Britain has no plans to arm Syrian rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad, the foreign secretary said today. William Hague insisted the ...
Fresh reports of intense violence by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs have emerged as residents "begged" for international help. The bo...
Syrian government forces have continued shelling the city of Homs for a fifth day in some of the heaviest bombardment seen so far, prompting the UN to...
Abdullah Chaudhry and Ed Winfield debate the consequences of the Arab Spring ahead of Thursday's debate at the Cambridge Union. Abdullah contends in...
The Syrian Army has launched a fresh assault on the rebel stronghold of Homs, where 95 people are said to have been killed in a sustained attack on Mo...
For better or worse, the notoriety of the internet stepped up a notch last year. Civil unrest was a common theme in the news - not just here in the UK, but throughout the world - the US had the Occupy movements, we had 'the riots' and of course, Arabic countries had the Arab Spring. The resounding driving force behind these events? Social networking.
Frantic diplomatic negotiations are still underway at the UN Security Council to agree a watered-down resolution on Syria that would secure a yes vote...
Who are the incubators of a real democratic renewal in the Arab Spring? After talking to young Egyptians, among them many intellectuals, who returned to their homeland having studied at prestigious English universities, I feel confronted with a rather contradictory picture.
Three protesters have now been killed after riots broke out in both the coastal city of Suez and Cairo in response to violent clashes at a football ma...
The Egyptian parliament is to hold an emergency session after 74 people died and around 250 were injured at violence clashes at the end of a football ...
One year after the first stirrings of the Arab Spring, we are still only beginning to digest the implications of this momentous turn of events. Yet, as commentators debate the political, economic, and religious consequences of the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and elsewhere, few have discerned their impact in less conspicuous quarters. Yet, far from the spotlight of media attention, the effects of Arab Spring are also rippling through the murky world of intelligence gathering.
Former Labour Minister Lord Malloch-Brown made an in-depth critique of the Foreign Office's handling of the Arab Spring on Tuesday to a select committ...
Twitter, the social networking site used by millions across the world, will begin to restrict its tweets. In a blog titled "Tweets still must flow" , ...
Being a Palestinian-American has involved a lifetime of being identified through my Arab identity, and hearing clichéd jokes about airport security, suicide bombings, and the abundance of pita bread in one of our two freezers at home.
As the north African leaders were facing the music for their years of misrule, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni had a stern warning for the opposition in his country.
It was not Facebook, Twitter or YouTube that brought down Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian people did that. But this does not mean that social media and Internet‐based technologies played no role, or that their role was insignificant, as some have alleged.
2011 was the year where dictatorial governance was proved to be unsustainable and ineffective. However, while dictatorial rule is in its last days in ...
If there is one thing guaranteed to have heated up the recent exchanges between the US and Iran, it is the issue of oil. As the US pressed for stricter sanctions against Tehran's attempts to press ahead with its nuclear programme, so Iran retaliated with a threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
No prizes for guessing the right answer. China and Russia are the culprits. China is wavering and may change its stance in the coming weeks. But Moscow is still determined to fight on. It has recently defended the shipment of arms to the Damascus regime which is committing crimes against humanity in violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Nearly a year after Egyptians took to the streets in an uprising that led to the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak, it is time for the army to return to barracks and have nothing more to do with the running of the country, the writer Ahdaf Soueif said at a panel discussion in London last night.
A new university course focusing on women, Islam and media has become the first module in the UK to explore honour crimes and arranged marriage. Th...
A year ago Jandali was an up and coming classical musician, whose talent had given him a ticket out of Syria and to the US. Today, Malek Jandali is the thorn in the side of Assad's regime - a composer whose song Watani Ana has become the clarion call of the protest movement in Syria.
David Cameron is making his first trip to Saudi Arabia since becoming prime minister, amid warnings from human rights groups and MPs over the sale of ...
Those expecting UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon to use his second term as a period of quiet consolidation, before beginning the slow process of winding down, were in for a surprise as the New Year began.
I read with interest Dr. Joseph Olmert's article Something Is Happening in Jordan. The excellent article raised a number of contentious points and I am not going in this piece to analyse every point but would like to clarify a number of issues which Dr. Olmert touched on in his article.
