Rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali joined a hunger strike by dozens of Egyptians to demand the release of activists detained under the new anti-protest law.
Opposition activists say they have confirmed 27 cases of chemical gas use in Syria since the UN passed UNSCR 2118, calling for destruction of all chemical weapons in the country.
Four were killed in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and Egyptian police on the anniversary of the Rabaa Square massacre, in which 1,000 lost their lives.
Residents of Aleppo, under siege and bombardment by Syrian regime forces, held a candle-light ceremony for the residents of Gaza under Israeli bombardment and invasion.
As rival militias battle for control of Tripoli's airport, a suspect in the 2012 attack in Benghazi is found dead in Libya's eastern town of Marj, also under control of a local militia.
Afraid of war spilling across the border from neighboring Syria, Lebanon's government has halted cannabis eradication in the Bekaa Valley, allowing a dope-for-guns pipeline to flourish.
"Anti-war" voices in the West have called for International Criminal Court action in Syria as a substitute for military intervention. Will they protest now that Moscow has blocked it?
Contrary to regime propaganda, the fall of Homs to government forces comes amid rebel gains elsewhere in Syria. With the jihadists in disarray, the FSA prepares to open a new front.
The Berber "provisional government" in the eastern mountains of Kabylie has joined calls by Algeria's opposition for a boycott of this week's presidential election.
The United States and Turkey have said they are following up on renewed accusations that the Syrian regime continues to use chemical weapons against civilians.
Russia is boosting military aid to the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, just as the US has finally broken off diplomatic relations with Damascus—signalling a deepening proxy war.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) announced that a ceasefire was reached in Syria's besieged Yarmouk refugee camp.
