Mahmoud Al-Ken of Al Jazeera English adds another investigative account --- see, for example, "Searching for the Truth of the Mass Killing in Houla" --- of May's attack on civilians in Houla in Homs Province by regime supporters. More than 100 people, many of them children, perished.
The "independence flag" is celebrated in "liberated" Al-Bab, 3 August 2012
In the ransacked and burnt-out remains of various security headquarters in al-Bab lie many clues to the means used by Bashar al-Assad's government to stay in power, revealing why life under the regime had become increasingly intolerable for its citizens.
In the widely-hated building of military security, the formerly locked cupboards containing files on the town's "suspect” citizens and how to "manage" them are now all emptied of their contents.
Al Jazeera English's The Cafe hosts a 45-minute discussion with Jordanians across the political spectrum on the state of the country, the monarchy, and the prospect of "reform":
Al Jazeera English, Jordan, The Cafe This spring has brought escalating tension in the African state of Mali, with a coup on 21 March, the declaration of independence in the north by the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, the seizure of some of that territory by Ansar Dine, said to be linked to Al Qa'eda, and this week's destruction of historic mausoleums in Timbuktu by that group.
Al Jazeera English's Inside Story explains and evaluates the situation with a former Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, a former Algerian ambassador, and a London-based analyst.
The destruction in the Jouret al-Shayyah section of Homs
Today, July 3, marks the 26th day since the siege on the opposition-stronghold neighbourhoods in Homs began.
Three out of the four roads that connected us to other neighbourhoods in the city had been blocked throughout that period.
But on Tuesday, the Syrian army blocked the fourth road.
Al Jazeera English, Rafeeq, Syria Sparked by Government austerity measures, protests were renewed in Sudan against the Bashir regime on 15 June. In an episode of Inside Story broadcast last Friday, Al Jazeera English talks to two analysts --- one from Sudan and one from Britain --- and a member of the opposition Democratic Union Party about the future of the demonstrations.
Al Jazeera English's Inside Story, broadcast on 16 June 2009, with Tehran University's Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor Anoush Ehteshami of Durham University, and EA's Scott Lucas:
On Monday, Al Jazeera English's The Stream discussed the situation in Bahrain with former MP Matar Matar of the opposition society Al Wefaq, human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, and Fahad Albinali of the regime's Information Affairs Authority:
Last week was marked by tensions over the opposition Syrian National Council, with key groups threatening to freeze their activities or even withdraw in protest. Days after he was re-elected to a three-month term, SNC head Burhan Ghalioun resigned.
Al Jazeera English's Inside Story considers the issues with Bassma Kodmani, a senior SNC figure; Kamal al-Labwani, a Syrian opposition activist and former SNC member; and Joshua Landis, the academic who runs the Syria Comment website.
In the capital Algiers at least, life seemed freer and more lively than we expected. The shops and cafes were full and, superficially at least, this did not seem to be a place on the cusp of revolution. It felt like a country coming out of something very bad and now quite determinedly making the best of a difficult situation.
But when we began meeting human rights activists, we got a much better sense of what ordinary Algerians are up against and what they really think. To start with, the military and intelligence people, the DRS, are omnipresent, so meetings had to be arranged surreptitiously. On one occasion, for example, a contact identified himself at a street corner by using pre-arranged code words. Then he asked us to follow him very discreetly and at a distance to the Metro, past the police and the surveillance cameras, onto a train and out to his tiny apartment in the suburbs. Only when safely behind closed doors did he feel able to speak freely about the repression and the many economic problems the country faces - a housing crisis, rocketing unemployment and spiralling food prices. He told us things were so bad that desperate young people were burning themselves alive.
