The epicenter of the October 2019 anti-government protest movement, Tehrir square is now transformed and boasts a renovated park section.

Designed as a punishment for the government of Iran, the EU will likely adopt new sanctions against the Islamic republic next week over its deadly crackdown on protests in the country. The German foreign minister said that the bloc will not let up and that "it stands with the men...

The lawmakers also urged the judiciary to "deal decisively with the perpetrators of these crimes and deal with all those who incited the rioters, including certain politicians", they added. Earlier Sunday, state media and the Revolutionary Guards said four Iranian police officers and one "terrorist" had been killed in separate...

Signalling its tough approach toward protestors, Iran has put on trial five people charged with offenses that can carry capital punishment over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. The country has witnessed a wave of protests after the death of Amini. The street violence has led to dozens of deaths,...

Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi said that indictments have been issued for 315 people on charges of "congregating and colluding with the intention of acting against the country's security", "propaganda against the system" and "disturbing public order".

Demanding his resignation, tens of thousand of demonstrators in Tunis denounced a power grab by President Kais Saied, chanting "Down, down," "Revolution against dictator Kais" and "The coup will fall." In July last year, Kais staged a dramatic power grab and later pushed through a constitution enshrining his one-man rule.

Tunis, Tunisia— Tunisian mourners clashed with security forces on Friday after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during a police chase a month ago. Protestors threw rocks at security forces after Malek Sellimi's funeral in the working-class neighborhood of Upper Omran on the edges of Tunis, according to...

A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman died on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.

Taking exception to what it calls interference in its internal affairs, Iran has summoned British ambassador Simon Shercliff to hear a protest over 'meddlesome statements' on the unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Iran said that it rejects and strongly condemns "fake and provocative interpretations".

While Iran is struggling to contain rising wave of protests over the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, its forces are now involved in gun battles in the Southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. At least 19 people including a Revolutionary Guards colonel were killed on Friday.

Parliament said in a brief statement on Monday that votes on the resignation of the assembly's speaker, Mohammed al-Halbussi, and the appointment of a first deputy speaker would top the agenda.

Calling for an end to the mandatory Islamic dress code for women in force since 1983, the Union of Islamic Iran People's Party, the country's main reformist party, appealed to the authorities to wind down the activities of the morality police charged with enforcing the dress code.

Tensions spiked in northwest Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, sparking off protests in the region. She was on a visit with her family to Tehran when she was detained by the police unit entrusted with the job of enforcing the country's strict dress code for...

Brandishing banners and Iraqi flags, the non-partisan protesters streamed into west Baghdad's al-Nusoor square, demanding a complete political overhaul. Demonstrators shouted the Arab Spring slogan: "The people want the fall of the regime."

Noureddine Bedoui, the former prime minister of Algeria, has been detained on court orders, two days after another court had placed him under supervision and confiscated his passport. He is the third ex-premier to face jail on corruption charges. Bedoui briefly served as prime minister in early 2019.

Violence erupted in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region when security forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated bullets Saturday into crowds of anti-government protesters demanding better living conditions, an end to corruption and authoritarian practices by the local government.

Sri Lanka's embattled president flew out of his country to the Maldives early Wednesday, in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests against his island nation's worst-ever economic crisis.

Kuwait's Foreign Ministry has called on nationals who are currently in Sri Lanka to keep away from protest areas, heed instructions of local authorities and leave the country as soon as possible. In a press statement on Saturday, the ministry also advised nationals who are planning to travel to Sri...

Iranian authorities have arrested two film directors for "inciting unrest" following a deadly building collapse in the country's southwest in May, state media reported.

The decision was taken "to make room for political and revolutionary forces and other national factions" to form a civilian government

Libya's rival leaders were under growing street pressure Saturday after protesters stormed parliament as anger exploded over deteriorating living conditions and political deadlock.

A coalition of tribes in East Sudan announced on Tuesday the end of a sit-in which blocked roads to the crucial Red Sea port, after the governor announced his resignation.

Sunday's decision came after a meeting with senior military officials recommending the state of emergency be lifted and people detained under an emergency law be freed.

