Syria, Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: In the Camps

A refugee camp of Syrians in Turkey (Reuters)

2110 GMT: NATO has acknowledged that an airstrike on the Libyan capital Tripoli may have caused "a number of civilian casualties" when a residential building was destroyed.

The Libyan regime, claiming nine people were killed and six injured, has been showing foreign journalists the building site and taking them to a hospital where casualties have been taken.

"This is cold-blooded murder," regime spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said amidst the rubble of the building. "Is this the protection of civilians? Is this really the search for peace and democracy in Libya, to attack peaceful neighborhoods of Tripoli?"

NATO said in a statement Sunday that a military missile site was the strike's intended target: "However, it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target and that there may have been a weapons system failure."

The development has already had an effect on reporting: the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, in a lengthy report tonight that highlighted the damage and hostile reactions of local residents, declared, "For NATO, this has been the worst day since the start of the conflict."

2015 GMT: Video of rival groups confronting each other in Morocco today --- pro-reform protesters were out on the streets, claiming that the King's speech on Friday for limited constitutional reforms was inadequate:

1912 GMT: The Syrian state news agency is reporting that President Assad will address the nation Monday about "current circumstances".

1910 GMT: Claimed footage of protest in Idlib Province in Syria's northwest today:

1825 GMT: According to Ben Wedeman of CNN, three Grad rockets have been fired by Libyan regime forces into Misurata's Habara district. There is no word on casualties.

1820 GMT: Mohammed Jamjoom of CNN reports that more than 100 influential religious and tribal leaders have declared Yemeni President Saleh is not able to lead the country and should step down.

Jamjoom adds that the head of security in Zinjibar, the site of battles between the regime and insurgents in the south, has said city it is a ghost town amongst non-stop clashes over the past two days.

1635 GMT: Ben Wedeman of CNN updates that eight opposition fighters have been killed and more than 30 wounded by regime bombardment on the Dafniya front, west of insurgent-held Misurata in Libya.

1630 GMT: Footage has been posted of a crowd at the site of a building in the Libyan capital Tripoli which the regime claims was demolished by a NATO airstrike (see 0705 GMT).

1625 GMT: Claimed footage of protest in Homs in Syria today:

1620 GMT: Extended clip of a march in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today, calling for the formal departure of President Saleh and a transitional council:

1525 GMT: In Bahrain, lawyers for three former editors of the main opposition newspaper Al-Wasat have challenged allegations of unethical coverage by their clients.

The charges against the trio, who pleaded not guilty last month, include publishing false news and endangering public order. If convicted, they face at least two years in jail and large fines.

The main editor, Mansoor al-Jamri, told the court that the editors overlooked fabricated information because of the difficult conditions facing the paper during demonstrations, including damage in raids by regime supporters and threats against the staff.

Another hearing in the case is set for 3 July.

1340 GMT: In Suez, Egyptian armed forces have fired live ammunition into the air in an attempt to end the protest of workers from the Suez Arsenal Company .

The army wanted to ensure the passage of a gas tanker through the Suez Canal.

Workers of the seven Suez Canal Authority subsidiaries are protesting for the sixth day, demanding better pay and work benefits.

On Saturday, the Egyptian military fired shots in the air in Ismailia to prevent hundreds of striking Suez Canal workers from storming the administration office of the Canal Authority.

1330 GMT: Military and medical officials report that regime shelling in southern Yemen has killed 12 insurgents and wounded three others.

The shelling was concentrated on the Dufas area in Zinjibar, capital of Abyan Province.

1120 GMT:Al Masry Al Youm posts a feature on the "popular committees" formed by neighbourhoods during the Egyptian uprising for protection, exploring how they have taken on new roles after the fall of the Mubarak regime:

It’s in the work of these groups that the revolution continues: From representing community demands to engaging local residents to hold their government accountable, these committees are making politics relevant to people's everyday lives.

For most committees, politics is no longer “out there” in a remote sphere from which they feel marginalized; politics is at home. For the broader society, popular committees are an opportunity to communicate with once-invisible citizens.

At one meeting, I met Marwa, clad in a black niqab, who spoke of how she worked with her committee to spread liberal values in the villages of Sohag. In another, Peter from Shubra described how his main initiative was to encourage Coptic youth to become more active outside the Church, shifting the locus of their identity from religion to community. At a recent meeting in Imbaba, I met the father of a young resident who was killed during the uprising. “The revolution is not in Tahrir,” he announced. “How many people died in Tahrir compared to all of our neighborhoods? The revolution is here [in Imbaba] and we must continue fighting for it.”

1010 GMT: Reports this morning of fighting near Dafniya in Libya, with at least four fighters dead on both sides.

NATO has said that it has hit one command facility, two vehicle facilities, 1 rocket launcher, four artillery pieces, and two missile launchers in its latest airstrikes on Tripoli.

0815 GMT: Two videos of protest in sections of the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, the first in Harasta honouring martyrs during the uprising, the second in Barzeh:

0705 GMT: NATO has admitted that its aircraft mistakenly struck insurgent military vehicles on Thursday near the Libyan oil port of Brega. The number of casualties is unknown.

In April, NATO twice hit opposition positions, killing more than a dozen fighters.

Meanwhile, the Libyan regime displayed a destroyed cinder-block house in Tripoli that neighbors and officials said was hit by a NATO airstrike. Two bodies were pulled from the rubble, and officials showed reporters three more victims, including an infant and a child, at Tripoli Central Hospital.

0700 GMT: Eyes on Morocco today, where large protests are expected in major cities. In a speech on Friday, King Mohammed VI offered limited constitutional reforms, but the opposition immediately replied that the measures were superficial and left power in the hands of the monarch.

0625 GMT: The Egyptian military continues its interrogations of journalists and bloggers who write critical articles. On Sunday, journalist Rasha Azab and Editor-in-Chief Adel Hammouda of Al-Fagr will appear before military prosecutors.

Azab wrote an article detailing the meeting that took place between members of the rule Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the No to Military Trials campaigners.

Other journalists who have been questioned in recent months include Ahram Online reporter Hossam El-Hamalawy and TV host Reem Maged. 

0600 GMT: There is no such thing as a quiet day in North Africa and the Middle East, but Saturday was slow for headline news, as the protests of Friday gave way to a settling of battle lines. 

In Syria, the Assad regime, unable to quell protest throughout the country, appears to have made a decision to "lock down" certain areas. Earlier this spring, it was the south around Daraa; now it is the northwest around Jisr al Shughour near the Turkish border.

On Saturday, the military occupied two towns only two miles from the frontier, while more residents fled into the woods and fields and, if possible, crossed the border.

Another boat fleeing conflict in Libya arrived in southern Sicily on Saturday. Six of the 235 migrants, suffering from hypothermia and malnutrition, were taken to a hospital.

Earlier, Italian customs, police, and coastguard boats had assisted another 159 migrants as they neared the island of Pantelleria.

Since the start of the year more than 11,000 African refugees have landed in southern Italy. Catholic aid group Sant'Egidio says 1,820, most from south of the Sahara, have drowned in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.