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/ 24 November 2011
The Arab Spring, eurozone crisis and looming US elections has thrown the global political landscape into turmoil in 2011.
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/ 29 October 2011
Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, is calm once again after a curfew imposed because of violent post-election protests.
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/ 28 October 2011
The Libyan fighters who dragged Muammar Gaddafi from that stormwater drain made good use of an additional weapon: their cellphones.
Tunisia’s Ennahda party says it will form a new government soon, as early results give it a strong lead in the Arab Spring’s first free election.
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.
Libya’s new leaders will declare liberation on Sunday in a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed.
At least 10 people have been killed in fighting as demands mount for an end to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year tenure.
Islamists are expected to do well in Tunisia’s first democratic election today, after a popular uprising that set off protests around the Arab world.
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/ 14 October 2011
This week’s violence in Cairo marks an ominous development in the story of Egypt’s unfinished revolution.
Arab Spring or EU? Speculation ahead of the Nobel peace prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee’s chair.
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/ 10 September 2011
Egypt declared a state of high alert on Saturday as police clashed with protesters who raided a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
Syrian forces have killed dozens of protesters despite assurances by President Bashar al-Assad to Ban Ki-moon that a crackdown was over.
An agriculture minister who served under ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will go on trial for unlawfully seizing land, the official MENA news
As violence intensified in Syria, an army defector said that troops had been ordered to commit genocide and were told not to spare women and children.
Historians are racing to gather material for the national archives, but decisions about what to include have political significance.
The trial in absentia of former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, deposed in the first Arab Spring uprising, has begun in Tunisia.
It’s not Iran or Iran’s agents in Baghdad who have dealt the heaviest strategic blow to Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Middle East — but Cairo.
Deposed and exiled Tunisian autocrat Zine el Abidine Ben Ali has broken his silence to denounce his trial on corruption charges as a "masquerade".
Nato aircraft destroyed the guard towers at Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, then staged a daytime strike on the city, a Nato official has said.
Leaders of the world’s richest nations have gathered for a summit to be dominated by the Arab Spring, the economy, and Japan nuclear disaster.