Today, the New York-based NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated in a press release that a Libyan diplomat died 24 hours after being held in militia custody.  Dr. Omar Brebesh was posted in France from 2004 until 2008, first as cultural attaché and ...

Today, early election results in Kuwait indicate that more than 30 of the 50 parliament seats have been secured by the opposition movement, which includes Islamists, liberals and independents, as well as youth groups who cite inspiration from the Arab ...

Protesters stormed a government office in Benghazi, when the head of the National Transitional Council (NTC), Mustafa Abdel Jalil was inside. The crowd smashed windows and demanded the resignation of the government. This was the most serious and angry ...

On January 19, the International Republican Institute (IRI) released its assessment of the third and final round of voting for Egypt's lower house of parliament, the People's Assembly. This phase of the election ended last week, with ...

An Iraqi official stated that the Sunni bloc of the Cabinet, Iraqiya, has been suspended since boycotting its sessions. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh stated that with the suspension, the Sunni ministers will not be "allowed to manage ministries, and all ...

Syrian President  Bashar al-Assad gave a televised speech at Damascus University, announcing he would not be stepping down from power, and affirming his belief that he still has the Syrian people's support. In a speech that lasted almost two ...

  In a paper entitled Salafis and Sufis in Egypt, which was released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jonathon Brown reviews Egypt's latest election and the gains made by a number of Islamist parties- particularly the Muslim Brotherhood ...

On Saturday, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, ruling military leaders, and the prime minister in Egypt. The Brotherhood released a statement noting three top officials met with Kerry and U.S. Ambassador ...

The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said on Wednesday that they won a majority of seats in the run-off elections, with Salafis coming in second. One source told Reuters that the FJP secured 39 ...

On Tuesday, Algeria's national assembly voted to continue the ban on the main Islamist party, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). The vote will maintain the two decade old ban, as parliamentarians debated proposals for a new electoral law. ...

Al Jazeera English reported on Tuesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will grant Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri extra powers through a constitutional amendment. Ganzouri stated that the SCAF "would issue a decree within hours to hand him ...

Abdul Moez Ibrahim, the head of the Egyptian supreme election committee, told a news conference on Friday that voter turnout for the first round of elections was 62 percent, and added "it is the highest voter turnout since ...

As Egyptians flocked to the polls on Tuesday, the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood's affiliate, claimed the lead in the first stage of parliamentary elections. State television reported that the peaceful polls had a high voter turnout, ...

After the resignation of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al-Sabah, it has been reported that outgoing Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah is likely to assume the position. There was speculation that ...

Sherif Tarek writes at AhramOnline that Egypt's first round of voting in parliamentary elections on Monday took place with few violations. Despite the violence and upheaval that raged in Tahrir for the week preceding the elections, polling stations ...

POMED Senior Research Associate Daphne McCurdy analyzes the political landscape in Morocco through the lens of last week's parliamentary elections. McCurdy, in an article for Foreign Policy, contends that "the current path of reform initiated by the monarchy is ...