Judge Hisham Genina and two journalists who interviewed him face slander charges for claims of corruption against other Egyptian jurists, the latest move against press freedom.
The Israel Air Force was reportedly responsible for an attack on a military base in the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting a Russian missile shipment bound for Hezbollah.
A team of disarmament experts from the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons began overseeing the destruction by the Syrian government.
While the new deadly street clashes in Cairo made international news, near-daily insurgent attacks on Eyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula continue with little notice.
Human Rights Watch finds that tens of thousands who peacefully demonstrated against President Bashar Assad are languishing in Syrian prisons, subjected to an policy of torture.
Elements of Washington wonkdom are calling for the break-up of Syria into ethno-sectarian mini-states, and see the separatist contagion spreading to the rest of the Middle East.
Greek "National Socialist" organzation Black Lily boasts that it has dispatched a brigade to Syria to fight for Bashar Assad against "the American-Zionist war machine."
Obama's UN speech pledged: "We will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East. Yet intervention risks a conflagration that could threaten imperial control of the oil reserves.
As the Free Syrian Army now battles jihadist rebels as well as the regime, the two biggest jihadist factions are fighting each other for control over oilfields in Syria’s north.
The UN announced that inspectors have returned to Syria to investigate seven chemical weapon attacks, including three that occurred after the Aug. 21 incident in Damascus.
An Egyptian court banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated as part of the military government’s crackdown on the group.
International "human shields" in Damascus are occupying Mount Qasioun—site of the Republican Guard base from which the rockets in the Ghouta attacks were launched.
