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In this Sunday, August 24, 2014 file photo, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Ahmed Saad)

Iran rules out cooperating with US in Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 18, 2014 | Middle East

New York, AP—Iran’s foreign minister on Wednesday ruled out cooperating with the United States in helping Iraq fight Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants and warned that the terrorist group poses a much broader global threat that needs new thinking...

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Voters leave a polling station in Edinburgh, Scotland, on September 18, 2014, during a referendum on Scotland’s independence. (AFP Photo/Leon Neal)

Scots vote in independence referendum to seal the United Kingdom’s fate

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 18, 2014 | World

Edinburgh, Reuters—Scots began voting in an independence referendum on Thursday that will decide the fate of the United Kingdom, after opinion polls showed hundreds of thousands of them were still agonizing over whether to stay with the 307-year union or back...

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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Khazer, near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 8, 2014. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

ISIS no threat to Erbil: Peshmerga official

by Dalshad Abdullah | Sep 18, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters currently pose no threat to the Kurdish capital Erbil, as Peshmerga forces continue to drive Islamist fighters out of Iraq’s semi-autonomous region, a Peshmerga official said. Speaking to Asharq...

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Still from Rock the Casbah (Laïla Marrakchi, 2013)

Rock the Casbah review: Dysfunction meets humor at a Moroccan elite family funeral

by Amy Assad | Sep 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Laïla Marrakchi’s Rock the Casbah opens with a narration from the film’s family patriarch, Hassan Ben Amor, played by screen legend Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago). Dressed in white and with a mischievous grin, the successful...

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The Union Flag and Saltire—the national flag of Scotland—are flown above Horseguards in central London, the United Kingdom, on September 17, 2014, ahead of the referendum on Scotland’s independence. (AFP Photo/Carl Court)

Opinion: Torn States and Changing Identities

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 18, 2014 | Opinion

Scotland’s pro-independence camp did not need to form armed groups or practice ritual murders to declare their intention to secede from the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, they pushed forward their secessionist scheme, which would separate the two most populous nations...