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Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China’s Uighur minority, at his home in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese court jails Uighur scholar for life for separatism

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | World

Beijing, Reuters—A Chinese court on Tuesday jailed for life the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, a sentence that rights advocates said sent a clear signal that the government is determined to suppress dissent. Economics...

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File photo of the Saudi flag. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP)

Saudi Arabia headed for “new renaissance”: Crown Prince

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia is heading for a “new renaissance” thanks to the farsighted vision of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz and the structural reforms he has put in place during the previous years, Crown Prince Salman Bin...

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This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, January 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

US, Arab partners launch first strikes on ISIS in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2014 | Middle East

Washington and Beirut, Reuters—The United States launched air and missile strikes with Arab allies in Syria for the first time on Tuesday, killing dozens of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters and members of a separate Al-Qaeda-linked group, and widening...

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Somali women carry weapons during a demonstration organized by the Islamist Al-Shabab group which is fighting the Somali government in Mogadishu, July 5, 2010. (AFP Photo/Abdurashid Abikar)

Opinion: ISIS’s Western Women

by Diana Moukalled | Sep 23, 2014 | Opinion

She was probably smiling for the camera behind her niqab (full face veil), this young medical student from Britain who calls herself “Bint Osama” on her Twitter profile, as she carried in her hand a severed head. We do not know to whom this head belonged, nor do we...