Syria's brutal regime exposed: 'torture and detention is systematic' - video
Syrian activists give personal accounts of how government forces have attempted to quash the Arab Spring uprising using violent tactics - including torture, detention and beatings
October 2011
Syria's protesters turn to Facebook to expose 'citizen spies'
Activists use the internet to find and unmask those they suspect of reporting their neighbours to security forces
April 2011
Syria's cyber revolution - video
Syria's young cyber activists keep protests in view
March 2011
Video witness
Yemen's school of democracy - video
In schools across Yemen students are preparing to vote for a representative to sit in the children's parliament. We follow Bashir as he runs for election
October 2010
Cargo bombs from Yemen open new front in al-Quaida terror war
The discovery of explosive devices on board planes in the UK and Dubai appears to confirm Saudi warnings that terror groups based in the Arabian Peninsula are determine to mount a new wave of attacks on the west
Hezbollah gives Ahmadinejad a hero's welcome in southern Lebanon
Iranian president taken to the town of Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border where he meets families of dead fighters
Beirut gives Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a warm welcome
Iranian president's Lebanon visit seen as a boost for Hezbollah and described by White House as provocative
July 2010
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah laid to rest in Lebanon
Delegations from across Middle East travel to Beirut to pay respects to spiritual father of Hezbollah
Thousands gather in Beirut for funeral of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
Spiritual leader instrumental in establishment of Hezbollah and growth of Shia political power laid to rest in city's southern suburbs
Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at 74
Shias mourn their revered cleric, who was accused by the US and Israel of inspiring terrorists
June 2010
Australian woman accused of al-Qaida link held in Yemen
Muslim convert detained in prison without charge on suspicion of connection to terrorist branch responsible for failed US bomb plot
May 2010
Senior Yemen al-Qaida leader reported killed in Saudi Arabia
YouTube Islamist: how Anwar al-Awlaki became al-Qaida's link to local terror
April 2010
UK ambassador in Yemen escapes assassination attempt
Suicide bomber attacks UK ambassador's convoy in Yemen
March 2010
Millions of Yemenis starving as donors fail to meet pledges, says UN
• £70m needed this year and next to feed poor and hungry • Traditional donors, including Britain, have yet to offer aid
February 2010
Yemen threatens to chew itself to death over thirst for narcotic qat plant
Water supply already causes armed conflict in the capital Sanaa, but there is worse to come for a hungry country when the oilfields run dry
January 2010
90 feared dead as Ethiopian Airlines jet plunges into sea off Lebanon
Airline bombing plot: Al-Qaida supporting cleric may face arrest
