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Fuad Masoum, the new president of Iraq and a veteran Kurdish politician, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad on July 24, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / ALI AL-SAADI)

Fuad Masoum: My decision was constitutional

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 17, 2014 | Interviews

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The recent struggle to form a new Iraqi government has refocused attention on the country’s presidency, and its new occupant, the veteran Kurdish leader Fuad Masoum, elected to the job by the Iraqi parliament at the end of July. Though largely...

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File photo of the UN Security Council voting on a draft resolution taken in New York on August 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Saudi Arabia committed to UN resolution against ISIS, Al-Nusra

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Aug 17, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia committed to implementing a UN Security Resolution targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front on Friday, after the measure blacklisted two Saudi nationals. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN,...

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A Peshmerga soldier looks through binoculars from a position as he looks across a canal toward Islamist Jihadist positions on August 17, 2014, south of the oil hub city of Kirkuk. (AFP PHOTO/MARWAN IBRAHIM)

Kurdish fighters, US warplanes in push to retake Mosul dam

by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 17, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces, supported by US airstrikes, mounted an attack on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters on Saturday, in a bid to retake Mosul dam, a high-ranking Kurdish Peshmerga officer told Asharq Al-Awsat. Brig. Gen....

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An Ukrainian soldier holds a weapon at a checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debalcevo, in Ukraine, 16 August 2014.

Ukraine says rebels shoot down fighter jet

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 17, 2014 | World

Kiev, Ukraine, AP—Separatists have shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane amid fighting between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian government forces in the eastern part of the country, a Ukrainian military spokesman said Sunday. Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky said that the plane...

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Fouad Masoum, Iraq’s newly elected president, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad, July 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)

Iraq wants strong, lasting relationship with Saudi Arabia, says president

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 17, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq wants a strong and durable relationship with Saudi Arabia, Iraqi President Fuad Masoum told Asharq Al-Awsat, in his first major press interview since becoming Iraq’s head of state on July 24. Masoum said he appreciated the regional and...