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Bahraini Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Bin Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Khalifa attends the consultative meeting of interior ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in the Bahraini capital Manama on April 23, 2013. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)


Bahrain warns Qatar over citizenship dispute

Bahrain warns Qatar over citizenship dispute

Manama, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bahrain warned on Wednesday it was ready to take serious counter-measures against Qatar over Doha’s alleged policy of offering Qatari citizenship to Bahraini nationals, in a development that will further heat up already tense relations between...
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Houthi protesters perform Friday prayers during a funeral procession of fellow protesters who were killed in recent clashes with Yemeni police in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)


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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

Iran rules out cooperating with US in Iraq

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)


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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

ISIS no threat to Erbil: Peshmerga official

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...