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Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak attends a Middle East peace talks event in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC on September 1, 2010. (Reuters/Jason Reed)

Mubarak resisted US pressure to give up the Sinai: The Secret Files

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Aug 24, 2014 | Features

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Towards the end of his tenure, ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resisted pressures from Washington to cede Egyptian territory in the Sinai Peninsula to help create a Palestinian state, former senior members of Mubarak’s ruling party...

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Border guards march during Ukraine’s Independence Day military parade, in the centre of Kiev August 24, 2014. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)

Defiant Ukraine turns on military display as war rumbles on in the east

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 24, 2014 | World

Kiev, Reuters—Armored vehicles and soldiers paraded in Kiev on Sunday in a defiant national day display of military power that Ukrainian President Petro Poroskenko said was being mobilized for an historic war of independence from Russia. Soldiers, some due to head...

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Samir Geagea: Lebanon would be ISIS’s graveyard

by Thair Abbas | Aug 24, 2014 | Interviews

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed that he would not renounce his presidential ambitions, but added that he would not oppose parliamentary elections taking place before a new president is elected. Lebanese lawmakers have been unable...

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An image made available by Jihadist media outlet Welayat Raqa on July 25, 2014, shows allegedly shows members of the IS (Islamic state) militant group raising their black and white flag over a building belonging to a Syrian army base in the northern rebel-held Syrian city of Raqa. Islamic State fighters have seized Division 17 […]

Opinion: All roads lead to Syria

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 24, 2014 | Opinion

The execution of US journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has refocused international attention on the Syrian crisis and the debate now is about the necessity of dealing with this. As for the US administration, it finds itself occupying...

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Iraq’s prime minister of eight years, Nuri Al-Maliki, announces he is relinquishing his post to Haider Al-Abadi (2nd L) in Baghdad on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Iraqi Government)

Opinion: Maliki’s Bad Advice

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 24, 2014 | Opinion

Nuri Al-Maliki, who had described the appointment of Haider Al-Abadi as Iraq’s prime minister-designate as a “conspiracy,” is today offering advice on how to save the country from a crisis that he created. Maliki, the prime minister who was pulled out like a bad...