Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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Michel Aoun. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Lebanese politicians still split over Presidency

by Paula Astih | Jul 27, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Michel Aoun, one of the contenders for the Lebanese Presidency, offered to withdraw from the race on Saturday, in return for changes to Lebanon’s electoral system. Aoun, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, said he was willing to withdraw...

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Nineveh Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Mosul inhabitants forming anti-ISIS groups: governor

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 27, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Local militias are forming to battle militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in and around Mosul, according to the region’s governor. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday, Nineveh provincial governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi...

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Smoke rises after Israeli tanks shell the Shejaia neighborhood during a military operation in the east of Gaza City, on July 27, 2014. (EPA/Mohammed Saber)

Israel resumes offensive after Gaza rocket fire

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—A humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Sunday after a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants was met with fierce Israeli shelling, in a fresh setback to efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire. Israeli tanks and...

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Workers take a rest on the deck of the Costa Concordia during its final voyage to Genoa, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Italy, on July 24, 2014. (EPA/Alessandro Di Meo)

Costa Concordia nears end of final voyage to scrap yard

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2014 | World

Genoa, Reuters—The wreck of the Costa Concordia arrived on Sunday off the northern Italian city of Genoa where it will be broken up for scrap, two-and-a-half years after the cruise liner ran aground and sank near the Tuscan island of Giglio, killing 32 people. After a...

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Image of Khaled Sharrouf posing in Syria. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Australia’s Muslims shocked by ISIS’s Australian jihadists

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Jul 27, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Australia’s Muslim community is shocked by the number of Australians who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a well-known Sydney Muslim community leader said after an image of an Australian national posing with the severed...