In Syria, the Christians are angry. For eleven months, many of their leaders have stood firmly behind the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. However, Syria's new constitution explicitly says in Article 3 that the president of the country has to be a Muslim, thereby barring Christians from the right to run for the top post.
A constitutional referendum will be held in Syria on Sunday, one day after aid workers failed to negotiate a temporary cease-fire in the besieged city of Homs and at least 100 people were reported killed.
Very little in life is truly inevitable. When briefing policy makers, I would try to point out that a lot of it wasn't even predictable (at least in any scientific sense). But surely what is happening in Iraq, the increasingly darkening clouds of sectarian division, can hardly be described as unexpected.
At least 60 die in Iraq in suicide strikes that targeted Shiites and renewed fears of sectarian violence.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is asking lawmakers to withdraw confidence from his deputy after Saleh al-Mutlaq made controversial comments this week over American forces withdrawing from Iraq, state media reported late Saturday.
MME looks at how Gulf states are reacting to the unrest in Syria.
The harsh criticism leveled at the Syrian regime by Saudi Arabia and Turkey last week could prove a turning point in the popular uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued a decree authorising a multi-party political system, state media reported Thursday, a day after the U.N. Security Council condemned the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters.
Ali Faisal al-Lami, the executive director of Iraq's Accountability and Justice Commission, was shot dead by gunmen Thursday evening, said interior ministry officials.
Missing from mainstream coverage of Syria's uprising: love, hope and the gleam in the eyes of Syrian people awake as never before. Easily dismissed as quixotic by the jaded, this incredible florescence will see the revolution through.
To say that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in trouble is an understatement. His security forces, roaming paramilitary thugs and now his army --which on Monday entered the southern town of Daraa -- have turned their guns and tanks on to the Syrian people. This is the response to an unprecedented uprising against the stale, corrupt and repressive Baathist security regime that Assad heads.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday that the country's state of emergency, in effect since 1963, should be lifted by next week at the latest -- but that the final decision is up to the newly sworn-in Cabinet.
Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has announced the formation of a new government, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported Thursday.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was never supposed to ascend to power, but his brother's death changed all that.
Yazan, 23, shuffles into a cafe in the Old City of Damascus. "Sorry I'm late," he says, quickly ordering a Smirnoff and a toshka, a sandwich of meat and cheese. "But I was arguing with all my friends who've joined pro-Bashar [al-Assad] Facebook groups. They always tell me to be quiet. I'm the crazy old man in the corner that no one listens to."
The Kurdish people of Syria have not joined the current wave of unrest with any significant demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad and his ruling Baath party. But that could change.
Jordan's King Abdullah II swore in a new government Wednesday with a mandate for political reform, a former general at its head and several opposition and media figures among its ranks.
Iraq moved a couple of steps closer Saturday to forming a government after a maddening year marked by political squabbling and paralysis.
Iraq's power sharing agreement appears to have fallen apart as lawmakers walk out. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi offered Friday a grim prediction for the future of Iraq's government a day after leading his Iraqiya bloc's walkout from parliament in a dramatic display of unhappiness with a power-sharing agreement that had been forged earlier in the week.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned Friday of likely attacks across the country and put all local governments and security forces on high alert.
An audio message purportedly from the highest-ranking at-large member of Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime has been released.
Hours after insurgents killed dozens of people on Tuesday in a new wave of bomb attacks in Baghdad, former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said he hopes to soon form a new government after claiming victory in the March 7 ballot.
Days ahead of national elections, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has announced plans to rehire 20,000 former Iraqi army officers who served under former leader Saddam Hussein.
A Sunni extremist leader has denounced the upcoming Iraqi national elections and warned of insurgent acts against the Shiite-led government.
Shia TV stations use images of historical atrocities by the Baath party to fuel political paranoia. Arwa Damon reports.
Explosions at the offices of five political parties in Baghdad on Saturday wounded at least 10 people, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Iraq's simmering sectarian tension boiled in recent days over a controversial decision banning more than 500 people with alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from running in next month's Iraqi national elections.
