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The main opposition candidate in Turkey’s presidential election, Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu poses for photos as he casts his vote for Turkey’s presidential election at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 10, 2014. (AFP)

Turks vote in first direct presidential election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 10, 2014 | World

Istanbul, AP—Turks voted Sunday in their first direct presidential election, a watershed event in the country’s 91-year history that could cement Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s position as Turkey’s all-powerful leader. Erdoğan, who has...

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US President Barack Obama delivers a statement before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on August 9, 2014 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN)

Obama says tackling Iraq’s insurgency will take time

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 10, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—President Barack Obama said on Saturday that US air strikes had destroyed arms that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants could have used against Iraqi Kurds, but he warned there was no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to tear Iraq...

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Small child gazing at toys in the market, Kuwait

An Author’s Search for the Kuwait of Old

by Al-Mustafa Najjar | Aug 10, 2014 | Book Reviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For Mai Al-Nakib, a Kuwaiti writer who spent large chunks of her life away from her home country, writing fiction is “a way to open a space to kind of remind myself of the different kind of place Kuwait used to be.” [inset_left]The Hidden Light...

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In this Wednesday July 16, 2014 photo, and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria’s President Bashar Assad is sworn for his third, seven-year term, in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/SANA)

Opinion: Where is Assad on Gaza?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 10, 2014 | Opinion

Bashar Al-Assad’s silence on the Israeli aggression towards the Gaza Strip is striking. Most of the regional leaders who trade on the blood of others, and Assad is one of them, love to exploit the Palestinian cause. As soon as any conflict breaks out, we hear these...

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epa04342765 Israeli soldiers carry their gears as they move to a staging area at an unspecified location near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, 06 August 2014. The Palestinians are considering extending the 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that went into effect on 05 August, a West Bank-based news agency quoted an official […]

Opinion: The Israeli ISIS

by Osman Mirghani | Aug 10, 2014 | Opinion

After two Americans and a French national were reported killed while fighting alongside the Israeli army in Gaza, the news passed as if this was a normal occurrence. This news did not cause any commotion in political and media circles in the West. Western and...