Arab Regimes

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  In Oman, PM Narendra Modi Slams Congress For "Misgovernance": 10 Facts

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a crowd of nearly 20,000 Indians who gathered to hear him at the Sultan Qaboos Stadium in Muscat on Sunday. He took shots at the opposition Congress party, saying India's image had suffered due to a long list of scams in the previous regime and his government worked hard to change the "style of misgovernance"....

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  Syria Accuses US-Led Coalition Of Killing Regime Troops

  Syria expressed outragetoday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the coalition denied its warplanes hit an army base.

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  French Finance Minister Sees Syrian Regime Participating in Anti-ISIS Fight

  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said today he could envisage Syrian regime troops taking part in the fight to crush the ISIS terrorists that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.

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  Syria Dissidents Meet to Forge New Opposition Alliance

  Syrian opposition representatives met in Cairo today in a bid to forge a new, broader alliance against President Bashar Al-Assad's regime and agree on a roadmap for ending the conflict.

• Syria's Bashar al-Assad, unwavering war leader convinced of victory

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is expected to clinch re-election effortlessly next week, believes he has saved his regime from a brutal three-year insurgency, despite international isolation and calls for his departure.

• 'Barrel bomb' raids in Syria's Aleppo kill 76

  The Syrian air force was today accused of killing 76 people by unleashing barrels packed with explosives on Aleppo, a focal point for fighting between regime and rebel forces.

• Jordan protesters call for 'downfall of the regime'

  Thousands of protesters chanted the Arab Spring slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" in Jordan's capital on Friday, as demonstrations against rising prices gather force in a country so far spared the brunt of Middle East unrest.

• Arab nations urge Assad to quit as fighting rages

  Arab nations have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to swiftly give up power as his troops launched a fresh assault on rebels in Damascus and the second city Aleppo. Fighting raged on Sunday despite claims by the rebel Free Syrian Army that Assad's regime was "collapsing".

• Egyptians to choose Hosni Mubarak's successor on Wednesday

  Egyptians are being called to vote on Wednesday in the historic first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled by the Arab Spring uprising last year. The landmark poll will define the path of the Arab world's most populous nation, currently split between Islamists who scored big in legislative elections and members of the former regim...

• 'Friends of Syria' tighten screws on Damascus regime

  Western and Arab nations called on Sunday for Syria's Bashar al-Assad to be given a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan as fresh clashes in a year-long uprising claimed another 40 lives.

• Arab League wants UN peacekeepers in Syria

  The Arab League has called for the U.N. Security Council to create a joint peacekeeping force for Syria and urged Arab states to sever all diplomatic contact with President Bashar Assad's regime, the League's latest effort to bring an end to the violence that has killed more than 5,000 people.

• End violence, Arab League tells Syria again

  The Arab League demanded on Sunday that the Syrian government immediately stop all violence and allow more monitors in, as activists reported at least 10 more civilians, including two teenagers, were killed by regime forces.

• Syria violence leaves 150 dead in two days

  Security forces pursuing anti-government activists and army defectors shot dead at least 47 people in Syria on Tuesday, pushing the toll for two days of violence to nearly 150 even as the regime prepared to allow in foreign monitors under an Arab League plan aimed at stopping the bloodshed.

• 25 die in Syria as defectors battle regime forces

  Violence sweeping across Syria killed 25 people on Saturday, most of them in a battle between troops and a growing force of army defectors who have joined the movement to oust the autocratic president, activists said. The Arab League, meanwhile, agreed on the details of economic and diplomatic sanctions against the regime.

• Arab League approves sanctions against Syria

  The Arab League has approved sanctions against Syria to pressure the regime to end its deadly eight-month crackdown on dissent. Damascus slammed the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity.