Yesterday, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Wendy Sherman, traveled to Yemen. Sherman met with Vice President, Abdo Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi, other senior government officials, Yemeni civil society leaders, youth organizations, and media, to offer U.S. support ...

The U.S. State Department announced that Deputy Secretary of State William Burns arrived in Cairo Tuesday for meetings with Egyptian officials, politicians, businesspeople, and civil society leaders. Victoria Nuland, spokeswoman for the State Department, said the discussions "will ...

  After yesterday's massacre of some 250 people in the Jabal Zawiyeh region of Idlib, Syria, the Syrian National Council (SNC) issued a press released demanding the "prompt intervention to stop the massacres, which have reached the level of ...

State Department Spokesman Mark Toner announced that Ambassador Robert Ford will return to Syria. Toner's official statement says that Ford "will continue the work he was doing previously; namely, delivering the United States’ message to the people of Syria; providing ...

Abdelilah Benkirane, Morocco's new PM, has stated, "There will be no change to the kingdom's long-standing alliances with Western powers." The prime minister iterated that it is "unthinkable" to reconsider Morocco's historic alliances with the West, which are based on ...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Tuesday to mark the end of the Iraq War a month from now. The White House noted in a statement that the purpose of his trip is to deepen ...

During a recent meeting in Cairo, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, the leaders of Fatah and Hamas, set a timetable for Palestinian national elections. The elections are slated to take place May 4, 2012, in a bid to help "end the division between Hamas and ...

  Today, the international community reacted to the much-anticipated release of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) report on potential human rights violations during the February-March protests. Secretary Hillary Clinton said in a statement: "We are deeply concerned about the ...

Today, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has signed the Gulf Cooperation Council brokered agreement to "leave office in 30 days." After numerous obfuscations by Saleh, the deal was signed today in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and would allow "Mr. ...

The Assad Regime conditionally accepted the Arab League's demands to allow international observers into the country. Despite this conditional acceptance, the regime stated that they had amendments to the Arab League's proposal including "that human rights activists ...

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 ...

Speaking at a National Democratic Institute dinner honoring activists for democracy and human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed foreign policy in the wake of the Arab Spring. Clinton suggested that "the greatest single source of instability in today’s ...

Since President Bashar Al'Assad agreed to the Arab League initiative last Wednesday to halt the violence, civilian deaths have continued to occur on a daily basis and "more than 100 people have been killed there in the past ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi traveled to Benghazi to meet with Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Keib and other members of the TNC. The parties planned to discuss expansion of bilateral relations, and Salehi suggested that ...