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A relative mourns during the funeral of Rani Abu Tawila, a Palestinian who was killed in an Israeli attack, on July 18, 2014 in Gaza city. Israel warned it could broaden a Gaza ground assault aimed at smashing Hamas’s network of cross-border tunnels, as it stepped up attacks that have killed more than 260 Palestinians. […]

Opinion: Israel’s Media War

by Hussein Shobokshi | Jul 26, 2014 | Opinion

The tragic situation unfolding in Gaza, and Israel’s criminal aggression against Palestinians there, is nothing new. This is just another painful chapter in the sad, repetitive and protracted story of Israeli aggression against Palestine. However, what is new is the...

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Israeli tanks take position inside the Gaza Strip July 25, 2014. A flurry of long-range rocket launches on Friday set off sirens around Israel’s commercial capital of Tel Aviv, where witnesses reported several interceptions by the Iron Dome air defence system. A building was hit in the southern coastal town of Ashkelon but there were […]

Opinion: Understanding the Gaza War

by Osman Mirghani | Jul 26, 2014 | Opinion

We may never understand the contexts that preceded the recent round of the war on Gaza, or the real reasons behind the timing of its eruption. The issue of the kidnapping and killing of the three Israeli teenagers in Hebron—arguably the incident that sparked the...

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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir speaks to the media at a press conference in Juba, South Sudan on Monday, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)

IGAD-mediated talks between South Sudan and rebel movement to resume: official

by Mustafa Sirri | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The South Sudan government has said that its regionally mediated negotiations with the opposition movement will resume at the end of July, after nearly a month-long break. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, South Sudan Information Minister...

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Israeli security officers make their ways past buring tires as at least 10,000 Palestinian protesters marching against Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip clash with Israeli soldiers and border police at the Israeli Qalandiya checkpoint, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on 25 July 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Crunch time for Gaza truce talks as death toll passes 800

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2014 | Middle East

Gaza/Jerusalem, Reuters—US Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional proxies to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, threatening to spread Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed to the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. With Israel and...

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Plaque outside Air Algerie office in Paris. (AFP Photo/Stephane de Sakutin)

Bad weather likely cause of fatal Air Algerie crash: French officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2014 | World

Paris, Reuters—Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed all 116 people on board, French officials said on Friday. Investigators at the scene of the crash in northern Mali concluded the...