The U.N. chief demanded Sunday that Syria’s president stop killing his own people and said the “old order” of one-man rule and family dynasties is over in the Middle East. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, delivering the keynote address at a conference in Beirut on democracy in the Arab world, said the revolutions of the Arab Spring [...]
The United States moved to restore full diplomatic relations with Myanmar on Friday, rewarding the sweeping political and economic changes that the country’s new civilian government has made, including a cease-fire with ethnic rebels and, only hours before, the release of hundreds of political prisoners. Freeing the prisoners, which President Obama praised as a “substantial [...]
Syria pressed on with a crackdown on dissent after Qatar’s premier suggested that United Nations assistance is needed to improve the Arab League’s monitoring of government compliance with a plan to end the violence. “This is the first time the Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes,” Qatari Prime Minister [...]
The Arab League has raised questions about its commitment to halting Syria’s deadly crackdown on protesters by putting a Sudanese general with close ties to an indicted war criminal in charge of a monitoring mission intended to hold the regime accountable. The first 50 members of an envisioned 150-person monitoring group arrived in Syria on [...]