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World
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International
2/13/2026 2:32:31 PM
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has claimed victory in the country’s first election since the 2024 uprising, positioning itself to form the next government and potentially reshape Bangladesh’s political landscape after years of intense rivalry and disputed polls.
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World
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International
11/23/2025 3:41:08 PM
Hundreds of thousands of new voters have registered to cast their ballot in Nepal's first polls since a mass uprising in September ousted the government, election officials said on Sunday.
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World
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International
11/19/2025 12:56:04 PM
This week's sentencing to death of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity is seen by her opponents as a chance to move forward for a nation traumatized by the scale of the violent uprising that drove her from power into exile.
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Opinion
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Opinion
11/13/2025 12:00:00 AM
The rise of Political Islam in the wake of the 2011 Arab uprisings raised crucial questions about the Arab world’s experience of modernity over the past 200 years.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/7/2025 12:23:35 PM
The fundamental problem that the 2011 Arab uprisings faced was that their will for total transformation was not widely shared among larger social segments.
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World
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Region
8/13/2025 7:55:26 PM
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday hit out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's call for Iranians to rise up against their government over power and water shortages.
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World
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Region
3/15/2025 9:24:47 PM
Syrians gathered on Saturday to commemorate the 14th anniversary of their uprising with a public demonstration in Damascus for the first time since President Bashar Al-Assad was toppled, while a blast in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia killed at least four people.
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World
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Africa
2/24/2025 6:36:18 PM
More than 7,000 people have died this year as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have captured unprecedented amounts of territory in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's prime minister said Monday.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/25/2024 11:47:38 AM
Sudan's former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled for 30 years before he was toppled in a popular uprising and then jailed by the country's military rulers, has been transferred to a medical facility in northern Sudan, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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World
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International
8/13/2024 12:43:57 PM
When a mass uprising forced Bangladesh’s longtime prime minister to step down and flee the country last week, a 65-year-old retired auditor who had worked for her political party feared for his life.
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World
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International
8/8/2024 11:17:20 AM
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/14/2024 4:30:37 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently issued a harsh rebuke to the US over the student uprising in US universities against the genocide Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.
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World
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Africa
7/29/2023 4:07:52 PM
General Abdourahamane Tiani, the chief of Niger's powerful presidential guard who took power after a military coup, is an army veteran who has foiled similar uprisings in the restive West African nation.
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World
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International
7/7/2023 12:36:50 PM
Russia’s rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin walked free from prosecution for his June 24 armed mutiny, and it's still unclear if anyone will face any charges in the aborted uprising against military leaders or for the deaths of the soldiers killed in it.
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World
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Region
7/5/2023 2:29:17 PM
Airstrikes targeting Palestinians in a crowded residential area. Armored bulldozers plowing through narrow streets, crushing cars and piling up debris. Protesters burning tires. A mounting death toll.
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World
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International
6/26/2023 6:47:09 PM
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group defended his short-lived insurrection in an audio statement Monday, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance since the uprising that demanded his ouster, in a video aimed at projecting a sense of order after the country’s most serious political crisis in decades.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/25/2023 5:15:14 PM
Russia's foreign ministry said Sunday that Beijing had backed Moscow's efforts to counter a short-lived armed uprising led by the head of the Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/24/2023 6:39:48 PM
Russia's close ally Belarus said Saturday that the armed insurrection underway by the Wagner mercenary group was a "gift" to Western countries, warning the uprising could spell "disaster".
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/24/2023 5:35:37 PM
Once a low-profile businessman who benefited from having President Vladimir Putin as a powerful patron, Yevgeny Prigozhin moved into the global spotlight with Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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World
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International
6/20/2023 7:49:05 PM
The French government said Tuesday that it would shut down an activist climate group over a series of recent demonstrations including one that led to fierce clashes with police over a controversial irrigation project.
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