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A supporter holds a portrait of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto during a protest near the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, August 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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A picture taken on August 10, 2014 shows a chimney at an oil field in Sheikhan, northeast of the city of Mosul in northern Iraq and near the Kurdish city of Dohuk, an area where Kurdish peshmerga forces are fighting to stop the advance of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
Baghdad warns buyers of “ISIS oil”
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq has warned buyers of crude oil that any unauthorized oil purchases made from its territory could be used to fund activities by the extremist militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In a statement on Wednesday, Iraq’s...Caption:
Army and police officers loyal to the Shi’ite Houthi group march during a demonstration in Yemen’s capital Sanaa June 4, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)
Yemeni Houthis call for government resignation as deadline approaches
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi called on Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi to join a national unity government on Wednesday, as thousands of Houthis gathered on the outskirts of the capital Sana’a calling for the government to...Caption:
Palestinians watch the funeral of three children from the Al-Rifi family who medics said were killed in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City August 21, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)
Palestinian negotiator says Gaza talks “temporarily suspended”
Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Palestinian negotiator said that the indirect Cairo-mediated truce negotiations with Israel could resume shortly, despite the collapse of the previous ceasefire and the exchange of rocket and missile fire between Israel and the Gaza Strip...Caption:
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, march in a demonstration at the Iraqi–Turkish border crossing in Zakho district of the Dahuk Governorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, on August 17, 2014. (Reuters/Youssef Boudlal)