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The moderate Islamist Ennahda party has claimed victory in Tunisia's historic elections, after initial results appeared to show it had won the biggest...
Tunisians are preparing to vote in the first elections since President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted as part of Arab Spring protests. There ar...
With Colonel Gaddafi's death marking the success of the people over a vicious tyrant, the Huffington Post UK looks back at the rise and fall of dictat...
The death toll continues to rise in Syria where nearly seven months of violence has led to the deaths of over 3,000 civilians. The UN Security Council, hit by a double veto from China and Russia earlier in the month, are divided and powerless.
A chorus of “Libya, Libya, Libya” echoed across London’s Knightsbridge. The Libyan Embassy, situated opposite Hyde Park, seemed a natural pla...
Libyan National Transitional Council fighters say they have captured the last positions held by Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists in the deposed leader's ho...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has travelled to Cairo to announce a package worth more than £5 million to help Egypt's transition to democracy whil...
On Monday bankers and financiers working in London's financial district must have had a rude awakening. To 'greet' them on their way to work is a squ...
This week the Sunday papers alerted the public to the Government's upcoming - and potentially explosive - decision over what to do about a criminal in...
Hundreds of secret hospitals are operating underground in Syria, treating injured protesters and opposition members, as a brutal crackdown against pro...
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to three female campaigners – the first time a woman has won for seven years. Yemeni democracy activist ...
A Syrian human rights activist awarded for her courageous journalism has urged the international community to place real pressure on the regime to sto...
Arab Spring and mumpreneur are among the new words which have entered the latest edition of a major dictionary. Around 70 fresh terms...
Tony Blair's record as prime minister means he lacks the "great qualities" to be part of the Quartet on the Middle East, the defence secretary has sai...
The spontaneous uprising of the discontented in Cairo appears to have swept away the dictator seemingly effortlessly but the old structures of army, police and secret service are still in place and threaten to continue an only marginally relaxed, autocratic regime with the help of the multifaceted Muslim Brotherhood.
For a truly democratic system to emerge in Libya, Islamists must be part of the process. Whether their claims to support pluralism are genuine or whether they hide a more hardline and intolerant agenda remains to be seen, however.
Cameron needs to prove that he is serious about supporting women's rights, abroad and at home. He has to show that there will be no negotiations without women at the table, and that women are crucial no matter where they live, and no matter what their backgrounds.
The unrest in Syria has been going on for six months now, and may well continue for a long while yet. Damascus, rich in security, is and has been calm and quiet, the streets all but untroubled.
Proposals mooted for immediate sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's government have been dropped from a new draft UN resolution on Syria. ...
Days of violence in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa have culminated with the death of nearly one hundred people and a fragile ceasefire that has left the ...
A protest begins in January in a small country over domestic conditions and democratic rights. Within months large neighbouring states are also in revolt, challenging the oppressive forces that dominate them.
The true cost of the UK's involvement in the Libya conflict could be as high as £1.75bn - almost seven times as much as government estimates, accordi...
Saudi Arabia may allow women to vote and stand for election for the first time, it has been reported. Under proposals outlined on Sunday by the Mid...
At least 16 anti-government protestors have been killed and 55 wounded in the latest state crackdown assault on dissent in Sanaa, a medic at a field h...
Prime Minister David Cameron is to challenge world leaders to seize the "massive opportunity" presented by the Arab Spring, as he flies the flag for i...
