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Georgia US Senate Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn rings a doorbell while canvassing a neighborhood for voter support with her daughter on November 3, 2014, in Decatur, United States. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Republicans expect gains, but many races close on election day

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 4, 2014 | World

Washington, Reuters—Republicans are poised to make major gains and possibly recapture control of the US Senate on Tuesday in midterm elections that could serve as a public referendum on President Barack Obama’s job performance. Millions of Americans will cast...

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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: Sex, Slavery, and ISIS

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 4, 2014 | Opinion

A recent video from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in which a group of fighters brag as they discuss enslaving women and selling them as if they were cattle begs once again the question about the group’s barbarism, from beheadings to using children as...