Day of Rage

NYPD Shuts Down Wall Street

Natalie Pace | Posted 11.18.2011

Natalie Pace

Protesters had hoped to take command of Wall Street on September 17, but the New York Police Department quickly showed them who was in charge, by barricading all entrances to the heart of America's financial institutions.

Latest Developments In The Arab World

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.28.2011

Disenfranchised citizens across the Arab world are continuing to take to the streets as part of protests inspired by demonstrations that successfully ...

Mubarak Under House Arrest

Posted 05.28.2011

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been placed under house arrest, the military council to which he handed power on Feb. 11 said, quashing ru...

Syria Clashes Kill At Least 15

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 05.25.2011

DARAA, Syria — Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting a...

Syria's Revolt: How Graffiti Stirred An Uprising

Time | RANIA ABOUZEID | Posted 05.25.2011

The words have been repeated from Tunisia to Egypt, from Yemen to Bahrain. "The people want the regime to fall" - the mantra of revolution. And so, la...

Aisha Gaddafi: North Africa's Claudia Schiffer?

Telegraph | Cassandra Jardine | Posted 05.25.2011

You would think that Aisha Gaddafi had nothing else to think about these days apart from shaping her eyebrows. While her elder brother Saif looks dish...

Yemeni President To Step Down By Year's End

AP | By AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.25.2011

SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's embattled U.S.-backed president said Tuesday that a military coup would lead to civil war and pledged to step down by year's e...

Gaddafi Forces Attack Rebel-Held Misrata: Residents

Posted 05.25.2011

ALGIERS/TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces used tanks and artillery on Wednesday to try to retake the city of Misrata, the l...

Gaddafi Brutally Attacks Rebels In Eastern Libya

Posted 05.25.2011

AJDABIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacked two rebel-held towns on Tuesday as the battle for eastern Libya edged closer to the...

Women's Role In Middle East Protests

Posted 05.25.2011

In honor of International Women's Day, leaders and rights activists have been prasing the role of women in the protests that toppled dictators in Tuni...

What's Going On In The Middle East Protests

Posted 05.25.2011

Massive protests are continuing to sweep through the Middle East and North Africa, sparked by civil uprisings in both Tunisia and Egypt that led to th...

Starting a Saudi Revolution Without Revolutionaries

Sabria Jawhar | Posted 05.25.2011

Sabria Jawhar

Sometimes people are so hopeful about the prospect of more bloodshed spilled in the Middle East that they resort to stretching the truth to further their agenda.

Hundreds Of Thousands Protest Across Arab World

AP | BEN HUBBARD and KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO — Hundreds of thousands poured out of mosques and staged protests across the Arab world Friday, some trying to shake off autocratic rulers...

The World's 15 Longest-Serving Leaders

businessinsider.com | Wadzanai Mhute | Posted 05.25.2011

The probability of Muammar al-Qaddafi losing power in the rebellion is 75% on inTrade. Although the country is in a state of war, the 68-year-old lea...

Inside the Muslim Brotherhood

GlobalPost | Charles M. Sennott | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO, Egypt -- The historic events in Cairo's Tahrir Square were sparked by largely secular Egyptian youth who came together through social networkin...

Everything You Need To Know About Bahrain

Posted 05.25.2011

Witnesses say Bahrain security forces have opened fire on anti-government protesters as the violence in Manama continues as part of a bold attempt to ...

Senegal Man Sets Himself Near Presidential Palace

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011

DAKAR, Senegal — A man who set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Senegal on Friday died from his wounds hours later in the ...

Egypt 'Domino' Effect: Protests In Middle East, North Africa

Posted 05.25.2011

Inspired by popular revolts that ousted much-maligned rulers in Tunisia and Egypt, a series of anti-government protests are continuing to gain pace ac...

The Two Faces Of The Muslim Brotherhood

wsj.com | By CHARLES LEVINSON | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO--Moaz Abdel Karim, an affable 29-year-old who was among a handful of young activists who plotted the recent protests here, is the newest face of...

Is Mubarak's Health Failing?

Reuters | Andrew Hammond | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO (Reuters) - The health of former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak is deteriorating and he has refused to travel abroad for treatment, the Saudi-ow...

Anti-Government Protesters In Bahrain Met With Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets

AP | BRIAN MURPHY | Posted 05.25.2011

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heed...

Egypt Labor Unrest Grows After Anti-Mubarak Uprising

AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY and SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 05.25.2011

CAIRO — Thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and bank workers, protested on Monday demanding better pay, in a growing ...

WikiLeaks Reveals The Israeli Connection To New Egypt VP

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman was long seen by Israel as the preferred candidate to succeed President Hosni Mubarak, secret U.S....

Egypt's Biggest Businessman's Deep North Korea Connections

GlobalPost | Donald Kirk | Posted 05.25.2011

SEOUL, South Korea -- Egypt's biggest businessman holding hands with Kim Jong Il. This image, from an official photograph that also features the Dear...

After Mubarak, Who Will Lead Egypt?

Posted 05.25.2011

President Hosni Mubarak's Tuesday declaration that he would not run for re-election in September did not satisfy the anti-government protesters who wa...