[caption id="attachment_55234371" align="alignnone" width="620"] (MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Exactly a year after the breakout of the Syrian uprising, Al-Arabiya TV did something extraordinary: it broadcast blow-by-blow details of Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad’s emails that were le...
[caption id="attachment_55236177" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian General Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud (C) addresses judges in his office at the high court in Cairo on 13 October 2012. An influential group of Egyptian judges backed state prosecutor Mahmud's refusal to resign after Presiden...
[caption id="attachment_55236879" align="aligncenter" width="620"] KAMPALA, UGANDA: President of Uganda Idi Amin Dada (2nd-L) poses with some of the Organization of African Unity (OUA, from left) Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi in...
[caption id="attachment_55237129" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Kurdish man wearing a t-shirt bearing the portrait of Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) jailed leader Abdullah Öçalan guards a checkpoint on the road to the city of Afrin, on the Syria-Turkey border, on 23 August 2012. Source: ARIS MESS...
[caption id="attachment_55237670" align="alignnone" width="620"] Jordanians vote in the parliamentary elections on 23 January 2013 in the city of Zarqa, Jordan as a portrait of King Abdullah II looks on. Source: Jordan Pix/Getty Images[/caption]
The recent elections in Jordan, held amidst a boycott ...
[caption id="attachment_55239227" align="alignnone" width="620"] The town of Hama in Syria. Hama was the scene of the 1982 massacre of up to 30,000 citizens by the armed forces in the face of an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood. Credit: Matthew Lloyd.[/caption]
[inset_left]Ashes of Hama: the Peril...
[caption id="attachment_55239328" align="alignnone" width="620"] People hold candles during a candlelit vigil in central London on March 14, 2013 as part of global action on the second anniversary of the start of the Syria conflict. CARL COURT/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]
In the pre-Arab Spring era, ...
[caption id="attachment_55240969" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in the Iraqi city of Samarra on March 1, 2013 demanding the ousting of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. MAHMOUD AL-SAMARRAI/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]
Exactly a decade after the US in...
[caption id="attachment_55242224" align="alignnone" width="620"] Acting president of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) George Sabra (2nd-R) attends a press conference at the end of the SNC meeting on May 30, 2013 in Istanbul. OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images[/caption]The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) ...
[caption id="attachment_55242831" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Egyptian protester holds a portrait of former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser during a march towards Egypt's landmark Tahrir Square during a demonstration against President Mohamed Mursi on May 17, 2013 in Cairo. (GIANLUIGI ...
