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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position in the Gwer district, 40 kilometres south of Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, on September 18, 2014.
by Dalshad Abdullah | Sep 20, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces are preparing to launch a broad offensive against militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Peshmerga forces will seek to recapture the northern city of Mosul—held by the Islamist group since August—as...
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Egyptian-born cleric Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi talks during a news conference in Algiers March 28, 2007. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)
by Tariq Alhomayed | Sep 20, 2014 | Opinion
Dr. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi criticized the US-led fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) earlier this week. In a tweet, he said: “I oppose ISIS in its ideological path and its methods of action, but I will never agree that the country to fight it should be...