Hundreds of people took to the streets in southwestern Iran demanding justice after a tower block collapse killed 24 people, news outlets in the Islamic republic said on Friday.

Police and protesters clashed in Turkey and France during May Day rallies on Sunday, as tens of thousands marched across the world in support of workers' rights. Turkish riot police detained scores of demonstrators in Istanbul, pinning some of them to the ground and dragging them away from the rally,...

Soaring fuel prices in Morocco have placed billionaire petrol magnate Aziz Akhannouch -- who is also prime minister -- at the heart of a reignited debate about the conflict between business and politics. For the first time since the war in Ukraine led to a global jump in crude prices,...

A Ramadan TV series dealing with polygamy has sparked a heated debate in Tunisia, an Arab pioneer in women's rights that banned the practice decades ago.

More than a thousand Tunisians rallied Sunday decrying what they said was a power grab by President Kais Saied and his proposed constitutional reforms.

Tunisia has summoned Turkey's ambassador in protest against "interference" after President Erdogan criticized his counterpart in Tunis for dissolving the country's parliament. Tunisia's fragmented parliament has long been dominated by Ennahdha, an Islamist-inspired party close to Erdogan's ruling AKP.

"When are we going to talk about it?" read a sign at demonstration in France where thousands came out to urge politician to work on climate crisis issues.

Moroccan truck drivers are observing a three-day strike in protest at spiraling fuel costs, a union said Tuesday, as oil prices spike over Russia's war in Ukraine.

Thousands of Iranian teachers have protested in more than 100 cities against delays in salary and pension reforms, a local newspaper reported Sunday.

The soaring minarets of the 16th-century Suleymaniye mosque paint the postcard image of Istanbul, but that is now blighted by rickety wooden scaffolding at a nearby construction site, sparking fury on social media. The latest row over Istanbul's skyline has seen opponents of the new building attack botched restoration work...

US officials in the United Arab Emirates met with Afghans after a protest in Abu Dhabi this week and discussed their "potential" transfer to the United States, an embassy statement said.

Hundreds took to the streets of a southern Syrian city on Friday to demand better living conditions and democracy in a rare protest inside regime-held areas, a war monitor said.

Artist Khaled Dawwa, a Syrian exile and prison survivor who now works in France, is recreating vistas from back home.

Sudan has revoked the license of Al Jazeera Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of "unprofessional" TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said Sunday. "The Sudanese authorities announce they revoked the accreditation of Al Jazeera Mubasher and barred its team from working in Sudan," tweeted the news...

Over the week, crude prices gained about 5 percent and on Friday Brent exceeded $83 per barrel.

More than 70 families gathered in the rebel-held Syrian town of Azaz on Friday to highlight the plight of loved ones missing in the government's feared jail system.

About 200 industry workers demonstrated in front of the tourism ministry in Rabat, demanding the reopening of borders.

Many Tunisians are tired of a system that is seen as graft-ridden and ineffective, and have welcomed the protests.

Riot police were deployed in force Saturday in the Iranian city of Isfahan, a day after violent protests over the drying up of a lifeblood river.

Tebboune has vowed to reform state institutions inherited from Bouteflika, who died in September at the age of 84.

Sudanese anti-coup protesters plan to flood the streets Saturday to demonstrate against a military takeover that has derailed the country's transition to civilian rule and triggered a deadly crackdown.

The Conquest (Fatah) Alliance, the political arm of the multi-party Hashed, won around 15 of 329 seats.

Lebanon marked the second anniversary of its defunct protest movement with a low-key demonstration in Beirut Sunday, while many stayed away amid grinding economic woes and deadly tensions over a port blast probe.

A new electoral law in Iraq will mean that when Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday, they will vote for individuals rather than parties. This is the country’s fifth election since the US toppled the Saddam Hussien regime in 2003.

Protesters waving the Tunisian flag gathered Sunday outside the municipal theatre in Tunis

Demonstrators blocked the entrance to the airport and a bridge linking Kassala State in the east with the rest of the country.

The protest organized using the social media hashtag #ADayOffTwitch was intended to get Twitch to do more to protect streamers from attacks