Amnesty International accused Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinian refugees at the Yarmouk camp.
Saadi Qaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, was extradited from Niger back to Libya to stand trial for crimes allegedly committed during his father's rule.
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.
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.
Human Rights Watch charges that Libya has failed to grant due process rights to Saif al-Islam Qaddafi and other detained former government officials.
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.
Berber villagers in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco are blocking operations of the Imiter Mettalurgic Mining Company—whose principal owner is King Mohammed VI.
Human Rights Watch reports that Syrian authorities deliberately demolished residential neighborhoods with explosives and bulldozers in Damascus and Hama over the last year.
A Cairo court sentenced Islamist leader and former presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail to a year in prison for comments allegedly made at another trial.
Amnesty International and other rights groups are demanding that the Geneva conference must address claims of "industrial-scale" massacres and torture in Syria.
The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus came under bombardment by the Bashar Assad regime's TNT-filled "barrel-bombs," leaving several dead.
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.
