Feb 07 Watch News Wrap: Leon Panetta Testifies on U.S. Military’s Response to Benghazi Attack In other news Thursday, outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta defended the military's response to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beghanzi. Also, a Bangladeshi man pled guilty to plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch Major Political Tumult in Tunisia, ‘Poster Child’ for Arab Spring Major Political Tumult in Tunisia, 'Poster Child' for Arab Spring… Continue watching
Feb 06 Watch Killing of Tunisian Opposition Figure Sparks Protests, Government Dissolution In late 2010, Tunisia became the birthplace of the Arab spring, and in January 2011, was the first in the region to oust its longtime dictator. Now opposition leader Chokri Belaid has been assassinated, sparking protests and the dissolution of… Continue watching
Feb 24 Watch What Can ‘Friends of Syria’ Do to Help Halt Killings? As officials from more than 60 nations on Friday called on Syria's government to stop killings, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed that if the regime refused the delivery of humanitarian supplies, "it will have even more blood on its… Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch Post-Revolution Tunisia Attempts Painful Transition to Democracy Post-Revolution Tunisia Attempts Painful Transition to Democracy… Continue watching
Jan 13 A Free Press? A Year After Tunisia’s Revolution, Youth Weigh In By Extra DA After 23 years of restrictions under President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, 10 Tunisian youth share their thoughts with student reporter and photographer Ahmed Medien of Speak Out Tunisia, a citizen journalism training project. Continue reading
Dec 30 In Photos: World Events of 2011 By Larisa Epatko It's a year that will be remembered as one that ended authoritative regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. In 2011, the most-wanted fugitive in the world was killed in Pakistan and severe weather battered the global population. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch Syria’s Assad Denies Ordering Deadly Crackdown as Sanctions Drive Down Currency Syria's President Bashar al-Assad denied in a Wednesday interview that he ordered a deadly crackdown on protesters. Jeffrey Brown speaks with NPR's Deborah Amos, reporting from Beirut, about how the interview will be viewed inside Syria, the state of the… Continue watching
Oct 28 Islamist Party Wins Tunisian Elections By News Desk Supporters of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party celebrate in Tunis after results came out Tuesday showing the party had taken the lead. Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images. This post was updated at 10:55 a.m. ET Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda won… Continue reading
Oct 24 Watch What Political Models Might Shape the New Libya, Tunisia? Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al Arabiya News, Michele Dunne, director of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East at the Atlantic Council, and Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace speak with Gwen Ifill… Continue watching