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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters head to the Mosul dam that they recaptured from the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) on August 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Haditha Dam under threat from ISIS, warns official

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 19, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—An official in Iraq’s Anbar province warned that another key dam was under threat from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Monday, and called for US airstrikes on militants to protect it. Falih Al-Issawi, the deputy head of Anbar’s...

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Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, attend the 131th meeting of the council’s, on June 2, 2014 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

Qatar-GCC diplomatic dispute not resolved: source

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 19, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Gulf’s diplomatic crisis over Qatar is ongoing, a high-level Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) diplomat told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday, as a deadline announced last week for Qatar to implement the Doha Agreement is set to expire on...

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Palestinians walk next to the ruins of houses, which witnesses said were destroyed during the Israeli offensive, on the fifth day of ceasefire in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 18, 2014. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

Palestinians and Israelis closer to agreement on Egyptian initiative: sources

by Kifah Ziboun | Aug 19, 2014 | Middle East

Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Palestinian sources in Cairo told Asharq Al-Awsat on Monday that Egypt was continuing to put pressure on both Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to accept a modified version of an Egyptian proposal to end hostilities between the two in Gaza....

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter flashes the sign for victory after re-capturing the village of Tel Asquf from Islamic State (IS) militants on the eastern outskirts of Mosul Dam, near the northern city Mosul, on August 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Obama: Iraq has regained control of Mosul dam

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 19, 2014 | Middle East

Washington, AP—President Barack Obama hailed the recapture of Mosul Dam as a “major step forward” on Monday as a barrage of US airstrikes helped Kurdish and Iraqi forces score the biggest victory of their counteroffensive against the Islamic State of Iraq...

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Christian refugees encamp on the area of archdiocese of Erbil, in Erbil, Iraq, August 16 2014.

Scholars call for Christian safe haven in Iraq

by Amy Assad | Aug 19, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Amid growing concerns about the plight of Iraq’s Christians, a group of leading international scholars of Christian language and culture in the Middle East issued a call for an internationally protected safe haven for Christians in Iraq...