Political Dissent

Bahrain has banned all protests and rallies, arguing that a complete stop to such gatherings is needed to maintain security in the island nation. Interior Minister Sheik Rashid ibn Abdullah Khalifa ordered the move, a sweeping attempt to bring its...

For the first time since a reported massacre there, U.N. observers on Saturday entered the Syrian town of Tremseh, where opposition activists say more than 200 people were killed. The violence took place Thursday, on what may have been the single...

Reports of fresh fighting in areas of Damascus and its suburbs surfaced Monday in a sign that the security situation may be deteriorating in the Syrian capital....

Battles between security forces and rebels rocked Syria's capital for the third consecutive day Tuesday and appeared to be spreading to other districts of the city. Opposition activists were calling the fighting -- the fiercest clashes to date reported in...

Syrian officials killed in bombing: After three top Syrian officials were killed in a bomb blast in Damascus, dissidents celebrated across Syria, hoping the attack could be a turning point in the battles between rebels and the Syrian government....

After almost a week of intense battles in Damascus, fierce clashes between government security forces and armed rebels were reported Saturday in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub....

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...

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday. The secret order, referred to as an intelligence...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- There could be more protests at Art Walk in downtown Los Angeles Thursday night -- the first time the event is being held since a melee last month. Members of Occupy Los Angeles clashed with police last month for chalking...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Mohamed Morsi was sworn in Saturday as Egypt's first democratically-elected president, taking the helm of a deeply divided nation that is economically strapped and lacks a working government. The historic ceremony took place amid tight...