Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor whose cart was confiscated by the police, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt. Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 ...

With long-standing U.S. allies toppled or under pressure from unprecedented dissent across the Arab world, Michael Doran, in "The Heirs of Nasser" (May/June 2011), warns that Iran is poised to walk ...

We'll forgive you if you don't associate Levi's jeans with the Middle East uprisings. But, hey, maybe someday you will. Levi's president Robert Hanson tells Reuters today that the company's global "Go ...

Egypt’s authoritarian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has pardoned nearly three dozen political prisoners, including a leader of the Arab Spring uprising that ousted then-President Hosni Mubarak in ...

When President Obama stepped into the State Department on May 19 to deliver his long-awaited speech on the Middle East, he did so amid fears that the Arab Spring was devolving into a Summer of ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab women played a central role in the Arab Spring, but their hopes the revolts would bring greater freedom and expanded rights for women have been thwarted by entrenched ...

The past few months have brought despair to millions of Arabs as they’ve watched the rapid and seemingly definitive restoration of an old, dictatorial order throughout a region that was not long ago ...