Yemen’s transition process is on the brink of collapse due to the failure to reform security institutions and disempower former regime elements, a leading activist warned today.

Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh should be excluded from politics, and youth, women …

The Obama administration should be more assertive steps to in?uence the outcome of Arab Spring transitions, engage more broadly than government-to-government relations with a diverse set of actors, and employ leverage and incentives to affect the behavior of key actors, …

A hardline Islamist group normally aligned with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood today joined the opposition in calling for a national unity government as part of a plan to end the violence that has left more than 60 dead the past dead …

King Abdullah II’s assertion that last week’s election signaled Jordan’s transition to democracy appear “hyperbolic” in face of the facts, says a leading analyst.

The National Democratic Institute, the Washington-based democracy assistance group, which observed the poll “was forceful …

The secular groups protesting on the second anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster share the blame for Egypt’s authoritarian drift under the Muslim Brotherhood, analysts assert.

The Islamist’s political dominance is a consequence of liberal and secular groups ceding the initiative …

At least 110 people were injured in violent clashes between protesters and police during rallies to mark the second anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime, AP reports:

The two sides clashed throughout the day Friday …

Newly emerging popular movements for reform were the driving force behind the Middle East’s major gains in democratic rights last year, according to Freedom in the World 2013, Freedom House’s annual report. But other regions experienced setbacks due to …

Pro-democracy and human rights advocates have denounced the detention of a leading Zimbabwean activist.

Okay Machisa (left), director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) is the most recent victim of a concerted crackdown on civil society activists in the run- …

“Two years after the outbreak of what has come to be known as the Arab Spring, the bloom is off the rose,” says Columbia University professor Sheri Berman:

Fledgling democracies in North Africa are struggling to move forward or …

The west should not set aside its values to embrace a Ukraine that looks more likely to become Europe’s next Belarus rather than its next Poland.

Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s president, is “flirting” with joining Russia’s proposed customs union “as part …