The short (-ish) answer is that the Quartet is a mix of civil society groups — labor, business, human rights and legal groups — whose leaders became mediators between Tunisia's Islamists and ...

Tunisia’s civil society is facing increasing repression under President Kais Saied, with activists detained and key ...

In Syria the damage is done, and future generations will continue to suffer from the cruel folly of those convinced they know ...

The government prides itself on its relative openness, compared with its neighbors, Algeria, which experienced a vicious civil war in the 1990s, and Libya, which has been under the rule of Moammar ...

He just shook his head and hoped the war next door would soon end."We're just going to have to let 2011 go, and hope 2012 is better," he said.

Civil war soon followed. Foreign intervention has failed to stop the war, which has displaced more than half of all Syrians and killed up to half a million people. What did the Arab Spring accomplish?

In Egypt and Tunisia, new strongmen eventually rose to power, crushing efforts to build pluralist democracies. In Libya and Yemen, rival militias jockeyed for control, leading to civil war and the ...

In 2013, Tunisia was reeling from the assassination of figures who led the opposition to its ruling Islamist party, Ennahda. After the first of those killings — of outspoken lawyer Chokri Belaid — the ...