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Iraqi officials: ISIS extremists execute 50

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 1, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, AP—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen and women in Iraq’s Anbar province, officials said Saturday, the latest mass killing committed by the group. The shooting happened late Friday in the...

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Yemenis chant slogans as they attend a tribal meeting held by Houthi Shiite rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s Houthis turn up the pressure on Hadi

by Arafat Madabish | Nov 1, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Houthi movement has given embattled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi just 10 days to form a new government, warning that the Shi’ite movement will take unspecified additional “options” if the deadline is not met. Despite granting Hadi a...

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The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket explodes in mid-air during a test flight above the Mojave Desert in California October 31, 2014. (Reuters/Kenneth Brown)

Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes in California

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 1, 2014 | World

Mojave, Reuters—Richard Branson is set to meet his Virgin Galactic space team in California’s Mojave Desert on Saturday following the crash of a passenger spaceship being developed by his company that killed one pilot and seriously injured the other. The...

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File photo of Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr: Arab states must embrace Iraq

by Ma'ad Fayad | Nov 1, 2014 | Interviews

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prominent Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr said that there is more that unites Sunnis and Shi’ites than divides them, calling on all Muslims to stand together against the threat of terrorist and extremist ideology as...

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters gesture atop a military vehicle armed with a heavy infantry weapon as they ride towards the Syrian town of Kobani from the border town of Suruc, in the Turkish southeastern Sanliurfa province, on October 31, 2014. (AFP)

Kurdish Peshmerga forces enter Syria’s Kobani after further air strikes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 1, 2014 | Middle East

Suruc, Turkey and Baghdad, Reuters—A convoy of Iraqi Kurdish forces in Turkey rolled late on Friday across the border into Syria to help Syrian Kurds defend the besieged town of Kobani that has become the focus of a Western-backed war against Islamic State of Iraq and...