Greater Middle East
Egypt sentences 683 Ikhwan supporters to death
An Egyptian judge sentenced 683 alleged supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood to death, including the group's supreme guide, Mohamed Badie.
Tag: Arab Revolution
North Africa
Qaddafi appears for trial via video conference
Saif al-Islam Qaddafi appeared for his trial via video conferencing, as he continues to be held in Zintan by a militia—in violation of international legal norms.
North Africa
Algeria: Berbers join call for election boycott
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.
Greater Middle East
Syria: new chemical claims under investigation
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.
Greater Middle East
Egypt: court upholds sentences of activists
An Egyptian appeals court upheld the jailing of three men who co-founded the "April 6" opposition movement that played a large role in the country's 2011 revolution.
Greater Middle East
Russia boosts military aid to Assad
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.
Greater Middle East
Rights group: more than 150,000 dead in Syria war
The death toll in the three-year Syrian conflict has exceeded 150,000, according to a new count by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Palestine
Ceasefire at Syria’s Yarmouk camp: PFLP-GC
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.
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.
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 court releases blogger on bail
Blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, imprisoned for violating Egypt's controversial protest law, was ordered released by a Cairo court—but still faces charges.
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.