Arab Revolts

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  Egypt's Ex-President Mohammed Morsi Dies In Court While Facing Trial

  Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, collapsed in court and died Monday while facing trial, prompting supporters and human rights activists to demand an impartial probe into his death.

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  Paris Attack Reminds Arab Cartoonists of Dangers at Home

  Freedom of expression was meant to flourish after the Arab Spring revolts brought down autocrats across much of the Middle East and North Africa. Nearly four years later, many people are still watching their step.

• Yemen's Crisis Reflects Arc of Arab Spring Revolts

  Yemen's 2011 Arab Spring revolt began with a nucleus of young men and women, a mix of socialists, secularists and moderate Islamists.

• Tunisia President Declares Re-Election Bid

  Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki announced on Saturday he will stand for re-election in November, in a key vote almost four years after a revolt that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.

• Fugitive Vice President Says Iraq Violence Part of a Sunni Arab Revolt

  The violence in Iraq is part of a broader Sunni Arab revolt that could lead to a holy war in the country, and is not just a rampage by Islamist militants from an al Qaeda splinter group, fugitive vice president Tarek al-Hashemi told Reuters on Monday.

• Wavering Egyptians vote for president

  Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in history, voted for a second day on Thursday in an election that is a fruit of last year's popular revolt against Hosni Mubarak. After six decades under authoritarian, military-backed rule, Egypt's 50 million voters can decide whether to entrust the most populous Arab nation to an Islamis...

• Al Qaeda leader calls for Arab Spring-style revolt in Pakistan

  Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Mr Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence G...

• Syria: UN General Assembly wants Assad out

  The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday for a resolution backing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and strongly condemning human rights violations by his regime.

• Internet is double-edged sword in Arab revolts: Amnesty

  Dictators in the Arab world could crush uprisings against their iron-fisted rule using the same social media that have been credited with boosting the revolts, Amnesty warned in a new report.In its annual analysis of the world's human rights, Amnesty International praised the role of websites such as Twitter and Facebook in fomenting the biggest re...