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Large waves buffet the coastline ahead of Cyclone Hudhud making expected landfall in Visakhapatnam, India, on October 11, 2014. (AFP PHOTO)

Cyclone Hudhud hammers India’s eastern seaboard, three dead

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 12, 2014 | World

Visakhapatnam, Reuters—Cyclone Hudhud blasted India’s eastern seaboard on Sunday with gusts of over 120 miles per hour (195 kilometres an hour), uprooting trees, damaging buildings and killing at least three people despite a major evacuation effort. The port...

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An image posted on ISIS’ website in January 2014, shows ISIS fighters marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Opinion: US losing to ISIS in race against time

by Tariq Alhomayed | Oct 12, 2014 | Opinion

During a televised interview on the Charlie Rose Show, former director of the US National Counterterrorism Center Matthew G. Olsen said that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has more than 30,000 fighters, in addition to 15,000 foreign fighters, meaning that...

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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir looks on during a meeting with former South African President and head of African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) Thabo Mbeki (unseen) in Khartoum on September 10, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

Omar Al-Bashir: We cannot allow Shi’ite presence in Sudan

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Oct 12, 2014 | Interviews

Medina, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir was at pains to highlight Khartoum’s ties with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf during his latest visit to the Kingdom, stressing that Sudan does not have any “strategic” ties to Iran. He dubbed...

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Demonstrators chant pro-ISIS slogans as they carry the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul on June 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

Lifting the lid on Iraq’s ex-ISIS tribal fighters

by Ma'ad Fayad | Oct 12, 2014 | Features

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—With few journalists reporting from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) remains a faceless organization; the world knows little about the men behind the black balaclavas. In a rare insight into the...