Bahrain's crown prince says there will be "a time and a place" for him to participate in the slow-moving political dialogue in the divided Gulf nation but not yet.
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Opposition youths skirmished with police after 10,000 Bahrainis rallied peacefully for democracy on Friday (April 21), two days before a Formula One car race that puts the Gulf Arab kingdom in the global spotlight.
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Formula One race to go ahead despite violence between anti-government protesters and police near the capital Manama.
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Newly re-elected Hamas leader Khaled Meshal said in a speech yesterday that his terror organizaton has been hit hard financially by the Arab Spring.
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Tunisia's new prime minister, Ali Larayedh, told AFP on Wednesday that the country whose revolution sparked the Arab Spring uprisings was threatened by both "terrorism" and social unrest.Tunisia since the 2011 revolution has seen the
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A top British university has cancelled a conference on the Arab Spring in the United Arab Emirates, citing curbs imposed by the Gulf state, which has placed limits on foreign research groups in the past two years.
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Many Arabs are proud of their new freedom to speak out, but it has proved trickier than many expected to create prosperity, fill power vacuums left by entrenched rulers and convert police states into stable democracies.
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A 8-year-old Bahraini boy killed due to the inhalation of poisonous tear gas that riot police used during a protest in January 2013.
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Bahrain's Arab Spring started almost two years ago. Since the government outlawed the mainly peaceful demonstrations. At least 80 people have died since the start of the unrest in February 2011
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entertainment is no justification to highlight physical or behavioural flaws
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The ferment in Kuwait isn't about poverty or sectarianism – but democracy. Blaiming it on Egyptian Islamists is a risky strategy
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Police in Kuwait used teargas, stun grenades and baton charges on Sunday to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators protesting against changes to the electoral law which the opposition has called a constitutional coup by the government.
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Bahraini Shiite rights activist Nabeel Rajab has gone on hunger strike, a local rights group said Saturday, just two days after he was briefly released from jail to attend his mother's funeral.
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Riot police in Bahrain used water cannons and tear gas on Friday to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters trying to reach a heavily guarded site that was once the hub of their uprising
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Police in Bahrain clashed with mourners at a funeral for a 23-year-old man with sickle cell anemia who died in custody, officials said Tuesday.
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Banning mainstream media from reporting on the Arab Spring threw the governments of affected states into a battle with social media hijacked by an uncontrollable opposition propaganda genie, media monitor Sharif Nashashibi.
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Last week Anti-American rage that began this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the Middle East and beyond , with violent and sometimes deadly protests that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, breached two more United States Embassies and even targeted diplomatic properties of Germany,Britain.
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UN says Bahrain government has cracking down on critics,.The United Nations has singled out nations for cracking down on critics, saying most of those countries' governments are going unpunished for their acts of reprisal.
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Every move by the Egyptian president has been carefully calibrated to avoid controversy
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The Arab Spring will undoubtedly go down in history as an important moment in the liberation of the Arab people from tyranny. But, like most major political upheavals, it has had a number of unfortunate and largely unforeseen consequences.
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CNN is seriously compromising its journalism in Bahrain and other Arab States. The Guardian correspondent indicates CNNi's pursuit of and reliance on revenue from Middle East regimes increased significantly after the 2008 financial crisis, which caused the network to suffer significant losses in corporate sponsorships.
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A senior Swiss diplomat, Peter Maurer, has admitted being frustrated at double standards present in the international community’s response to the Arab Spring.
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There is an urgent need to address lingering disputes, reassure smaller states of their position and create a clear blueprint of what the alliance will be about
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Middle East Region needs assistance to make the transition from autocracy, but the Obama administration is preoccupied with the presidential elections
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The solutions for the middle east problems are so simple .... but what the Arab regimes do is so different... coz that is against their benefits.
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South Sudan and Sudan have reached an agreement that would allow resumption of oil shipments vital to both nations.
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Sarah Attar, who ran with her hair and limbs covered, may have finished out of the medal count, but she certainly won over the crowd in London.
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Libya's new national assembly has elected former opposition leader Mohammed el-Megarif as its president.
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Both the East and West must stop giving dictators everywhere a false sense of indispensability
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Demonstrations in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and many other cities are loosening dictator Bashir's grip on power. The demonstrators have been flooding the streets of Khartoum since June 19, 2012, a day after the government announced the removal of subsidies for consumer goods and fuel.
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