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Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab says two Americans have been detained by Bahraini security forces and US Embassy is looking into the reports.
2012-02-11

2011 Yemeni uprising: At least seven people die after forces loyal to the President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh shell the city of Taez. A further 32 were injured.
2011-11-11

Troops storm a town near the border with Lebanon, rounding up more than 500 people.
2011-07-17

2011 Omani protests: A court jails 13 people who had demanded better jobs in protests in the city of Sohar.
2011-06-29

A Syrian military spokesman says more than 400 members of security forces have been killed in the months-long unrest as videos surface allegedly showing children killed in the violence.
2011-06-26

Tunisian revolution: Ousted former President of Tunisia Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife are sentenced to 35 years in prison for misappropriating public funds, with the trial held "in absentia".
2011-06-20

2011 Libyan civil war: A NATO airstrike kills at least 11 people rising up against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the besieged Libyan port of Misrata.
2011-04-28

UN Human Rights Watch announces that Bahrain authorities are harassing and isolating hospital patients wounded in anti-government protests.
2011-03-30

Protests continue in cities across Syria demanding greater freedoms; gunfire is also heard in Deraa.
2011-03-25

Eighty-four-year-old Abdelhamid Mehri, former leader of Algeria's governing party, writes a letter to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asking that he change his government in response to the unrest across the Arab world.
2011-02-17