Afaq.tv cameraman, Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in southern Iraq on Tuesday. At least 27 people were killed in the double car bomb attack outside a government compound in Diwaniya, a city 275 km south of Baghdad....
Activists have attacked the Army Radio with a bizarre phone message scam, reports Daniella Peled
Eight Bahraini activists and opposition leaders have been jailed for life and over a thousand activists remain in detention, reports human rights campaigner Maryam Alkhawaja whose father and uncle are among those convicted
Eight Shia activists and opposition leaders have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain. They have been found guilty of plotting a coup in the Sunni-ruled kingdom during protests in March this year. Protests in response to the setences are...
On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in Amman was attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed furniture and telephones and threw files to the ground. Two days before the attack, editor in chief...
I've been reflecting over the last ten days on FIFA's ban on the participation of Iran's women's football team in the Olympic games qualifiers, for failing to observe international football dress codes --- Iran's Islamic strip included a...
Bahrain's Information Affairs Authority today announced it has commissioned a UK-based legal firm to file a defamation case against the Independent newspaper. Nawaf Mohammed Al-Maawda, publications director-general said: "The Independent has...
Twenty-year-old student, Ayat al-Gormezi, who recited poems critical of Bahrain’s rulers at a Shia-led protest in Pearl Square has been sentenced to a year in prison. In the lead up to her trial she claimed that she was beaten in prison and she has...
Rachid Nini, the editor of one of Morocco’s leading newspapers, has been sentenced to a year in prison and fined 100 euros after he was convicted of compromising “the security and integrity of the nation and citizens”. Nini had been held for over...
Sakhi Rigi was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for critiquing the 2009 Iranian presidential elections on his blog. He was arrested in 18 June 2009 and has received the longest sentence given to an Iranian blogger. Yesterday (8...