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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)
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Saudi Arabia seeking the destruction of ISIS: official
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Western media claims that Saudi Arabia is connected—in any way, shape or form—to the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) organization is a “malicious falsehood and should not be repeated,” a Saudi spokesperson has said. In a...Caption:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (AFP PHOTO/SAUL LOEB)
Germany’s Merkel says wants to find ‘path to peace’ over Ukraine crisis
Kiev, Reuters—German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew in to the Ukrainian capital on Saturday and said she wanted to help end a crisis over Ukraine which flared again after Russia sent a convoy of trucks into Ukraine without Kiev’s permission. Many of the trucks...Caption:
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)
Iraq PM-designate facing tough task despite Sistani’s call
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric called on the country’s political players to overcome their sectarian and ethnic differences and work together to form a new government, with Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi facing the increasingly difficult...Caption:
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)