Is Putin Showing Weakness in Face of Opposition Movement? Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin switches campaign managers in the middle of an election campaign. Is his position as solid as he would like the world to think? The prime minister was tal...
Syrian Opposition Groups Try to Meld Divergent Approaches As the Arab League moves closer to Syria's opposition, differences in both aims and approach among anti-government forces are coming to the fore. Syria's opposition is united on one point: the...
Syrian Opposition Groups Demand President Step Down Syrian opposition groups ended a two-day meeting in Turkey on Thursday with the demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down. Opposition activists are also calling for protests nationwide Friday,...
Uganda Protesters Clash With Police Over Opposition Leader's Arrest Riots have broken out in Kampala after the fourth arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye. According to reports, there have been confrontations between rioters and Ugandan police a...
US Committing 25 Million in Aid to Libyan Opposition The Obama administration is preparing to provide $25 million in non-lethal aid to Libya's opposition Transitional National Council, the TNC. The plan was confirmed Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of St...
Libyan Opposition Gives War Lessons to Youth The uprising against the 41-year rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi began peacefully. But when government troops used force to suppress the demonstrations, they escalated into what increasingly looks li...
Yemen Opposition Rejects Gulf Proposal on Power Transfer Yemen's opposition rejected on Monday a Gulf Arab initiative for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down because the proposal appears to offer him immunity from prosecution, while Saleh himse...
Vietnamese officials are criticizing the Lao government's controversial plan to build a dam on the Mekong River. Analysts say opposition from Vietnam and other lower Mekong countries could force Laos to scale back its hydropower ambitions. Vietnamese...
Police have arrested leading opposition politicians in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Some analysts would say there's a chilly political wind blowing this winter across the Slavic core of the old Soviet Union. In Ukraine, one former minister is in jail...