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Turkish President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) throws flowers to his supporters during a congress of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for the election of a new prime minister in Ankara, Turkey, August 27, 2014. (EPA/Stringer)
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A gas flame is seen in the desert near the Khurais oilfield, about 99 miles (160 kilometers) from Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, on June 23, 2008. (Reuters/Ali Jarekji)
US still needs Saudi oil: Embassy spokesman
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi oil exports to the US will not be affected by the latter’s recent push to increase domestic oil production, the official spokesman for the US Embassy in Riyadh told Asharq Al-Awsat. W. Johann Schmonsees denied that the recent boom in the...Caption:
Followers of the Shiite Houthi movement sit inside a tent installed at a sit-in square in Sanaa, Yemen, 26 August 2014. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)
Yemeni president calls on Houthis to dismantle protest camps
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the latest development in the escalating dispute between the Yemeni government and the Houthi movement occupying sites across Sana’a, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi responded to the movement’s demands with some of his own on...Caption:
This undated file photo shows Saudi security forces marching during a parade in preparation for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Mohammed Salem/Courtesy Reuters)
Saudi Arabia arrests members of terror recruitment cell
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi authorities announced on Tuesday the arrest of eight people on suspicion of recruiting young people to join terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq. The eight Saudis were arrested in the city of Tameer, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of...Caption:
A Jordanian army convoy travels toward the eastern border of Jordan with Iraq near the Karameh border crossing in Jordan on June 25, 2014. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)