Month: September 2011

CNN updated Sep 11, 2011 21:28 GMT Human Rights Watch called on Saudi Arabian authorities Sunday to immediately drop charges against prominent Saudi human rights activist Walid Abu al-Khair. The rights group said in a statement...

(AFP) – JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday discussed a five-year economic development plan for Jordan and Morocco, which both hope to join the alliance of oil-rich monarchies, officials said. The six...

By Gregory Viscusi September 10, 2011 18:01 EDT Western and Middle Eastern governments pledged to help Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan make the transition to democracy, mobilizing $38 billion of financing, mostly through...

Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) – Morocco’s Foreign Minister Taib Fassi Fihri called, Sunday in Jeddah, for the creation of working groups composed of legal experts and specialists to examine the institutional and legal...

By William Maclean and Maria Golovnina TRIPOLI/OUTSIDE BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) – – Libya’s new rulers said on Sunday their fighters were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Muammar...