Aid workers protest that while media reports on Syria focus on the political stalemate, a humanitarian crisis grows, with over a million displaced and 3 million facing hunger.
The Melkite Catholic archbishop of Aleppo flees Syria after his offices are sacked by jihadistsāas the US State Department establishes an Istanbul office to aid the Syrian rebels.
Security forces in Bahrain used tear gas and rubber bullets after protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station, in what official media called a “terror attack.”
Egypt President Mohammed Morsi issued a new law that bans pre-trial detentions of journalists for speaking out against the government, overturning the Mubarak-era practice.
Presumed militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) blew up a pipeline pumping liquefied gas to Yemen’s southern Balhaf export terminal, halting operations.
The British anarcho-syndicalist website Solidarity Federation runs a statement from a representative of a “group of young Syrian anarchists and anti-authoritarians from Aleppo.”
Syrian forces and their supporting Shabbiha fighters have committed “war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and humanitarian law,” a UN report finds.
A court in Egypt sentenced 14 Islamists members of the jihadist organization al-Tawhid wal-Jihad to death for their roles in a series of attacks in northern Sinai.
Multiple US drone strikes have hit targets in Yemen and Afghanistan during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, killing severalāall said to be al-Qaeda-linked militants.
As urban warfare rages in Damascus and Aleppo, rebel gunmen abducted 47 Iranian pilgrims outside the capitalāand a mob attack on Alawites was reported in Turkey.
A suicide attack killed 35 at the funeral of a Yemeni tribal leader who fought al-Qaeda militantsāas a US drone strike in Hadramout province killed five.
The Egyptian government announced that it has requested the release of the last of its citizens currently being held at the GuantƔnamo Bay detention facility.
