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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron urges lawmakers to back a motion authorizing UK air strikes on ISIS in Iraq on September 26, 2014. (Reuters/UK Parliament)

Britain to join US-led air strikes on ISIS in Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 26, 2014 | World

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Members of UK parliament voted in favor of Britain’s involvement in air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq on Friday. The motion passed in the House of Commons does not authorize air strikes in Syria. Downing...

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam Al-Ahmad (L) of the Fatah movement and Hamas’s exiled deputy leader Musa Abu-Marzuq meet at a hotel in Cairo, Egypt, on September 24, 2014. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Hamas, Fatah clinch breakthrough Gaza deal

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Sep 26, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Rival Palestinian groups, Fatah and Hamas, reached an agreement on Thursday to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian national unity government, representatives of both factions have announced. After two days of talks...

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A US Navy F-18E Super Hornet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes on ISIS and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/US Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

US-led strikes hit ISIS oil sites for second day

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 26, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, AP—US-led coalition warplanes bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in eastern Syria on Friday, taking aim for a second consecutive day at a key source of financing that has...

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Houthi rebels chant slogans at the compound of the army’s First Armored Division, after they took it over, in Sana’a, Yemen, on September 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen to name new prime minister: presidential advisor

by Arafat Madabish | Sep 26, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Talks are underway in Yemen as all political factions seek to form a national unity government under the terms of a UN-brokered agreement to end a month-long crisis between the central government and the Houthis, a senior presidential source...

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David Cameron leaves Downing Street for the House of Commons to win approval from parliament to join US-led air strikes on ISIS in Iraq on September 26, 2014. (Reuters/Neil Hall)

British PM Cameron urges parliament to back “years” of air strikes against ISIS in Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 26, 2014 | World

London, Reuters—British Prime Minister David Cameron urged parliament on Friday to vote to approve “years” of air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Iraq, saying the group was guilty of “staggering” brutality...