Tanks and other military vehicles go on a rampage running indiscriminately into demonstrators during protests by Coptic Christians in Cairo... ...

The post-revolutionary honeymoon period is clearly over. The military is still full of Mubarak’s appointees and has been quick to detain dissidents and utilise torture ever since taking command. ...

Saudi Arabia fears Iranian influence – its Bahrain intervention has echoes of the Soviet reaction to the 1956 Hungary uprising Democracy is arriving in the Middle East, albeit slowly. But what is making progre ...