Riot police in Bahrain have raided an Arab spring–related art show organized by Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, a political opposition group in the small gulf kingdom, the Guardian reports. In a ...
Correction appended: Aug. 25, 2013, 7:27 p.m. E.T. While violence rages in Cairo, the dysfunctional center of the Arab Spring, another unresolved conflict from that season of unrest in the region is ...
With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...
Bahrain, a small Gulf monarchy, faces growing pressure from citizens to cut its recently established ties with Israel — a microcosm of the tensions spreading across the Mideast. By Vivian Nereim ...
The promise to defend Bahrain could serve as a template for other Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are also pressing for stronger American security commitments. By ...
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s former autocratic president whose extravagant life and oppressive rule inspired the first Arab Spring revolts of 2011, died Thursday in exile in Saudi Arabia. He was ...