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 ...

Writing for Fair Observer, Alexander Innes contends that the $53 million arms sale to Bahrain is "designed to check Iranian regional influence but would in fact do the opposite," adding that "it is in the American national ...

Abdelilah Benkirane, the secretary general of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), has been named Morocco's new prime minister with the task of forming a coalition government. King Mohammed VI made the announcement due to new laws that

Tunisia state news is reporting that the country's state of emergency has been extended through the end of the year: "Interim President Fouad Mebazza signed the decree extending the state of emergency for the fourth time since it ...

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, ...

Today Turkey's Foreign Minister announced that Turkey would "suspend all financial dealings with Syria and freeze the assets of Bashar al-Assad's government as part of sanctions against its former ally." The sanctions are designed to target the Syrian leadership ...

Herman Cain has released his "Vision for Foreign Policy and National Security," detailing his assessment of "key country relations" throughout the globe. He comments on several Middle Eastern countries, including Libya, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Egypt, ...

Two Yemeni soldiers were shot Tuesday in Aden during a gathering of thousands of protesters demanding secession from the north. Demonstrators chanted, "The people want to liberate the south." In northern Yemen, at least 26 people were wounded ...

Lebanon's Prime Minsiter Najib Mikati said he transferred funding to the U.N. backed court investigating the assisnation of former PM Rafik Hariri. The $36 million of required funding for the Netherlands-based court was made on Wednesday, as Mikati stated  “it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has submitted a new media law to parliament as part of a promised package of reforms, which removes criminal penalties for defamation and replaces them with fines. Bouteflika promised a host of reforms, including a freer ...

According to Radio Zamaneh, prison authorities have agreed to keep political prisoners in a separate ward after a six-day hunger strike. Four of the prisoners, including Mohammad Moradi, Vali Doroodi, Ali Salehi and Omar Emami, are suspected to have participated in a Kurdish political party and ...

Hundreds of Tunisian students clashed at a university over Islamists students' demands for segregated classes and the right for women to wear full-face veils. Witnesses stated that the demonstration at Manouba university near Tunis broke down into fighting ...

Libya's new leaders admitted on Tuesday that some prisoners held by the revolutionary forces were subjected to abuse, but they insisted that it was not pervasive. This comes as the U.N. released a report detailing mistreatment of ...

Yemen's prime minister-designate Mohammed Basindwa promised to announce a new cabinet "within days", saying Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates would help the country with oil and electricity. Basindwa was tasked under a Gulf-brokered peace plan with forming the ...

A Bahraini court has postponed the trial of 61 athletes and sports officials charged with illegal assembly and inciting hatred against Bahrain’s monarchy. Defense attorney Mohsen al-Alawi said the hearing was rescheduled for January4 because most of ...

As violence escalates in Syria with reports documenting mass atrocities, international pressure has mounted on Syria to end its violent crackdown on demonstrators. The U.S. and E.U. called on the Syrian government to  “end violence immediately" and to ...

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 ...