Topic: Middle East (page 32)

Syrian troops arrive at a hill overlooking Turkey-Syria border, about three kilometers inside Syria, as Syrians waiting to enter Turkey rush to the crossing point near the Turkish village of Guvecci in Hatay province, Turkey, Thursday, June 23, 2011. Syrian activists claimed that troops backed by tanks and snipers have entered a village along the Turkish border as the regime expands its crackdown on a pro-democracy movement that has posed the gravest challenge to President Bashar Assad's rule(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
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Syrian troops push to Turkish border

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Burhan Ozbilici
Bahraini Shiite Muslims chant slogans to free prisoners during a sermon Friday, June 10, 2011, in Diraz, Bahrain, when Sheik Issa Qassem, Bahrain's top Shiite cleric, said Bahrain should free political prisoners and that the nation's reputation is being damaged by prosecuting doctors, teachers, youths, women, clerics and other professionals arrested during the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Many Shiite Muslim clerics, including Sheik Ali Salman, leader of the largest opposition party, attended midday prayers in Diraz, an unusual move to show their solidarity with Qassem. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (AP)

Bahrain's crackdown: From the streets to the court

Natasha Lennard
FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, Bahraini women shout "God is greater" in the streets of the Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sanabis in Manama, Bahrain, shortly after riot police dispersed anti-government protesters who began a march after the funeral of a woman they claim died of tear gas inhalation the day before. The Shiite groups that speak on behalf of protesters, who took to the streets four months ago to demand greater rights, have shown no rush to embrace the appeals for dialogue by the Sunni monarchs they accuse of creating a two-tier society in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives and meets African Union Commission Chairperson Jean Ping, right, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, POOL) (AP)

Matthew Lee
FILE - In this Friday, June 3, 2011 file photo, Bahraini women shout "God is greater" in the streets of the Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Sanabis in Manama, Bahrain, shortly after riot police dispersed anti-government protesters who began a march after the funeral of a woman they claim died of tear gas inhalation the day before. The Shiite groups that speak on behalf of protesters, who took to the streets four months ago to demand greater rights, have shown no rush to embrace the appeals for dialogue by the Sunni monarchs they accuse of creating a two-tier society in the strategic Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File) (AP)

Obama finally applying pressure on Bahrain?

Justin Elliott

Natasha Lennard
In this photo taken on a government-organized tourm a Libyan student holds a portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, outside the damaged university building in Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, June 18, 2011. Libyan officials claim that one of the buildings at the university complex was recently hit by a NATO airstrike. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Adam Schreck
FILE - In this Tuesday, May 24, 2011 file photo, Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A campaign to defy Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving opened Friday, June 17, 2011 with female motorists getting behind the wheel, including one who took a 45-minute tour through the nation's capital, amid calls for sustained challenges to the restrictions in the ultraconservative kingdom. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) (Associated Press)

Justin Elliott
Saudi women board a taxi in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A Saudi woman was arrested for a second time for driving her car in what women's activists said Monday was a move by the rulers of the ultraconservative kingdom to suppress an Internet campaign encouraging women to defy a ban on female driving. Manal al-Sherif and a group of other women started a Facebook page called "Teach me how to drive so I can protect myself," urging authorities to lift the ban and posted a video clip last week of al-Sherif behind the wheel in the eastern city of Khobar. The page was removed after more than 12,000 people indicated their support for its call for women drivers to take to the streets in a mass drive on June 17. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) (AP)

Brian Murphy
A Syrian refugee woman brings laundry to an irrigation canal in a camp, in Boynuyogun, Turkey, Tuesday, June 14, 2011. According to the Turkish Prime Minister's office the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey stands at more than 8.500 people.As the government expands its crackdown on dissent, activists report tanks entering the northern town of Maaret al-Numan on Tuesday and other villages near Jisr al-Shughour.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Selcan Hacaoglu, Elizabeth A. Kennedy
President Barack Obama speaks at the beginning of a meeting with the Jobs and Competitiveness Council at the corporate and U.S. manufacturing headquarters of Cree, a leading manufacturer of energy-efficient LED lighting. Monday, June 13, 2011, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

