Surf Arab States

Arab States Weekly Review 6th – 12th Aug 2011

International pressure mounted on Syria, where the regime’s security forces moved the focus of their ongoing crackdown from Hama to Deir ez-Zor, a city farther east. Human rights activists say at least 1,800 civilians have been killed in Syria.

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, injured during an attack two months ago, left a hospital in Saudi Arabia but remained in Riyadh. He suffered severe burns when his compound in Sana’a was shelled in June.

The leader of Libya’s rebel movement, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, dismissed his cabinet following the killing of his military chief by a faction from his own side. Rebel troops captured the town of Bir Al-Ghanam, 80km south of Tripoli.