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This file photo taken on March 2, 2014 shows Chinese police investigators inspecting the scene of an attack at the railway station in Kunming, in southwest China’s Yunnan province. (AFP Photo/Files)

More violence in China’s Xinjiang after deadly attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 30, 2014 | World

Beijing, Reuters—Western tourists saw a body lying in a pool of blood in a major city in China’s violence-prone Xinjiang province on Wednesday, as security forces flooded in after the government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead elsewhere in...

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Members of the Iraqi security forces take up positions along a road during a patrol in the town of Jurf Al-Sakhar, south of Baghdad, on July 16, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

ISIS, Baghdad fight over strategic town southwest of capital

by Hamza Mustafa | Jul 30, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi tribal leaders have called on authorities to pay more attention to winning the “hearts and minds” of citizens in order to combat the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters towards the capital Baghdad. The calls came...

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Refugee children from Mosul stand at a camp 30 miles west of the Kurdistan regional capital Erbil on Monday, July 28, 2014. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

An Agonizing Eid

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jul 30, 2014 | Features

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—While Western and international media continue to shine a spotlight on the mass exodus of Mosul’s Christians at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), many Muslims from Mosul—including members of minorities and Sunnis...

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Al-Shafi’i Mosque was built in the 13th century AD. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Jeddah’s Al-Shafi’i Mosque: The Story of a Thousand-Year-Old Minaret

by Sa'ed Al-Abyadh | Jul 30, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat—In 647 CE the Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan selected Jeddah as a major seaport for the holy city of Mecca and a gateway for trade with neighboring states. Consisting of four districts, Jeddah is surrounded by a wall that was constructed to shield the...

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Smoke rises from the Tuffah neighborhood after Israeli air strikes in the east of Gaza City, July 29, 2014. (EPA/Mohammed Saber)

Opinion: A Carousel of Crises

by Ali Ibrahim | Jul 30, 2014 | Opinion

Crises in the region have been proliferating and competing with one another since 2011, so much so that global media attention is changing on a weekly basis. While one crisis jumps to the forefront of the news, another retreats a little—though this does not...