President Bashar al-Assad said a victory for his army in the city of Aleppo would be a “huge step” towards ending the devastating five-year civil war.
A five-year probe into CIA detention centres on Polish territory has ground to a halt, said to be due to a lack of cooperation from US officials.
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/ 15 February 2012
When Moncef Marzouki, a dissident transformed into Tunisia’s president, paid a visit to Algeria, Tunisian flags flew from lamp posts in his honour.
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/ 31 January 2012
An Islamist opposition party leader says Algeria’s government will ignite unrest if it tries to rig elections in May to keep its grip on power.
A secular Tunisia could be a thing of the past as moderate Islamists are believed to be ahead in Tunisia’s vote count after this year’s uprising.
Tunisian voters poured into polling stations to vote in their country’s first free election, 10 months after the start of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Libyan army vehicles have crossed into Niger in what may be a negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state.
Western powers and Libya’s neighbours fear that the power vacuum could allow unsecured weapons to end up in the hands of Islamist militants.
Libya’s new leadership says it is committed to democracy, while it prioritises areas for spending the billions released from Gaddafi’s frozen assets.
Tunisian police fired shots into the air on Thursday to try to disperse hundreds of protesters demanding that ministers leave the new government.