Emma Mustich
A Syrian refugee woman walks in the new refugee tent compound in Boynuyogun, Turkey, near the Syrian border, Sunday, June 12, 2011. Syrian forces launched a crackdown on the Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, fueling fears that the clashes could spark a further influx of refugees towards bordering Turkey.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

Bassem Mroue
An Egyptian prays on an Arabic slogan reads " Jerusalem for us, Palestine is an Arabic land " during a protest against Israel's closure of Gaza at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Josef Federman
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Bassem Mroue
A resident spreads his arms in front of riot police and tanks moving into the Shiite Muslim village of Malkiya, Bahrain, southwest of Manama, on Sunday, March 20, 2011.Bahraini authorities are trying to crush a revolt by the nation's majority Shiites for greater political freedoms. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have sent forces to help Bahrain's Sunni dynasty. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) (Associated Press)

DC firm defends Bahrain on human rights crackdown

Justin Elliott
This image taken from video released by Anatolia Agency shows two Syrian refugee children playing outside tents in a camp built to accommodate 5,000 people in the town of Yayladagi, Hatay province, Turkey near the Syrian border Thursday June 9, 2011. About 1,000 Syrians fleeing violence crossed into Turkey overnight, raising the total number of refugees in the country to 1,600. Hundreds of Syrians fled to Turkey on Thursday as elite Syrian troops moved to encircle a restive town ahead of a possible assault, sharply escalating the upheaval that threatens the 40-year regime led by President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Anatolia Agency via APTN) TURKEY OUT, TV OUT (AP)

Selcan Hacaoglu, Bassem Mroue
Armed Yemeni tribesmen stand on the back of a vehicle in Taiz, Yemen, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Hundreds of armed tribesmen have taken control of part of Yemen's second-largest city, Taiz, security officials said Wednesday. The advance on Taiz showed the government's already tenuous control over the country has slipped further since President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded in a rocket attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa on Friday and left for medical care in neighboring Saudi Arabia. Saleh left as his country was edging closer to civil war. (AP Photo/Anees Mahyoub) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Questions swirl around Syrian-American blogger

Emma Mustich
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, Syrian policemen carry the coffins of their comrades who were killed in recent violence in the country, during their funeral procession at the Police Hospital in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Residents fled the northern region of Jisr al-Shughour on Tuesday where authorities said weekend clashes between armed men and government troops killed 120 security forces, fearing retaliation from a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Melissa Eddy
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian protesters hold an Arabic banner read:"May God help break the silence of the Arab League," as they march during a protest at the village of Kfar-Nebel, in the northen province of Edleb, Syria, on Friday June 3, 2011. Syrian troops pounded a central town with artillery and heavy machinegun fire Friday, killing at least two people in the latest onslaught as authorities cut off Internet service in several regions in an apparent move to prevent the uploading of videos of anti-regime demonstrations, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

Syria: Crackdowns, blackouts, blogger kidnappings

Natasha Lennard
Seen from Majdal Shams, an armed Syrian security officer on a hill over looking Majdal Shams near the border between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights early Monday, June 6, 2011. Syrian police blocked dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters from approaching the Israeli frontier on Monday. The toll of demonstrators killed trying to break through into the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights rose to 23. Syrian police set up a pair of checkpoints, including one a half-mile (kilometer) from the border. Nearly 20 protesters, some waving Syrian flags, began walking down a hill leading to the border when two police officers blocked their advance by extending their arms. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) (AP)

Zeina Karam
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian protesters hold an Arabic banner read:"May God help break the silence of the Arab League," as they march during a protest at the village of Kfar-Nebel, in the northen province of Edleb, Syria, on Friday June 3, 2011. Syrian troops pounded a central town with artillery and heavy machinegun fire Friday, killing at least two people in the latest onslaught as authorities cut off Internet service in several regions in an apparent move to prevent the uploading of videos of anti-regime demonstrations, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

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