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This still image from video obtained September 11, 2012, courtesy of the Site Intelligence Group shows Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in a video speaking from an undisclosed location. (AFP Photo)

Al-Qaeda’s Indian franchise not a response to ISIS: expert

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Sep 12, 2014 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Al-Qaeda’s announcement of the establishment of a new franchise in the Indian subcontinent is not a response to the challenge posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an expert in Islamist fundamentalist groups has said. In comments...

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US President Barack Obama speaks during a primetime address to the nation from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Pool /Saul Loeb)

Opinion: Face up to ISIS but Don’t Ignore Iran

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 12, 2014 | Opinion

It would be naive to think that the priorities of the current US administration are congruent with the worries of the people of the Middle East. However, realism dictates that regional states must accept that left to their own devices they are unable to change the...

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A supporter of Iranian religious hardliners raises up a poster reading in Persian ” Please keep your Islamic dress code to be recognised as a real Muslim woman” as she takes part in a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayer in Tehran on May 16, 2014. (AFP Photo)

Iran: Radical group gears up to begin morality patrols

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 12, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A radical Iranian pressure group has reaffirmed its vow to patrol Tehran’s streets to enforce Islamic norms in the face of disapproval from government officials, in what may become the next showdown between President Hassan Rouhani and...