Yemeni civilians are going hungry after a sharp rise in the food prices, owing to the unrest and fights in the country. Disrupted food supplies and transport have pushed up the price of gas, water, fuel and other basic commodities, the U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.
Turkey, in an act of generosity has welcomed anxious Syrian refugees on Wednesday and urged Syrian government to stop violence against civilians after thousands of people abandoned a town near the Turkish frontier in fear of military assault.
President Obama met with the crown prince of Bahrain on Tuesday and urged to carry out political and economic reforms, and pressed him to investigate alleged abuses after a February crackdown on dissenters earned Bahrain international condemnation.
The Libyan woman who announced to international media that she was gang-raped by Gaddafi troupes has been relocated to Romanian UN headquarters.
A statement from Ben Ali's France-based lawyer says Ben Ali always worked in the best interest of the Tunisian people.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation in Saudi Arabia to remove shrapnel from his chest, while a truce between his troops and a tribal federation appeared to be holding, a Reuters report said.
Ousted Tunisian president has his day in court from afar.
Amnesty International accuses Qatar of violating international law.
Algerian authorities blame terrorist attacks of the past two months on chaos in neighboring Libya
Authorities announced hundreds of Libyan refugees dead in cross-Mediterranean escape.
United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton will attend an international meeting next week to talk about the situation in Libya, as NATO seeks to accelerate the campaign to end his rule.
In a sign of eroding support for besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, eight generals and about 100 soldiers defected from the Libyan army and fled to Italy
Atleast 11 civilians were killed and many wounded when Syrian forces led an attack in a widening military push into central Syria to cut down protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday, a Reuters report said.
The political crisis has pushed Yemen to the brink of civil war has also cost the economy $ 5 billion and the country requires immediate aid to prevent a meltdown, the country's trade minister said on Saturday.
Yemen's government and armed tribesmen are demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave power as agreed on Saturday.
More than 40 Yemenis were killed as violence erupted in Sana’a peaceful pro-democracy protests. Yemen was on the verge of a civil war as there was overnight combat between the government forces and tribal militia.
The G8 summit of industrialized nation’s leaders this week could transform the Middle East economies with financial efforts to win back investors' confidence.
Yemeni capital Sanaa was hit by big blasts on early Thursday as the fighting to bring down the current president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has turned out to be a civil war, Reuters reported.
Tunisian foreign minister Mouldi Kefi said he believed that Libyan oil minister Shokri Ghanem, was no longer working for the Gaddafi regime.
President Barack Obama will use a European tour this week to urge U.S. allies to help press forward the movement for democratic change presented by the Arab spring uprisings in the Middle East, reports said
Tunisian Foreign Minister Mouldi Kefi said that he believed Libyan Oil Minister Shokri Ghanem is no longer working for Gaddafi regime, Reuters reported on Monday.
President Barack Obama said on Sunday and Israel-Palestine peace deal could not wait another decade, saying that challenges facing Israel would only grow and delay would undermine Israel's security.
