Turkey has formally arrested Oguz Guven, the editor of the online edition of opposition newspaper "Cumhuriyet," for allegedly spreading "terrorist propaganda." According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, Guven's arrest was part of an investigation into a campaign to discredit those fighting against US based cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement...

The protests igniting across the Occupied Palestinian Territories to support 1,500 hunger strikers are not merely an act of 'solidarity' with the incarcerated and abused men and women who are demanding improvements to their conditions. They are, in essence, protests against the very reality of Palestinian life -an Israeli created status quo....

The Sulaliyyates, as the women are known, began their protests 10 years ago and have since assembled a powerful grass-roots organization fighting not only for the tribal lands but for equal ownership rights in a country where women, by law, inherit less than men. The nationwide movement began in 2007 when a woman in the city of Kenitra, close...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said on Monday that heavy-handed security measures by Egypt were fostering the very radicalization it was looking to curb. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency after Islamic State suicide bombers killed 45 people attending Christian churches. "...a...

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said on Monday that heavy-handed security measures by Egypt were fostering the very radicalization it was looking to curb. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency after Islamic State suicide bombers killed 45 people attending Christian churches. "...a...

Moroccan police forcibly broke up a pro-independence demonstration in El-Aaiun on April 15, beating dozens of activists. Saharawi demonstrators from all walks of life took to the streets to protest occupation and demonstrate solidarity with political prisoners languishing in Moroccan jails. Protest is a permanent feature of Saharawi life,...

Nonviolent, Syrian-led organizations that are struggling to keep people alive at the same time that they build a counter-force to violence, tyranny and extremism deserve robust outside support. These groups are creating women’s-led “peace circles” inside Syria, reporting on atrocities committed by various armed factions, providing education and...

Declaring victory in the recent plebiscite granting him extraordinary powers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidated his authoritarian rule. A new constitutional amendment abolishes the country’s parliamentary system and gives the once-weak executive almost unlimited authority. President Trump was virtually alone among world...

Dozens of members of Turkey’s political opposition were arrested in dawn raids on Wednesday (March 19), as a crackdown began on those questioning the legitimacy of a referendum to expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrests will add to fears that Sunday’s referendum has accelerated Turkey’s descent toward authoritarianism....

The Palestinian Authority has criticized Israel's refusal to talk to more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees who are on hunger strike against conditions in Israeli jails. The strike is being led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life after being accused of five murders. Issa Qaraqe, head of detainees' affairs for the...