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President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington DC on Nov. 5, 2014 (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama strikes upbeat tone after a gloomy election

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 6, 2014 | World

Washington, AP—For anyone expecting post-election contrition at the White House or vows to change course after disastrous mid-term elections for Democrats, President Barack Obama had one message: Think again. A day after Democrats lost control of the Senate and...

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In this image released by Radius TWC, Edward Snowden (L) appears with Glenn Greenwald in a scene from ‘Citizenfour,’ a documentary that intimately captures Snowden during his leak of NSA documents. (AP Photo/Radius TWC)

Review: Citizenfour

by Amy Assad | Nov 6, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A slim, but innocuous-looking man with ashen skin and dark circles under his eyes studies himself in the mirror of his Hong Kong hotel room, where he has been hiding out for over a week. The TV screen by him is playing the day’s leading world...

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A U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet fighter jet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria on ISIS on September 23, 2014 (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Shawn Nickel, File)

Opinion: US Middle East Policy after the Midterms

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Nov 6, 2014 | Opinion

Following President Barack Obama’s refusal to take any action against the escalation of the brutal war the Syrian regime is conducting against its own people, observers in the Arab world have begun to re-evaluate Washington’s Middle East policies. These policies are...

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Masrour Barzani, head of the Kurdish region’s National Security Council, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, July 19, 2014. (Reuters)

Peshmerga morale is “high” in fight against ISIS: Kurdish security official

by Dalshad Abdullah | Nov 6, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces continue to advance and recapture territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the north of the country, Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council Masrour Barzani told Asharq Al-Awsat. “The...

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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)

Opinion: Learning the Lessons of Tunisia’s Election

by Diana Moukalled | Nov 6, 2014 | Opinion

Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda Party admitted defeat in the recent parliamentary elections. It’s true that the group hasn’t lost much—it continues to hold a one-third share of the seats in parliament—but it does means that the the group has certainly failed to secure new...