Intifadas

America's 21st century Middle East policy can be neatly described in one word: disaster. Conflicts, terrorism, state failure, an Arab Spring that became an Islamist winter - all have resulted from multiple attempts to remake the Middle East. Even genuine attempts at peace have backfired. Take President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.

A brief clash between protesters and police in Syntagma Square early Saturday afternoon resulted in 33 people being detained, police said. 

Greek police clashed with protesters after a pro-Palestinian march to the Israeli embassy in Athens on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses and police officials said.

More than 2,500 people marched through the streets of Athens to the embassy carrying Palestinian flags and chanting "Free Palestine!"

Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Athens Tuesday, when some among the 1,000-odd crowd attempted to scale the gates of the Egyptian embassy, at the capital's Syntagma Square.

Riot police used batons, tear gas and flashbang grenades to push back the protesters and the formed a line in front of the embassy.

Columbia University, the epicenter of pro-Palestinian protests that have upended college campuses across the United States, began suspending student demonstrators on Monday after they defied an ultimatum to disperse.

Police clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.S. military cadets.

The violent protest occurred in the central Greek city of Larissa ahead of a concert by members of the West Point Glee Club, a musical group of the U.S. Military Academy which is currently on tour in Greece.

A student protest in Athens against a bill that would allow the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece for the first time has turned violent.

Around 8,000 people are estimated to be participating in the city center protest, while police have so far made nine arrests.

Police stormed the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece on Monday morning to put an end to a two-week-long sit-in protest. 

Approximately 20 individuals were evacuated from inside the building during the operation, which began at 5 a.m. 

No resistance was encountered during the operation, and no arrests were conducted. 

Tension erupted outside the Maximos Mansion late on Thursday when around 20 students staged a protest against the draft law on non-state universities. 

The students unfurled banners as police swiftly pushed them towards the opposite sidewalk. Following a brief confrontation, police dispersed the students from the area.

Tensions broke out between police and university students protesting in main Syntagma square in Athens on Thursday.

Protesters were demonstrating against government plans to legislate the establishment of private universities in the country.

A group of students clashed with police, which replied with the use of teargas.