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Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is seen at the High Court in Pretoria on September 12, 2014 where he was found guilty of culpable homicide. (AFP Photo/Alon Skuy)
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Haider Al-Abadi attends the parliament session to submit his government at the parliament headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 8, 2014. (Reuters/Thaier Al-Sudani)
Opinion: Iraq’s new cabinet is a club of egos
The good news is that Iraqis have succeeded in forming a new government in a much shorter time than they have been used to since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The bad news is that the new government, headed by Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, looks more like a...Caption:
This still image from video obtained September 11, 2012, courtesy of the Site Intelligence Group shows Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in a video speaking from an undisclosed location. (AFP Photo)
Al-Qaeda’s Indian franchise not a response to ISIS: expert
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Al-Qaeda’s announcement of the establishment of a new franchise in the Indian subcontinent is not a response to the challenge posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an expert in Islamist fundamentalist groups has said. In comments...Caption:
US President Barack Obama speaks during a primetime address to the nation from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Pool /Saul Loeb)
Opinion: Face up to ISIS but Don’t Ignore Iran
It would be naive to think that the priorities of the current US administration are congruent with the worries of the people of the Middle East. However, realism dictates that regional states must accept that left to their own devices they are unable to change the...Caption:
A supporter of Iranian religious hardliners raises up a poster reading in Persian ” Please keep your Islamic dress code to be recognised as a real Muslim woman” as she takes part in a demonstration after the weekly Friday prayer in Tehran on May 16, 2014. (AFP Photo)