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Shi’ite Houthi rebels man a checkpoint in Yareem, a town of Yemen’s central province of Ibb on October 22, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Yemen presidency “frustrated” by Houthi advances: source

by Arafat Madabish | Oct 24, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—As officials consult with the Houthi leadership over forming a new government, Yemen’s presidency is “frustrated” by the Shi’ite militia’s ongoing advance across a number of Yemeni provinces, a source told Asharq Al-Awsat. A source within...

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The entrance to Bellevue Hospital where Doctor Craig Spencer is being treated in an isolation unit. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)

Doctor with Ebola in Manhattan hospital after return from Guinea

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 24, 2014 | World

New York, Reuters—A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York on Friday after testing positive for the deadly virus, becoming the fourth person diagnosed with the disease in the United States and the first in its largest...

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Demonstrators at a rally supporting Kurdistan hold placards protesting against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in front of the White House on August 16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious […]

Opinion: To Defeat ISIS, Save Syria

by Amir Taheri | Oct 24, 2014 | Opinion

Given the media’s focus on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), some “experts” claim that the crisis in Syria, now heading into its fourth year, has become a sideshow. The truth, however, is that Syria remains at the center of the crisis shaking the political...

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Traditional Syrian furniture maker Kamel Al-Khabir. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Breaking Syria’s furniture-makers

by Hisham Adra | Oct 24, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Damascus, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the Syrian crisis drags on into its fourth, agonizing year, the toll it is taking on the country’s cultural heritage is becoming more and more apparent, alongside the terrible human cost of the war for control of the country. In one corner...

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A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on July 16, 2014, shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being sworn in for a new seven-year term, during a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Damascus. (AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA)

Opinion: Will ISIS prolong Assad’s rule?

by Osman Mirghani | Oct 24, 2014 | Opinion

The welcome extended by Syrian state media to the US airstrikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its subsequent remarks about Washington being in one trench with the Syrian government forces may seem a ridiculous and embarrassing joke to Washington....