Yesterday, Syrian security forces arrested 14 human rights activists, including iconic blogger Razan Gazzawi, and Mazen Darwish, leader of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression. As a precurser to the arrests Soazig Dollet, Middle East and North Africa researcher for ...

Russia and China vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned the ongoing violence in Syria and supported the Arab League's plan to end the crackdown. The vote, which shortly followed the massacre in Homs that

Yesterday evening, Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad began an assault on the city of Homs that has killed more than 30 people. "There has been a terrifying massacre," reported Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the British-based Syrian Observatory ...

Last week, 9 people were killed in a clash between militias around  Gharyan (50 miles from Tripoli). The fight started when the Gharyan militia wanted to arrest people in Assabia suspected to have ties with the former President Muammar Gadhafi' s regime. ...

Today, Australia Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd, in a joint appearance with his French counterpart, Alain Juppe, stated, "Our view in Australia is that Assad must go." This echos what Juppe had said previous when meeting with Volkan Bozkir, Turkish parliament's ...

Thousands gathered in Sana'a and Taiz to call on former President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be prosecuted for ordering violence against demonstrators. Protesters chanted slogans against the recently brokered Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) deal that gave Saleh amnesty ...

According to Voice of America, Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi may be the only candidate in Yemen's February presidential election, an idea that is drawing wide support from opposition parties and Yemen's diplomatic partners. The Joint Meeting Parties, Yemen's opposition ...

Syrian State TV has condemned a ''conspiracy'' against the regime of the President Bashar al-Assad, after the UN revised its death toll estimate to 5,000 killed. Bashar Jaafari, Syria's UN ambassador, said the UN briefing regarding the deaths was ...

Peter Apps, political risk correspondent for Reuters, argues that a long and bloody civil war in Syria threatens regional stability and risks "growing antagonism between the world's great powers." After months of peaceful demonstrations, an increasing number of ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov likened the conflict in Syria to civil war after an attack by defected soldiers on a heavily fortified military base in the Damascus suburbs. Lavrov stated that the Arab League "must call on all ...

Jamal Benomar, U.N. envoy to Yemen, stated that a compromise between the Saleh's regime and the opposition is possible, despite outstanding issues. "If there is political will, a compromise is possible" said Benomar, who returned to Sana'a on November ...

TNC troops have reportedly captured Bani Walid, among the remaining strongholds of pro-Gadhafi fighters, after a 6-week siege. A group claiming to represent the people of the town offered a truce to Libya's new government on Monday, saying they would ...

Mahmoud Jibril will head Libya's post-revolutionary ruling body, showing the country's leaders commitment to stability. Ali Tarhouni will head the oil and finance portfolios of the executive board of the National Transitional Council.  Mr. Abdel Jalil said "the executive board ...

Sitting down for an interview with the Washington Post, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh stated that his vice-president (who been delegated the authority to sign on Saleh's behalf) is ready to sign the GCC initiative that would allow ...

Thousands of Yemeni citizens returned to the streets, apparently rejecting President Ali Abdullah Saleh's latest proposal for a transition of power, and opposition members accused Saleh of political maneuvering. Additionally, bands of tribesman stormed a Republican Guards' base ...

President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly returned to Yemen and called for a nationwide ceasefire as violence raged throughout the capital. Jamal Benomar, the UN envoy to Yemen, said  that the deteriorating security situation, and the reluctance of both sides to ...

Clashes claimed six more lives in Sana'a as tribesmen joined battles between rival military units. International mediators promoted a Gulf-initiated peace deal aimeed at halting the political impasse that has gripped Yemen for months, but the fighting continued ...

"Hundreds of thousands" of Yemeni protesters took to the streets throughout the country chanting "No deal. No maneuvering. The president should leave."  The demonstrations came as a response to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Monday announcement that he had