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Haider Al-Abadi (L), and Iraq’s parliament speaker, Salim Al-Jabouri, attend a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq on July 15, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq president names new PM but Maliki hangs tough

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 11, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Iraq’s president named a new prime minister to replace Nuri Al-Maliki on Monday, urging him to form a broad government that can stem communal bloodshed, but it was unclear whether Maliki would bow to US and Iranian pressure to step aside. A...

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Shoppers browse weapons and ammunition at an arms market in the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq, Erbil, on Sunday, August 10, 2014. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Arms trade flourishes in Erbil as fears of ISIS grow

by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 11, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—With the insurgents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) getting closer to the borders of Iraqi Kurdistan, the number of volunteers who want to fight alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga has seen a sharp increase. Solider need weapons, and...

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Lawrence Wright. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)

Lawrence Wright: Radicalism will increase without the Muslim Brotherhood

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Aug 11, 2014 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A graduate of the American University of Cairo, Texas-based author Lawrence Wright shot to international fame in 2006 with his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which was widely hailed as a masterful...

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Islamist Hamas movement chief Khaled Mishal is seen on a control screen as he answers AFP journalists’ questions during an interview in the Qatari capital Doha, on August 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Al-Watan Doha /Karim Jaafar)

Opinion: No Longer an Arab–Israeli Conflict

by Mamoun Fandy | Aug 11, 2014 | Opinion

The war in Gaza is the second stage of a process of change regarding the nature of what used to be called “the Arab–Israeli conflict.” The first stage was the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, in which Iran, a non-Arab state, fought Israel in...

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a news conference at his office in Jerusalem on August 6, 2014. (Reuters/Jim Hollander/Pool)

Opinion: Joining Israel’s Blame Game

by Salman Al-dossary | Aug 11, 2014 | Opinion

The anger felt by many Saudis was expressed by Prince Turki Al-Faisal in an article, ‘The Denial of Saudi Efforts toward the Helpless,’ published in this newspaper last Wednesday, and in which he wrote about “the outrageous attempts by the Israeli government and its...