Last month a court in the region ruled that soldiers had tortured and beaten to death a Muslim preacher.
But in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement, the most formidable rebel group in the region, ruled out negotiations with the government in light of the genocide charges.
An avuncular, white-haired grandee of the Texas borderland, Sanders is one of the most influential figures in a region ruled by mercantile interests.
The celebration took place in a region ruled by a far-right governor who has called the Slovak National Uprising a putsch and the partisans bandits.
In a region ruled by sultans and kings, the prospect of a democratic uprising in Bahrain has been deeply unsettling to America's oil-producing allies in the Persian Gulf, especially because the majority of Bahrain's citizens are Shiites.
The town was once the seat of the imamate (region ruled by a Muslim religious leader) of ʿUmar Tal, whose jihad (holy war) led to the creation of the Tukulor empire (1850 93) in the Niger River valley.
In interviews this week on the streets of Cairo, people often voiced a position common in a region ruled by authoritarian leaders: "He is the father of the Egyptian people," said Muhammad Abdel Fatah, 50, a taxi driver.
If the heart was light, thus indicating a person's comparative goodness, the soul was allowed to go to the blessed region ruled by Osiris, god of the dead.
The House passed a bill, similar to a Senate measure, to enact a holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A1 Ruling on Race and Searches A federal appeals court in California, noting demographic changes in the region, ruled that the Border Patrol should not have considered race when it stopped three Mexicans carrying bags of marijuana, a gun and ammunition near the border.
In places such as nearby Douma and other parts of the eastern Ghouta region – ruled by what the authorities call "terrorists" and by the UN, "armed opposition groups" (AOGs) – schools do operate, and the staff are still paid by the central government, on paper at least.
