The seeds of the Arab Spring were sown on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi ... leading to anti-government protests across the region. By January 14, 2011, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine ...
Life during the Jasmine Revolution was full of hope – especially for Black Tunisians, as everyone fought for a free country.
At the end of 2010, protests broke out in Tunisia's neglected interior and then spread to the main cities in the east. After a huge demonstration in Tunis on January 14, 2011, Ben Ali left the ...
In power in Libya for 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi used the country’s oil billions to sponsor insurgencies across Africa ...
It has been ten years since widespread protests erupted in Tunisia ... liberties around the world, Tunisia has made it from “not free” in 2010 to “free” in the following years.
In December 2010, a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire in protest of widespread corruption ... The Syrian army in 2011 deployed tanks to Deraa, killing thousands and cutting survivors ...
In early 2011, Assad dismissed the possibility that revolutions like the ones seen in Tunisia and Egypt would engulf Syria. He was wrong. In March of that year, a protest began over the torture of ...
Assad's apparent departure brings to a close his 14-year grip on power during a challenging civil war that has torn the country apart. | ITV National News ...
No one had planned it this way, but the regime change in Syria appears to be the consequence of completely unrelated events.
Beginning of civil war in 2011, first years of standoff with ... protests in Arab countries that began with protests in Tunisia in December 2010), mass demonstrations in support of the demand ...
In 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi self-immolated in protest of his treatment ... to be the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and set the stage for the Arab Spring. In 2011, North Korean leader Kim ...