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File photo of director-general of Oman’s foreign ministry, Badr Bin Hamad Albusaidi. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

GCC dispute over Qatar close to being resolved: Omani official

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 18, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A senior Omani official has said that the inter-Gulf dispute between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain is close to being solved. In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat following a speech to the Anglo-Omani society in...

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Pro-democracy protesters and bystanders watch the police from behind a cordon in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong early on October 18, 2014. (AFP Photo/Ed Jones)

Hong Kong activists regroup; police chief warns safety at risk

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 18, 2014 | World

Hong Kong, Reuters—Hong Kong pro-democracy activists recaptured parts of a core protest zone from police early on Saturday after hours of turmoil that the city’s police chief warned undermined order and jeopardised public safety. Dozens of people were injured in...

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epa04446417 Thousands of pro-secession southern Yemenis hold flags of the former People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen during an anti-unity rally in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, 14 October 2014. Even as Shiite Houthi militias occupy Sana’a and as of 14 October Yemen’s second largest port city of Hodeida reports state thousands of southern […]

Opinion: The End of a Unified Yemen?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 18, 2014 | Opinion

Popular, political and military activity calling for the secession of southern Yemen intensified this week in Aden and Hadramout. The possibility of southern Yemen becoming its own independent state is now closer than at any time before. While unity and division are...

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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters march through the streets of the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on January 2, 2014. (Reuters/Yaser Al-Khodor)

Opinion: ISIS has shifted the state of play across the Middle East

by Osman Mirghani | Oct 18, 2014 | Opinion

The air campaign against the positions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have become a source of ridicule and sarcasm in the US media for its meager results and inefficiency in halting the advance of the group’s fighters. Expensive weapons are being used,...

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Reem and Mohamed on their wedding day. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Displaced Iraqis tie the knot far from home

by Afrah Shawqi | Oct 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The family of Mohamed Aref, a young man from Mosul, did not hesitate to organize their son’s wedding in a school in Baghdad. They had taken shelter in the school together with large groups of internally displaced people who escaped the...