Friday, March 2, 2012 at 11:27 | James Miller in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2134 GMT: Amazing videos of night protests in Syria - the first, a VERY large protest in Soran, Hama:
Next, the LCCS shares this video from the Hamadiyah district of Hama:
1901 GMT: People protest in Tabriz, but there appear to be snipers on the rooftops.
Yet another video from Tabriz. Some of the people there are carrying objects (it is unclear whether they are looters, or merchants who work in the area) when suddenly gunfire breaks out:
1856 GMT: Video of the protests in Tabriz, in support of the people of Urmia and against government policies that have led to the drying of Urmia lake:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 16:58 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran Now see Monday's Libya LiveBlog: The Last Push Against Former Leader Qaddafi
View Free Tripoli - Red Rebel - Green Gaddafi in a larger map
Map of the reported fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli
See also Saturday's Syria, Libya (and Beyond) LiveBlog: Emergency Meetings
0451 GMT: James Miller is going to bed. Scott Lucas will be picking things up, with a brand new Live blog and a brand new URL. Check back between 0530 and 0600 GMT.
Al Jazeera has this update:
Senior Libyan rebel figure Mahmoud Jibril said early Monday there are still pockets of resistance in Tripoli from forces loyal to strongman Muammer Gaddafi, after rebels surged into the capital.
"I warn you, there are still pockets of resistance in and around Tripoli," Jibril said in a speech on the opposition television station al-Ahrar.
"You have to be aware that some pockets are coming from the east and you have to be cautious. The fight is not over yet. God willing, in a few hours our victory will be complete."
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 15:13 | James Miller in EA Middle East and Turkey, EA USA, Middle East and Iran ;)
World leaders condemned the violence in Syria today and demanded President Assad step down.
See Also, Syria, Libya (and Beyond) Liveblog: The Crackdown has Stopped?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Announces New Sanctions Against Syria
1755 GMT: Border Watch. Iranian state media are reporting that two Revolutionary Guards and 21 Kurdish insurgents have died in further fighting near the Iraq border. Two Guards were reportedly wounded in the clash in the city of Sardasht.
A senior Revolutionary Guards commander and five troops were killed in fighting earlier this week. Iranian officials say at least 50 members of the insurgent group PJAK have died in the battles over the last fortnight.
1535 GMT: Cyber-Watch. An official of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has explained that linking to social networks is a "computer crime".
Unemployed in Gafsa (August 2010)A few weeks before the month of Ramadan sets in, Tunisia faces the economic fallout of two very different recent events. The first happened nearly five months ago and swept General Zine el Abidine Ben Ali from power in a popular uprising which wrought minimum damage on the fabric of Tunisian farming, manufacturing and tourism infrastructure - indeed there were numerous instances of workers defending factories against marauders or Ben Ali's militia. The second has been in Libya, where the three month UN-authorised military intervention, formally led by NATO, in what had already become a civil war, has inflicted considerable damage to the country's infrastructure. The instability attendant to a prolonged military campaign in Libya presents a serious strategic threat to its northern neighbour, Tunisia.
With smaller Palestinian factions’ signatures, Fatah and Hamas formally ended a four-year conflict on Wednesday. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas’s Syria-based leader Khaled Mashaal were present in Cairo, and Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank celebrated by raising Palestinian, Hamas, Fatah and Egyptian flags.
The Ramallah-based website, Palestine Monitor, claimed to have the text of the reconciliation deal....
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 at 10:38 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
Prayer at Protest in Homs, Syria (Photo: Reuters)2110 GMT: The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Yemeni authorities to explain why they have held journalist Ali Salah Ahmed since Tuesday without revealing his location or charging him with a crime.
Ahmed, an anchor for the privately-owned news channel Suhail, with ties to the opposition party Al-Islah, was seized upon his arrival from Germany.
Ahmed worked for several years as the program director of the official state-run television station Yamania but resigned in 2009 denouncing government attempts to manipulate news coverage of civil unrest in southern Yemen.
Ahmad al-Mohamadi, a reporter for Suhail, is also missing after he was called in for questioning Saturday by the Republican Guards.
The CPJ also highlighted the testimony of several journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan, who said anti-riot police attacked them on Monday as they were covering protests in Erbil.
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 12:59 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 2210 GMT: In Egypt, actor and activist Aly Sobhy, whose detention we noted earlier today (see 1430 GMT), has been released.
Sobhy was seized by the military on Wednesday as he tried to get the names of protesters who had been detained in Tahrir Square in Cairo.
2130 GMT: Another video of today's mass pro-democracy march to Safriya Palace in Bahrain:
2020 GMT: Al Jazeera cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, has been killed after a crew of the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by regime forces near the town of Benghazi.
Reporter Nasser Al Haddar was also injured by a gunshot.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 5:55 | Scott Lucas in Africa, EA Global, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
2055 GMT: Al Jazeera is reporting two killed and 10 injured in an attempt on protesters at Sanaa University in Yemen.
2050 GMT: Another quote from former Minister of Interior (and former close Qaddafi friend) Abdul Fattah Younis, "(The bombing of civilians) pained me deeply, it is the main reason I decided to join this revolution."
2035 GMT: Here's a twist on this afternoon's Qaddafi speech....
The Libyan leader said, in his 90-minute ramble, that Minister of Interior Abdul Fattah Younis had survived an assassination attempt but was missing.
Well, tonight Younis has said, "Qaddafi's men came to shoot me but the bullets missed me."
2030 GMT: The office of Algerian President Addelaziz Bouteflika said he approved a Government decision to lift the 1992 State of Emergency.
The brief statement said the change was "imminent" but gave no date.
