Political Dissent

Syrian authorities were sending reinforcements to strife-torn Aleppo, opposition activists said, as outgunned rebels in the northern city tried to deliver a potentially decisive blow to the government of President Bashar Assad....

For years, conflict has simmered and spiked between residents of a town outside Mexico City and the Central American migrants who have taken refuge there, a stop along their route northward. Tultitlan has seen thousands of often bedraggled migrants...

MEXICO CITY -- Cuban authorities have filed criminal charges against a Spanish politician who was the driver in a crash that killed prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya, the official daily Granma reported Monday (link in Spanish). In an editorial that...

The secretary-general of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, visited Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday in an effort to end the bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters that has gripped Syria for months and led to international condemnation....

Protests against the Sudanese government have raged for almost a week, triggered by government decisions to end fuel subsidies and impose other spending cuts....

An Ethiopian court convicted prominent journalist Eskinder Nega, along with a group of others including political dissidents and activists, on terrorism charges Wednesday, alarming human rights groups. "This is a dark day for justice in Ethiopia, where...

WASHINGTON — After taking heat for racially charged remarks, Rep. Joe Walsh issued a statement Friday asserting he was “in no way critical of minorities,” …...

Anti-government slogans and calls for change resounded in Moscow’s central boulevards Tuesday, suggesting Russian authorities’ recent moves to suppress dissent haven’t dampened the opposition’s spirits. It was the first major...

With no end in sight to the violence in Syria, frustration appears to be growing among both residents and among the almost 300 United Nations observers on the ground. In a video posted on the CNN website, U.N. Commandant Mark Hearns, during a meeting with...

A government assault on rebel areas in the central Syrian city of Hama has killed as many as 42 people, most of them civilians, an opposition activist claimed....

BEIRUT and AMMAN, Jordan -- At least 90 people were killed Friday during shelling of the Houla area in Syria's Homs province, a human rights group reported. But an activist on the ground in Houla put the death toll in the alleged massacre at 106, of which...

At least 50 people were reportedly killed Friday in attacks in the Syrian town of Houla northwest of Homs, according to opposition activist groups. Dissidents said it was one of many attacks by government forces Friday as protests erupted across the...