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This July 26, 2011 file photo shows Venezuela’s then-oil minister and current OPEC representative, Rafael Ramírez, talking to the media during a news conference at the headquarters of the state-run oil company PDVSA in Caracas, Venezuela. (Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)

Iran, Venezuela urge oil price support ahead of OPEC meeting

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 15, 2014 | Business

Dubai and Al-Khobar, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—OPEC hawks Iran and Venezuela on Saturday called on fellow crude producers to shore up prices that have plunged more than 30 percent to four-years low ahead of an OPEC meeting later this month. Oil prices have fallen to...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry (R), and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, shake hands during a meeting in Muscat, Oman, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014. Omani Foreign Minister Youssef Bin Alawi and European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton stand at background. (AP Photo/Nicholas Kamm, Pool)

Opinion: Iran’s Hypocrisy Exposed

by Hussein Shobokshi | Nov 15, 2014 | Opinion

The Wall Street Journal has announced it has learned through its informed sources that US President Barack Obama recently sent a “secret” letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding both countries’ cooperation in the fight against terror and...

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Iraq’s army chief, Gen. Babakir Zebari (R), meets with US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Defense Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq, on November 15, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

Top US general in Iraq to assess anti-ISIS campaign

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 15, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, AP—America’s top military leader arrived in Iraq on Saturday on a previously unannounced visit, his first since a US-led coalition began launching airstrikes against the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group. The visit by Army Gen....

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Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, from Brazil, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, speaks to the media during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, November14, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

ISIS committing war crimes, crimes against humanity in Syria: UN

by Heba El Koudsy | Nov 15, 2014 | Middle East

Washington, DC, Asharq Al-Awsat—The authors of a UN report accusing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria called on the international community on Friday to bring the group’s leadership to justice....

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In this still taken from an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) video, an Islamist fighter (C), identified as Abu Muthana Al-Yemeni from Britain, speaks from an unknown location. (Reuters/Reuters TV)

New British strategy to crack down on returning jihadists

by Najlaa Habriri | Nov 15, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The British government is considering new measures to stop suspected British jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq from returning back to the country, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday. Under the new law, suspected fighters, including...