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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 340

Arab Spring

Houthi supporters burn the American flag during a rally to mark the seventh anniversary of the Houthis' takeover of the Yemeni capital, in Sanaa, Yemen, September 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
December 28, 2023, 4:29 pm
The power behind the power: How Qatar helped the Houthis become a threat to Israel
While the militia recently emerged as an unlikely menace to international shipping, its combative influence in the region has long been amplified by Doha
By Ksenia Svetlova
Tunisia's President Kais Saied votes in the legislative elections in Tunis, December 17, 2022. (AP/Slim Abid)
December 18, 2022, 8:36 pm
Tunisia’s opposition urges strongman president to quit after election snub
Opposition figure Ahmed Nejib Chebbi says Kais Saied has ‘lost all legal legitimacy’ after only 8.8% of voters turn up to vote, claims Tunisians have rejected power grab
By Kaouther Larbi and Francoise Kadri
A Tunisian voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Ben Arous region near Tunis on December 17, 2022, during the parliamentary election. (YASSINE MAHJOUB / AFP)
December 18, 2022, 6:26 am
With just 8.8% turnout, Tunisians shun vote for powerless new parliament
Election follows power grab by President Kais Saied; preliminary results expected Monday
By Kaouther Larbi
Tunisians line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Tunis, December 17, 2022. AP/Hassene Dridi)
December 17, 2022, 9:39 pm
11 years after ‘disastrous’ revolution, many Tunisians see Arab Spring as a failure
Despite being only country to emerge from uprisings as a democracy, quite a few feel new system was bungled, welcome president’s autocratic reforms
By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
Tunisians celebrate the exit polls indicating a vote in favor of the new Constitution, in Tunis, late Monday, July 25, 2022. Hundreds of supporters of Tunisian President Kais Saied took to the streets to celebrate after the end of voting on a controversial new constitution that critics say could reverse hard-won democratic gains and entrench a presidential power grab. (AP/Riadh Dridi)
July 27, 2022, 6:35 am
Tunisia okays new constitution giving president unchecked power, in low-turnout vote
Opponents claim vote was fraudulent; President Kais Saied last year sacked the government and suspended parliament in a dramatic blow to democracy
By Paul Raymond
A photo taken on January 4, 2014, shows Syrians walking along a severely damaged road in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor (Ahmad Aboud/AFP)
June 28, 2022, 7:47 pm
Over 300,000 civilians killed in Syria’s 10-year civil war, UN says
Highest death toll estimate for conflict does not include tens of thousands of soldiers also dead
By Jamey Keaten
Visitors outside the Louvre Museum, in Paris on April 29, 2022. (AFP)
May 27, 2022, 11:36 am
Ex-Louvre director charged with fraud in acquisition of ancient Egyptian artifacts
Jean-Luc Martinez accused of money laundering, ‘concealing the origin of criminally obtained works’ bought for French museum’s Abu Dhabi branch
By Murielle Kasprzak and Joseph Schmid
An honor guard member is covered by the flag of Saudi Arabia, in Washington, on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
June 16, 2021, 8:29 am
Saudi Arabia executes man accused of joining anti-government Shiite ‘rebellion’
Amnesty says unclear if Mustafa bin Hashim bin Isa al-Darwish was executed for crimes committed while still a minor despite kingdom ending practice, slams trial as ‘deeply flawed’
By Aya Batrawy
In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo)
April 16, 2021, 8:57 am
How Israel kept the Arab Spring from becoming the winter of its discontent
Under Netanyahu’s leadership, the Jewish state survived the difficult early years to come out on top as Iran and jihadists are on the defensive
By Lazar Berman
Displaced Syrians are seen leaving opposition-held areas of Daraa on June 26, 2018. ( Mohamad ABAZEED/AFP)
March 18, 2021, 7:04 pm
From exile, Syrian conflict’s first protesters reflect on a decade of death
Unable to return home, activists from Daraa who set aside their lives to join marches in the streets continue to support a cause that they hope can still prevail
By Sarah El Deeb and Bassam Mroue
An ultra-Orthodox man faces off with police officers during enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in Jerusalem, January 26, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 26, 2021, 4:24 pm
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By ToI Staff
People wave flags in Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the popular uprising that led to the quick ouster of autocrat president Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo, Egypt, January 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
January 24, 2021, 7:12 pm
Arab Spring exiles look back 10 years after Egyptian uprising
Some of those who have fled abroad say political situation in Egypt is more oppressive now than before 2011 revolt: ‘It’s much more serious, it’s much deeper and much darker’
By SYLVIA HUI
A protester faces riot police officers during a demonstration against the party of Tunisian ruler Ben Ali, in the center of Tunis, Tunisia, January 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
December 15, 2020, 10:33 am
A decade on, Arab Spring’s legacy marked by upheaval and lost hopes
After wave of mass protests calling for political change was largely snuffed out by repression and civil war, some activists still hope that reform will eventually come
By Lee Keath
Sudanese demonstrators wave Sudan's independence-era flag (R) as smoke billows from burning tyres during a protest in Khartoum, June 30, 2020. (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)
December 7, 2020, 10:04 am
Arab insurgents return to independence-era flags to spurn dictatorship
In Syria, Libya and Sudan, revolutionaries see national banners of the past as a way of showing their rejection of the regimes they wish to overthrow
By Sammy Ketz
One of fourteen Egyptians, who refused to be identified, on trial on charges of receiving illicit foreign funds to operate unlicensed NGOs, leaves a cage in a court room in the capital Cairo, March 8, 2012. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
December 7, 2020, 8:57 am
Decade after Arab Spring, vast numbers of political detainees languish in prison
Autocratic regimes still in power, cracking down on dissent in Egypt and Syria, where thousands have died in custody and more harbor scant hopes of freedom
By AFP
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