Sources: Reuters
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights's president Nabeel Rajab is arrested by representatives of Bahrain's Interior Ministry on arrival at Manama airport from Lebanon ahead of his scheduled court appearance. 2012-05-5
The Bahraini regime presses ahead with its plans to use the Formula 1 Grand Prix as a symbol of national unity. 2012-04-21
Three people including an Australian journalist, an American student and their Egyptian guide are arrested in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra for allegedly offering inducements to people to join. 2012-02-11
2011 Syrian uprising: 250 Syrians, mostly civilians, have been killed so far this month, as the violence escalates in Syria's eight-month-old crackdown on pro-democracy protests and attacks on security forces increase. 2011-11-11
3 former Egyptian ministers - former interior minister Habib el-Adly, former finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali ("in absentia") and former prime minister Ahmed Nazif - from the Mubarak regime are given jail sentences. 2011-07-12
2011 Libyan civil war: The French military reports France air-dropped weapons to anti-regime Berber rebels trying to bring down Muammar Gaddafi in the west's Nafusa Mountains in early June. "Le Figaro" suggests rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles were among the weapons dropped. 2011-06-29
NATO extends its mission on Libya for an additional 90 days. 2011-06-1
The cities of Yafran and al-Qalaa in the Nafusa Mountains are in critical condition following ongoing attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's forces, with heavy artillery shelling continuing, water supplies shut off, and no food or medical supplies coming into the towns for weeks. 2011-05-27
2011 Yemeni protests: Yemeni security forces kill at least 12 people and wound more than 100 others with bullets in Sana'a and elsewhere as protests against the Ali Abdullah Saleh regime continue. 2011-04-27
The Libyan government announces a ceasefire, amid foreign military preparations after a no-fly zone was imposed yesterday. 2011-03-18