One of the miscalculations—and I dare say they’re pretty few—made by Egypt’s January 25 Revolution, was the assumption that by toppling the regime, the entire Egyptian people have made it to Everest, planted their flag, and stayed basking in the eternal glory of their newly-acquired freedom. Except that now they are finding out that they are still at the foot of the mountain looking up in awe at the miles they need to climb.
The Obama administration’s hopes that sanctions to be imposed on Syria as well as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family will spark dissent within Syria’s political leadership as well as the armed forces whose senior ranks are part of the country’s economic elite.
Economic experts have warned of increasing capital flight from the Arab region, as a result of mounting fears from the wave of mass uprisings in the Arab world.
Human rights activists estimate that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s force have killed more than 400 protesters as tanks roar through city streets while U.S. President Barack Obama remains relatively silent.
Iran has 'found' the parties responsible for the unrest in Syria: they are none other that the "great and little satans," the United States and Israel.
Syrian President Bashar Assad is the world’s “most dangerous man,†according to Pulitzer Prize winner journalist Joel Brinkley, who added that the Obama government has “delusional views†of the dictator.
Islam is the religion of peace and love!
Emad Mikhail, the Christian governor of Qena, has been dismissed from his post on Monday by the Egyptian interior minister Mansour Eisawy, according to Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Egypt.
Some 500 Taliban prisoners escaped from an Afghan prison overnight through a massive underground tunnel that inmates had secretly created, officials said Monday.
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Monday, demanding political and social reforms.