Arab Protests

• Israeli Police up Alert Level After Arab Protests

  Israeli police have raised their alert level following protests across the country over the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old Arab who appeared in video footage to be retreating from police.

• As Arab regimes fall, Al-Qaida watches, sidelined

  For nearly two decades, the leaders of Al-Qaida have denounced the Arab world's dictators as heretics and puppets of the West and called for their downfall. Now, people in country after country have risen to topple their leaders - and Al-Qaida has played absolutely no role. In fact, the motley opposition movements that have appeared so suddenl...

• Two reported dead in anti-president protests in Yemen

  Two protesters were reportedly killed and around 11 were wounded on Tuesday evening when supporters of Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire in front of the Saana University.Government supporters swinging clubs tried to drive anti-government protesters from a square in Yemen's capital late on Tuesday, as tens of thousands rallied across ...

• Bahrain: Protesters take over main square

  Police in Bahrain shot dead one person and wounded several others during protests in the capital Manama on Tuesday, Hezbollah's television channel Al Manar reported.Officials at Bahrain's Salmaniya Medical Complex said a 31-year-old man, Fadhel Salman Matrook, became the second fatality when he died of injuries from gunfire during the melee in the ...

• Al Jazeera's role in Arab world's protests

  The protests rocking the Arab world this week have one thread uniting them: Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite channel whose aggressive coverage has helped propel insurgent emotions from one capital to the next.Al Jazeera has been widely hailed for helping enable the revolt in Tunisia with its galvanizing early reports, even as Western-aligned p...