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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)
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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
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,...Caption:
Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi was dropped from the GPC’s party leadership on November 9, 2014.
(AP Photo/Yemen Defense Ministry, File)
Rifts deepen within Yemen’s ruling General People’s Congress party
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Discord intensified within Yemen’s ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) after senior members announced their rejection of the recent decision to sack President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi from his post as the GPC’s secretary-general, Asharq...Caption:
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
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...Caption:
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)