Kuwait's ongoing political crisis worsened Tuesday after only five members of the 50 member house and a handful of cabinet ministers turned up for the parliament's first session since being reinstated by a court ruling. National Assembly speaker Jassim al-Kharafi ...

The leader of the Libyan army, Khalifa Hafter, has survived an assassination attempt that he says was made by supporters of former president Gaddafi.  Hafter himself is a former Gaddafi regime figure, but he defected in 1987 and ...

Protests by unofficial Yemeni police loyal to ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh turned violent Tuesday when the demonstrators stormed the Interior Ministry, killing 10 people in clashes with security forces. The demonstrators had been protesting  outside the ministry ...

A new law in Bahrain intended to improve working conditions and end human trafficking, will force private companies to compensate dismissed employees and extend annual and sick leave, or face fines. According to Wael Mahdi of Bloomberg, workers will now get ...

Saudi Arabian authorities released a prominant blogger Saturday after spending more than a year in jail without charges. 35 year-old Nazir al-Majid was arrested last March joining anti-government protests in the mostly Shiite eastern province of Qatif. Rights activists last year launched ...

Eleven human rights, religious, and peace organizations signed a letter to Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, urging him keep channels open for Iranian civilian access to food, medicine, and other humanitarian goods and services. The letter ...

Protests have intensified in Bahrain, with demonstrators calling for an end to the reign of the ruling monarchy. Opposition groups claim that at least 25 demonstrations have occurred daily in the kingdom since the holy month of Ramadan ...

Hundreds of former officials and leading public figures urged Jordan's King Abdullah to delay the upcoming parliamentary elections, warning that holding the polls amid a nationwide boycott may tip the country into a deep political crisis. According to the ...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have arrested another ten Islamist dissidents, bringing the total to twenty in recent weeks. Most are affiliated with the Islamist group al-Islah, including Hamad Roqait, one of the organization's founders who was taken away ...

Tunisia's Finance Minister Houcine Dimassi resigned this week, citing excessive spending and the recent firing of the head of Tunisia's Central Bank Mustapha Kamel Nabli. Dimassi called the decision to dismiss Nabli "random and unfair" and "something which will have very negative ...

In the latest development in the case of six Moroccan protesters arrested Sunday, a judge has reportedly charged the activists with involvement in the "banned February 20 Movement” among other charges including violence against police. February ...

Photo Credit: Reuters Saudi Arabian security forces opened fire on Shia protesters demonstrating Friday in city of Qatif in the latest round of unrest in the kingdom's Eastern Province. The shots injured  several of the hundreds marching in ...

The State Department's Office of the Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions released two fact sheets that highlight government assistance to Libya and Tunisia, putting out statements on July 20 and today, respectively. The statements ...

As Syrian troops prepare to renew their assault on the northern city of Aleppo, the U.S. Department of State has said it fears that government forces are preparing to carry out a massacre. The former head of the U.N. Observer ...

Five Moroccan February 20th activists arrested in Casablanca during Sunday's demonstrations began  the five and one additional activist on Wednesday with insulting and assaulting public officials as well as demonstrating without permission. Lawyers for the activists allege that their clients were tortured during ...

Protests by workers demanding pay turned violent in Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, as demonstrators sacked the local Ennahda party office and attempted to torch the building as well as the provincial government headquarters. Police ...