Michael Slackman

Iran has already benefited from the ouster or undermining of Arab leaders who were its strong adversaries and has begun to project its growing influence, analysts say.

The movement for change in the Arab world is not necessarily over, but it has run up against dictators willing to use lethal force to preserve their power.

In the fight for influence between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the United States may end up the loser.

The most serious challenge in two decades to 40 years of repressive rule by the Assad family erupted in violence when soldiers opened fire on peaceful demonstrators.

The resignation came ahead of a speech President Bashar al-Assad is expected to give to the nation on Wednesday that may offer other concessions.

President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday offered no concessions to ease the grip on public life exercised by his authoritarian regime.

The Arab Spring uprisings showed hard-line Islamists who had embraced violence a peaceful path to change.

Journals have long been a way for The Times’s foreign correspondents to bring readers with them as they explore a distant land. But they have needed a reboot, our international editor writes.

Our international editor introduces Promises Made, a new series that investigates whether those in power did what they said they would.

Mr. Mubarak, who had been likened to a modern-day pharaoh, was deposed in 2011 by the popular unrest in the Arab world that came to be called the Arab Spring.