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In this photo provided by Egypt’s state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, right, meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the presidential palace in Cairo Egypt, on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Ahmed Foad)


Egypt calls for open-ended Gaza cease-fire

Egypt calls for open-ended Gaza cease-fire

Cairo, AP—Egypt on Saturday called for an open-ended cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, urging Israel and Hamas to return to indirect talks after seven weeks of fighting punctuated by a number of failed truce attempts. The call from the foreign ministry came shortly after...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB)


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An Iraqi man holds up a portrait of Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a demonstration in the central Shiite Muslim shrine city of Najaf on June 14, 2014. (AFP/Haider Hamdani)


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Saleh Al-Mutlaq, an Iraqi Sunni lawmaker who was disqualified from running in March’s parliamentary elections by the Justice and Accountability Commission for alleged links to Saddam Hussain’s outlawed Ba’ath Party, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad, Iraq on February 12, 2010. (Reuters/Thaier al-Sudani)


Saleh Al-Mutlaq: Iraq is going through hell

Saleh Al-Mutlaq: Iraq is going through hell

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saleh Al-Mutlaq, one of Iraq’s most prominent Sunni politicians, is a controversial figure. The deputy prime minister described outgoing prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki as a “dictator” and “worse than Saddam Hussein”...