Photo Gallery Struggle for Democracy Continues in Arab World
More than half a year after the beginning of the Arab Revolution, pro-democracy movements in several countries appear to have stalled. Will the trial of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, which began on Aug. 3, give a new impetus to the protests?
Mubarak, lying on a hospital bed, was pushed into a cage that had been built in the Cairo courtroom. Almost the entire Middle East watched the trial unfold on television.
Mubarak was ousted as Egyptian president in February 2011. Here, anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square in January.
In Libya, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, has cleverly sown discord among the rebels by claiming in an interview that the regime was negotiating with the Islamists to offer them a share of power.
The rebels in the west of Libya have gained control of the region surrounding the Nafusa Mountains and are only 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Tripoli. But they have no plans to advance on the capital, a move that would have little prospect of success. Here, rebel fighters carry out an exercise near Nalut in western Libya.
A protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad in front of the Syrian Embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman. Assad has brutally cracked down on the uprising in Syria.
Activists have uploaded footage of government violence to YouTube. This image reportedly shows Syrians in the city of Hama taking cover as the military launch an attack on the city.