At least 18 people have been killed and 80 injured in a car bomb blast in central Baghdad as deadly violence returned to the streets of the Iraqi capital for a second day.
The Iraqi government has aired videos showing three men, who claim to be members of the ousted Baath Party, saying they were involved in last month's devastating Baghdad attacks.
An umbrella group affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for a pair of weekend bombings that killed 160 people in Baghdad.
Turkey's top diplomat is shuttling between Baghdad and Damascus Monday, in an effort patch up differences between its two neighbors, Syria and Iraq.
Syria and Iraq each recalled their ambassadors from the other country Tuesday, after Baghdad demanded that Damascus hand over two suspects in last week's deadly bombings in the Iraqi capital.
Iraqi officials Sunday released what they called a confession from a man identified as a former Baathist police official, who says he helped organize one of last week's attacks on government buildings in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government said Friday it has arrested members of a cell believed responsible for Wednesday's truck bombings in which more than 100 people were killed.
The Iraqi government says it has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave amid concern over support for the late dictator's former party.
At least seven Iraqis were killed and 23 wounded when a bomb exploded near a Shiite holy shrine in northern Baghdad on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry official said.
A car bomb exploded Tuesday in northern Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding 18 others, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.
At least 33 people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing targeting a national reconciliation conference in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki rallied sheikhs of the nation's tribes on Saturday to participate in Iraq's government.
It's a bittersweet Christmas season for Joseph Kassab, who grew up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime and now lives in Detroit, Michigan. Tempering the season's joy is his concern for fellow Iraqi Christians, who have endured killings, displacement and daily intimidation.
Twenty-three Iraqi military and security officers accused of conspiring with former Saddam Hussein supporters to overthrow the government have been released from jail, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
Gunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said.
The U.S. forces who killed a top militant in Syria last week intended to capture him, but he and his bodyguards were killed in a gunbattle, a Saudi source with access to detailed intelligence told CNN.
An Iraqi panel that oversees the activities of former Baathists is denouncing the arrest of one of its senior members by the U.S. military, which says the man is an Iranian-backed Shiite militant involved in a bombing that killed four Americans.
The U.S. Army's official history of the Iraq war shows military chiefs made mistake after mistake in the early months of the conflict.
A bill that could pave the way for some members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life became law in Iraq on Sunday despite reservations from the country's leading Sunni Arab politician.
On a visit to Iraq, Condoleezza Rice sees steps toward national reconciliation in Baghdad. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other senior leaders Tuesday on an unannounced visit to Iraq, the White House said.
A new law pushes the door open a bit toward reconciliation but contentious issues remain, including the freedom of thousands of Sunni detainees
Americans battled to win back the streets of Dora and are now revivifying civilian life. But can the Iraqi government take over?
The Iraqi parliament passed legislation Saturday that would pave the way for some members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to return to public life, an Iraqi lawmaker told CNN.
At least 16 people were killed and 31 others wounded when a female suicide bomber detonated in Muqdadiya, north of Baghdad, an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry said.
Petraeus and Bush put a sunny face on progress in Iraq. But two new assessments provide a morning-after jolt of reality
The former Iraqi Prime Minister seeking a return to power receives a thumbs-up from Saddam's old party
A move to bring more Sunnis back into the government gave the U.S. something to brag about, but already is running into trouble
The U.S. military on Saturday said coalition forces south of Baghdad found a site where people were executed and bodies dumped, as 10 more corpses were found in the Iraqi capital.
It is another violent and bloody day in Baghdad.
Ambushes killed 10 people in the Iraqi capital Monday, including a family, as a powerful Shiite leader called for "iron fist" security to protect Shiites from "Saddamist Baathists."
Fortune: Him again?!updated: Mon Jul 26 2004 00:01:00
I saw Saddam Hussein on TV the other morning, and, boy, he looked good.
Money Magazine: Kurdish Renaissanceupdated: Fri Nov 01 2002 00:01:00
The musky, noisy bazaar in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil winds its way in a labyrinth around an ancient castle. This commercial center dates back to the beginnings of Western civilization. From ...
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