operations, Herve Ladsous, confirmed that plans are underway regarding a peacekeeping force to Syria, should the regime and the opposition agree to a cease-fire. The final decision will be contingent upon the U.N.-Arab ...

Algerian community guards in the province of Boumerdes held  a sit-in Tuesday outside their provincial headquarters to demand their pay from the month of June. The supplementary police force accused the government of suspending their pay because of their involvement in ...

Intense fighting between government forces and the Free Syrian Army continued in Damascus and Aleppo today. Syrian troops reportedly regained control over areas of Damascus taken by rebels last week, who have recently taken over several ...

In the interests of “staying in power at all costs,” Samia Errazzouki writes in Jadaliyya that Morocco, historically focusing its efforts on strengthening its ties with Europe, has shifted its focus back toward Arabia, coming largely as the ...

Spokesman Ahmed Fawzi said Kofi Annan received confirmation from the Syrian government that it had begun to withdraw from several cities on Thursday in line with Annan’s six-point peace plan, but activists reported that nothing had changed. A planning team of 10, ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will attend the Arab League summit in Baghdad  (Syria will not attend because its membership in the Arab League has been suspended) to discuss special envoy Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan for Syria. The Secretary-General ...

Reuters reported that under Turkish auspices members of the Syrian opposition have found a way to unite, paving the path forward for a democratic Syria. The unity, however, remains incomplete as Kurdish delegates and veteran dissident Haithem al Maleh ...

U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan talked with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in the hopes of calling for a ceasefire. However, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported another 83 people dead despite Annan's presence. There did not seem to be ...

Arab League members "met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss forming a joint U.N.-Arab League monitoring team in place of a league observer mission that was suspended last month." Secretary-General Nabil el-Arabi said this time the mission would be radically different than ...