The trouble with the authoritarian course President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has chosen is that once you start trying to suppress opposition, you cannot stop. Since a failed coup a year ago, Mr. Erdogan has used emergency powers to purge and arrest tens of thousands of leftists, liberals, Kurds and others. Now thousands of protesters,...

Bahrain has rearrested a prominent human rights advocate who has accused the country’s security services of torturing and sexually assaulting her during her previous arrest in May. Ebtisam al-Saegh, who works for Salam for Human Rights and Democracy, was detained during a night-time raid on Monday by about 25 security officers after she tweeted...

In the town of Al Hoceima, Morocco, the Eid holiday at the end of Ramadan was a time of clashes rather than celebration. The police and authorities blockaded roads leading to the town and prevented protesters from gathering in its main square. Crowds managed to assemble anyway, on side streets, before being violently dispersed by riot police....

Protesters blockading oil and gas fields in southern Tunisia have reached an agreement with the government to end a sit-in and allow production to restart immediately, the government and protesters said on Friday. Protests over jobs in southern Tataouine and Kebili provinces hit oil and gas production in a region where French company Perenco...

In August and September of 2016, Ioana Moldovan traveled to Tunisia to better understand the push and pull factors driving a number of youth in the country to turn to radicalization. While there, she spoke with people from local nongovernmental organizations, state officials, longtime unemployed persons, people who almost got radicalized,...

Morocco is witnessing a wave of anti-government demonstrations after thousands have taken to the streets of the capital Rabat and other major cities over the weekend. Local authorities estimated the number of protesters ranged between 12,000 and 15,000, a figure activists derided, claiming the number was closer to a million. The protest was a...

At least five people have died in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials say, after police opened fire on protesters demanding the government step down in the wake of a devastating bomb attack. Crowds rallied near the site of Wednesday's blast, chanting anti-government and anti-Taliban slogans. Police in riot gear also used tear gas and water...

Egyptian prosecutors on Wednesday released on bail an opposition leader widely expected to run against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in next year's elections, but they referred him to trial over the highly unusual charge of offending public morals for allegedly making an obscene finger gesture. Amnesty International called on Egyptian...

Palestinian activists set up an effigy representing Palestinian prisoners in front of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem on Tuesday, as US President Donald Trump arrived to the occupied West Bank city for a brief meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Trump’s arrival coincided with a mass hunger strike sustained by more than 1,300...

The U.S. airstrikes in response to the chemical weapons attack in Idlib province last month triggered calls for greater outside military force against the Assad regime by some of the Syrian opposition. Yet, in a country exhausted by armed struggle and the presence of extremist groups, local civil initiatives have proven to be more effective at...