Flash Points: Is Arab League lifeline for Assad in Syria? In the latest edition of "Flash Points," CBS News national security correspondent Bob Orr and analyst Juan Zarate discuss the Arab League's ...
Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, set himself on fire to protest against police harassment and the ...
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From the ashes of the Arab Spring
On January 14, 2011, Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to resign, after four weeks of revolt in the north African country. It was a first major scalp for the wave of upheaval known ...
Soldiers shed their uniforms and slip away into the crowds. Families, jubilant and tearful, comb the dungeons of the old regime in search of loved ones, or traces of them. Bedraggled young men in ...
The fall of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in December 2024 has ushered in a nerve-wracking time of hope and fear for Syrians concerning future governance in the long-war-torn country. While it’s unclear ...
The latest settlement promises order after chaos. But stability will be fragile unless governance is inclusive and part of a genuine transition ...
In 2011, as the Arab Spring took hold across the Middle East, the seeds of Syria's revolution were sown by students and young people in the city of Daraa. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports ...
Syrian government forces entered the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli on Tuesday as part of a deal agreed last week to ...
With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...
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