According to a report in the Washington Post, US defense officials have claimed that there is no plan to suspend or restrict the CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan, and that the agency has not been asked to pull any of its employees out of Pakistan. 　　US and Pakistan’s relationship was... More

　　Benghazi internal security headquarters, November 3, 1990. A fax arrives at 10:30 in the morning, addressed to the director from the head office in Tripoli. 　　"We received information about some of the suspicious people," it begins. A list of names and paragraphs of information follow. 　　One man is singled out... More

　　The only outside visitors the people of Daraa are allowed to receive these days are friends and family attending funerals. 　　To access the city where Syria's uprising began, a local reporter simply had to tell the guards at the first checkpoint the truth: The husband of his wife's cousin had... More

　　As darkness fell across it, Deraa was a city under siege. 　　Tanks and troops control all roads in and out. Inside the city, shops are shuttered and nobody dare walk the once bustling market streets, today transformed into the kill zone of rooftop snipers. 　　Trapped and terrified inside their homes,... More

　　The UN has said that almost 40,000 people have fled fighting in Libya's Western Mountains region in the past month. 　　Thousands of ethnic Berbers from Libya fled into Tunisia after a brief hiatus in their exodus last week because of fighting between Gaddafi troops and opposition forces for control of... More

　　President Assad reaffirms his father's legacy by quelling dissent with brute force. 　　As the fists and boots and sticks pummeled his body and bloodied his face, the college student screamed out what he thought his interrogators wanted to hear: The name of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad. 　　It worked. The secret... More

　　Fawaz al-Haraki had only minutes to live. 　　As the shots rang out, Abu Haidar and the other protesters ran for cover, grimly familiar with what to do when the mukhabberat (secret police) attacked. 　　But Fawaz fell, the blood soaking his trousers where the bullet from a Syrian secret policeman had... More

　　The nature and scale of human rights abuses by Syrian security forces in the crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past two months could qualify as crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. 　　In a statement released on Wednesday, the New York-based rights body said interviews with victims... More

　　The May 15 Nakba protests took a toll on one family in particular, losing a son who made the ultimate sacrifice. 　　Seventeen-year-old Mohammed al-Saleh grew up in Burj al-Shemali refugee camp in south Lebanon, caring little about politics and more about sport. However, when it came to Palestine, Mohamed's 16-year-old... More

　　Forces loyal to the embattled Yemeni president killed 20 protesters as they dispersed a sit-in in Taez, an organizer said on Monday. 　　Security service agents backed by army and Republican Guard troops stormed the protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Freedom Square in the centre of Yemen's second-largest city... More

　　On May 31, 2011, UNICEF Communication Specialist Rebecca Fordham boarded the relief boat carrying two boys injured from explosive remnants of the war in Libya. She also participated in workshops to raise awareness and protect children from these horrific weapons of war in the conflict-affected eastern Libya. This is her... More

　　Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has issued a new report detailing the government’s dramatic escalation in the number of Palestinian home demolitions in the Jordan Valley, part of the eastern West Bank. 　　According to the report, the Israeli government has demolished 103 homes there so far this year, after 86... More

　　Defectors of Syria’s security forces have described receiving orders from their superiors to fire live rounds at protesters to disperse them, according to Human Rights Watch. 　　The New York-based rights body released a statement on Saturday detailing interviews with eight soldiers and four members of secret security agencies it said... More