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ISIS militants with a captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, in June 2014 (AP Photo)

Iraqi prime minister shakes up military high-command

by Hamza Mustafa | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Prime Minster Haider Al-Abadi launched a major re-organization of Iraq’s top military leadership on Tuesday, in a step many observers say was aimed at defusing growing public anger over Iraqi military defeats at the hands of radical...

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Armed Yemeni Shi’ite Houthi anti-government rebels shout slogans as they man a checkpoint erected after the Houthi group seized northern districts of the capital Sana’a on September 21, 2014. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)

Opinion: Treason or War?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Sep 24, 2014 | Opinion

The fall of Yemen’s state institutions into the hands of the Houthis without any significant resistance is a remarkable development. More interestingly, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Monday that a verbal altercation had occurred between the Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh...

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A group of Palestinians prepare to throw roses in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City on September 18, 2014 in mourning over the loss of fellow Palestinians who had boarded a boat to Europe that sank off Malta last week. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Gaza’s Youth, Lost at Sea

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2014 | Features

Gaza and Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Residents of the Gaza Strip are anxious about the whereabouts of their young relatives who fled Gaza earlier this month in the hope of finding a better life elsewhere. Their disappearance follows the tragic news that a large number...

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Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh talks during an interview with Reuters in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, Yemen, on May 21, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Opinion: An Inside Job

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 24, 2014 | Opinion

Yemen’s capital Sana’a has been both attacked from the outside and stabbed in the back by insiders. The prime minister and the interior minister staged a coup against the state in favor of the assailants, while Houthis shelled the city from all sides. Sana’a suffered...

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Left to right: Late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (R) walks with his cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, Gaddaf Al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi (C) walks with former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (R) in Cairo, Egypt, in the early 1970s. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Gaddaf Al-Dam Files: Soup and Green Tea with Sadat

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Sep 23, 2014 | Features

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As one of Muammar Gaddafi’s closest aides, Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam—also Gaddafi’s cousin—was often sent by the late dictator to put out fires abroad caused by Gaddafi’s own, often idiosyncratic, foreign policies. However, on one occasion in 1977,...