Torah Scrolls Torched By Arsonists In Corfu on Passover
Arsonists broke into Corfu's only synagogue and burned the community's prayer books and torah scrolls Tuesday morning.
Syria Repeals 1962 Emergency Law
Syria's government on Tuesday decided to lift the 'Emergency Law' that has been in place for 48 years, Gulf News reports.
Iran, Egypt renewing ties?
Iran said Tuesday that it had appointed an ambassador to Egypt for the first time in 30 years, and that diplomatic relations between the two countries—among biggest and most influential countries of the Middle East—had been re-established.
Syrians fire at protesters
Syrian forces fired at hundreds of protesters who had gathered overnight in the city Homs in defiance of warning by the authorities to halt what they called an insurrection, a human-rights campaigner said early Tuesday.
GCC counters Iran ‘threat’
Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed al-Khalifa of Bahrain said on Monday that Saudi and Emirati forces called in to help quell street unrest would leave only when “any external threat†related to Iran had vanished.
Iran says US instigating Arabs
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran on Monday accused the United States of wanting to create tension between Iran and Arabs. His comments came after the Gulf Cooperation Council called upon the United Nations to take action against Tehran to prevent its “interference†in the domestic affairs of the six Gulf Arab states.
Are President Assad’s reforms too little too late?
If the speech on April 16 by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria promising more transparency and consultation in government proves anything, it is that reform is likely to occur primarily if anti-government protesters have the stamina and wherewithal to keep up the pressure until reforms are enacted.
The Internet is making a difference in Arab societies
Asma Mahfouz is the woman who started it all. You might even say that it is she who was actually responsible for the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime in Egypt
Iranian support for protests could backfire in Syria and the Gulf
An opportunistic proponent of the mass anti-government protests sweeping the Middle East and North Africa, Iran is discovering that they constitute a mixed blessing.
Four protesters killed in Syria
At least four people were killed and up to 50 others wounded when Syrian security forces opened fire on a funeral procession in Talbisseh near the central town of Homs late on Sunday, witnesses said.