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Bahrain's foreign minister said the decision to use anti-riot police to dislodge protesters in the capital had pulled the country back from the "brink of sectarian abyss." Police used tear gas and clubs as they stormed Pearl Square. Troops and tanks then appeared on the streets for the first time since the uprising began.

Steve Inskeep talks with Marc Lynch, an associate professor at George Washington University and contributor to ForeignPolicy.com, about the sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Bahrain.

Witnesses said the assault on a makeshift opposition camp in the capital came early Thursday with little warning. Anti-riot police used tear gas and clubs as they stormed Pearl Square.

At least two people are dead as riot police in the Bahraini capital, Manama, used tear and clubs early Thursday to try to regain control of a main square occupied by anti-government protesters. Meanwhile, unrest continued to spread across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Police reportedly fired tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of anti-government protesters in Libya's second-largest city on Wednesday as unrest continued to spread across the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Following the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, protests have ignited across the Arab world. But while regimes may have reason to be nervous, it's still not certain that more leaders will fall.

Bahrain's security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time.

The military leaders controlling Egypt after President Hosni Mubarak's ouster have pledged to turn over power in a matter of months. As they work with civilians toward transition to a democratically elected government, trust is key; the army has vested interests and has shown no fondness for democracy in the past.

Islamist parties are certain to play a role in the future politics of Egypt, Tunisia and other countries in the Arab world experiencing unrest. But analysts say they will not come to dominate these nations the way they did in Iran.

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