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Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Khalifa attends the consultative meeting of interior ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in the Bahraini capital Manama on April 23, 2013. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)

Debate: The Gulf states will find it hard to join the Iranian nuclear talks

by Dr. Antoine Safer | Jul 21, 2014 | Debate

Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) have been marked by years of wrangling, give-and-take, and mutual accusations of indirect subterfuge. Iran’s nuclear program will likely remain a point of...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks with Kuwaiti officials during the second joint high committee meeting between Kuwait and Iran at the Foreign Ministry in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on December 1, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Debate: The Gulf states could participate in the Iranian nuclear talks

by Dr. Zuhair Al-Harthi | Jul 21, 2014 | Debate

Historically, conflicts between the Safavids and the Ottomans—the peak of which was seen in Basra—have created a sea of distrust and suspicion between the two sides that has only deepened over the centuries, easing at times and flaring up at others. Today, the two...

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File photo of Arabic-language newspapers taken on July 26, 2009.
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Mark Gregory Hambley: Coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict is biased on both sides

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Jul 21, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thanks to the presence of a number of pan-Arab newspapers and media outlets (including Asharq Al-Awsat) in London, for the last decade the US Embassy in the city has played host to one of the State Department’s Regional Media Hubs which aims to...

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An armed man looks at charred debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine, on July 20, 2014.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Rebels to give MH17 black boxes to aviation group

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2014 | World

Torez, Ukraine, AP—Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday. Alexander Borodai also said the bodies recovered from the crash site...

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People inspect the damages at the site of a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo on July 20, 2014. (AFP Photo/AMC/Zein Al-Rifai)

More than 700 killed in Syria as ISIS tightens grip on east

by Paula Astih | Jul 20, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than 700 people were killed in Syria over the course of Thursday and Friday, in what activists say were the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date. The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), Rami Abdul...