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Tunisians wave their national flag as they queue outside a polling station at a school in Tunis to vote in the country’s first post-revolution parliamentary election on October 26, 2014.(AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID)

Tunisians vote for new parliament, hope for full democracy

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 26, 2014 | Middle East

Tunis, Reuters—Tunisians voted on Sunday in parliamentary elections that bring full democracy finally within their reach, four years after their revolution cast out autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. The moderate Islamist party Ennahda and rival secular alliance Nidaa...

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Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against ISIS militants in Zumar on October 25, 2014. (REUTERS/Ari Jalal)

Iraqi forces claim to make more progress against ISIS

by Dalshad Abdullah | Oct 26, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi government and Kurdish forces claimed to be making progress against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Saturday and Sunday, retaking territory in northern Iraq from the group with the backing of Shi’ite militias and US...

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Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko (R) greets local residents as he visits a polling station on the day of a parliamentary election in the town of Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on October 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Mikhail Palinchak/Handout via Reuters)

Ukraine votes in poll likely to strengthen president’s hand

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 26, 2014 | World

Kiev, Reuters—Ukrainians voted on Sunday in an election that is likely to install a pro-Western parliament and strengthen President Petro Poroshenko’s mandate to end separatist conflict in the east, but may fuel tension with Russia. Voting started on a cold but...

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File photo of Libyan Speaker of Parliament Aqeela Saleh. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

New Libyan Defense Minister to be appointed within days, says parliamentary speaker

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Oct 26, 2014 | Middle East

Tobruk, Asharq Al-Awsat—Libyan Speaker of Parliament Aqeela Saleh said that a new Minister of Defense is set to be appointed within the coming few days, but refused to divulge the name of the ministerial candidate that the Tobruk-based parliament is set to discuss....

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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)

Opinion: ISIS cannot be ‘contained’

by Abdul Moneim Said | Oct 26, 2014 | Opinion

By the time this article goes to print, the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani, or Ain Al-Arab as it is known in Arabic, may have reached its logical conclusion with the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) campaign to seize it. The fate of...