Greater Middle East
Syria: jihadis target Armenians
Some 2,000 Armenians from the town of Kessab in northern Syria have taken refuge in the port city of Latakia following the occupation of their town by jihadist forces.
Tag: Arab Revolution
Greater Middle East
Turkish ‘false flag’ plot on Ottoman site in Syria?
Does the leaked YouTube video reveal that Turkey's intelligence establishment was planning a "false flag" attack on the revered grave of an medieval sultan in Syria?
Greater Middle East
Egypt prepares mass executions; US prepares aid
As an Egyptian court sentences 529 to death in an attack on police, US Congress mulls lifting restrictions that hold up a $1.5 billion aid package to the regime.
Greater Middle East
Lebanon, Golan Heights at stake in Syria conflict
A suicide blast hit Lebanon's Bekaa Valley after Hezbollah fighters took a Syrian border town. Meanwhile, a Syrian opposition figure broaches selling the Golan for Israeli military aid.
North Africa
Libya: North Korea oil export to spark civil war?
Pressure is mounting on Tripoli to act against "federalist" rebels in Cyrenaica after they allowed a North Korean-flagged tanker to ship from a port under their control.
North Africa
Libya: parliament, oil-field targeted by protesters
Libya's parliament moved to a Tripoli hotel after armed demonstrators stormed the building, while a key oil-field remains under occupation by Tuareg protesters.
Greater Middle East
Syria: ISIS destroy Sufi shrine, impose jizya tax
Qaeda-aligned insurgent group ISIS destroyed a Sufi Muslim shrine in Syrian Kurdistan and announced a "jizya" tax on non-Muslims in their zones of control.
Iran
Nobel Peace laureate slams Iran over Syria role
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi spoke out against her own government and Russia for their "intervention in Syria" on the side of Bashar Assad's regime.
North Africa
Moroccan villagers occupy silver mine
Berber villagers in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco are blocking operations of the Imiter Mettalurgic Mining Company—whose principal owner is King Mohammed VI.
Palestine
Syria: Yarmouk camp under regime bombardment
The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus came under bombardment by the Bashar Assad regime's TNT-filled "barrel-bombs," leaving several dead.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: new charter approved amid violence
A police station was bombed and 10 killed in clashes as Egyptian voters approved a new constitution that emphasizes secularism but gives greater power to the military.
Iraq
Qaedists lose ground in Syria; gain in Iraq
Syrian rebels launched an offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—just as the Qaeda-inspired army has seized the Iraqi towns of Fallujah and Ramadi.