Thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in Aden on Tuesday, calling for the south to regain independence. The protesters were responding to exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Baid's calls to commemorate his 1994 declaration to break away from the north. Meanwhile, the ...

Algeria and its president Abdelaziz Bouteflika have weathered the storm of Arab Spring revolutions that toppled governments in many surrounding countries. The Atlantic Council's Karim Mezran writes, however, that the country "may be teetering on the brink of a crisis, with the ...

Following clashes last week in Tunisia between security forces and supporters of the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, violence flared again over the weekend in Kairouan and Tunis leaving several injured and one dead. Police arrested 200 ...

Bahraini blogger and free-speech advocate Ali Abdulemam recently escaped from the Kingdom of Bahrain after more than two years in hiding. A team of people and outside supporters, including artist Tyler Ramsey and human rights groups Amnesty International and the American ...

This weekend saw the end of the nearly two week siege of the foreign and justice ministries by armed militias in Tripoli.  The armed groups had besieged the ministries beginning in late April demanding the passage of a ...

The political stand-off in Libya's capital continued after armed militias, who were demanding passage of a political isolation law, refused to leave their posts after the law was passed by parliament. Instead, after having their demands met, the militias formed an ...

Bahraini lawmakers are urging their government to stop the U.S. ambassador from "interfering in domestic affairs," and attending "repeated meetings with those who inspire sedition." The government has agreed to the proposal and said they would take diplomatic measures, but ...

Libya's parliament passed a law on Sunday that will ban a wide range of Gaddafi-era officials from positions in the new government, following demands from armed militias who surrounded government buildings in Tripoli last week. Following the vote, parliament spokesman Omar Hmaiden ...

On Wednesday, the Kurdistan Alliance announced that its ministers and members of parliament would resume participation in Iraq's government. The State Department's Acting Deputy Spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said that the U.S. urges "all parties to build on this ...

Increasing incidents of violence have swept across Iraq in recent weeks and Reuters reports that "tensions are at their highest in Iraq since U.S. troops pulled out more than a year ago." Bombings on Monday and Wednesday ...

Compromise on a contentious draft law that would have forced nearly a quarter of Egypt's judges into retirement has been reached between the judiciary and the president's office. A crisis over the proposed law

On Sunday, men armed with AK-47s, sniper rifles and anti-aircraft guns blocked roads around the Libyan Foreign Ministry. They surrounded the building and called for passage of a political isolation law that would ban officials who had served under the ...

The State Department's 2012 Human Rights Report on Syria noted a number of human rights problems, the most significant of which were "the regime’s massive, countrywide attacks and strategic use of citizen killings to intimidate and control; specific ...

A gun battle broke out at a Sunni protest camp north of Baghdad early Tuesday. Officials have reported that at least 20 people died and dozens injured. The clash occurred after government security forces entered the camp to make arrests, but ...

The State Department released its 2012 Human Rights Practices Report for Tunisia, which details a number of challenges including “security force laxity regarding extremist crimes, the use of excessive force during protester arrests, and some constraints on freedom of ...

Nicholas McGeehan of Human Rights Watch called on President Obama to pressure the United Arab Emirates to make genuine human rights reforms. In his op-ed for The Huffington Post, McGeehan describes instances in recent years in which former ...

Former Formula One world champion Damon Hill argued that the Grand Prix, which will be held in Manama later this month, should not go ahead. "I would not want to go to Bahrain if people are going to be ...

The Guardian released Wednesday portions of a report drafted by a presidential committee in Egypt cataloging the military's crimes against civilians during the 2011 uprising. Still unpublished after being submitted to President Mohamed Morsi and Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah in ...

A group of NGOs sent a letter regarding human rights abuses in Bahrain to racers participating in the upcoming Formula One Grand Prix in the country. The letter outlines the protest movement in Bahrain and the government's response to the protests. ...

Demonstrators marching for "our rights and freedoms" protested against planned industrial relations laws and high unemployment in the Moroccan capital Rabat on Sunday. Nearly 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets ahead of plans by Prime Minister ...