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A screen grab taken on May 12, 2014, from a video released by militant group Boko Haram, shows girls wearing the full-length hijab and praying, in an undisclosed rural location. (AFP Photo/Boko Haram)


Nigeria militants take kidnapped schoolgirl town

Nigeria militants take kidnapped schoolgirl town

Maiduguri, Nigeria, AP—Islamic extremists in Nigeria have seized Chibok, forcing thousands of residents to flee the northeastern town from which the insurgents kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in April, a local official said on Friday. The insurgents rode into town...
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Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) meets the emir of Qatar, Tamim Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani in Jeddah.
(AFP Photo/HO/SPA)


GCC summit prospects “hazy”: official

GCC summit prospects “hazy”: official

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Despite efforts to end the Gulf diplomatic crisis, the prospects of holding the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) annual summit this December in Doha look “hazy,” a senior Gulf official told Asharq Al-Awsat. A GCC General Secretariat official,...
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Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was dropped from the GPC’s party leadership on November 9, 2014.
(AP Photo/Yemen Defense Ministry, File)


Media ID: 55338524
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In a still image from a video posted on a militant website in early July, ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi purportedly delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)


Message from ISIS leader emerges

Message from ISIS leader emerges

Beirut, AP—In a recording released days after he was reported to be wounded in an airstrike, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group said the US-led coalition’s campaign had failed and that the US would eventually have to send ground...
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Tourists look down on a cordoned off bridge near the Brisbane Convention and Exhibitions Centre where world leaders will meet for the G20 summit on November 15-16, 2014. (EPA/Lukas Coch)