| Analysis: Bound by conflict, the Syrian-Lebanon crisis |
 | TRIPOLI, LEBANON، 25/6/2012 (IRIN) - For more than a generation, the northern Lebanese town of Tripoli has been a divided city, home to most of Lebanon’s Shia Alawi community, but also a stronghold of Sunni conservatism. full report |
| Briefing: The Egyptian revolution undone?* |
 | DUBAI، 25/6/2012 (IRIN) - Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first free Egyptian presidential elections. full report |
| YEMEN: Landmines stall IDP returns in south |
 | ADEN، 27/6/2012 (IRIN) - When Yemen’s Defence Ministry announced in mid-June that militants of the Ansar al-Sharia group, which had controlled the southern governorate of Abyan since May 2011, had been routed, 40-year-old Saleh Salim Abu Khalil decided to go and check on his home in al-Kood District. full report |