"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain once said—and nowhere does it feel more apt than today, as recent upheavals in South Asia echo the Arab Spring that shook North Africa ...

Soldiers shed their uniforms and slip away into the crowds. Families, jubilant and tearful, comb the dungeons of the old regime in search of loved ones, or traces of them. Bedraggled young men in ...

Until now, the Arab Spring has felt like a wash in domestic political terms. Conservatives have charged Obama with “losing” Egypt to the Islamists after mishandling the region’s politics. Just last ...

Mummy with shrieking expression may have "died screaming from agony" Scientists used CT scans and other testing to examine whether the mummy had any pathological abnormalities and assess potential ...

A pivotal moment in modern history occurred in 2011 when Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, ...

As Tunisia marks the 15th anniversary of the revolution that provoked the Arab Spring, RFI spoke to exiled former leader Moncef Marzouki, the first to be democratically elected after the fall of ...

Long before Libya’s National Museum reopened in 2025, a covert operation in 2011 quietly safeguarded its most precious artefacts from destruction and theft ...