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Nigerians call on their government to rescue the girls taken from a secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria on October 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Olamikan Gbemiga File)


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A worker checks pipes and valves at the Amaal oil field in eastern Libya, on October 7, 2011. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)


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Thick smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from the Turkish-Syrian border, on October 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)


Activists: Syria airstrikes toll over 500

Activists: Syria airstrikes toll over 500

Beirut, AP—US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria have killed more than 500 people, mainly Islamic militants, since they began last month, activists said Thursday, as warplanes targeted an oil field in the eastern Deir Ezzor province near Iraq. The Britain-based Syrian...
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Shi’ite Houthi rebels man a checkpoint in Yareem town of Yemen’s central province of Ibb on October 22, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)


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People gesturing as smoke rises in the sky following an attack by jet aircraft on the Syrian town of Kobani, on October 22, 2014. (AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC)


Erbil approves Peshmerga fighters for Kobani

Erbil approves Peshmerga fighters for Kobani

Erbil and Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The parliament of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq voted on Wednesday to send Kurdish Peshmerga forces to the Syrian town of Kobani, where Syrian–Kurdish fighters have been battling for control of the border...