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Opinion: Saudi Arabia’s new faces

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 10, 2014 | Opinion

In the largest ever Saudi cabinet reshuffle, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz issued a royal order appointing nine new ministers earlier this week. This represents a massive change of the collective face of government’s leadership....

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People hold posters of Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein at a hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad)

Palestinian minister dies after confrontation with Israeli police

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 10, 2014 | Middle East

Turmusiya, West Bank, Reuters—A Palestinian minister died on Wednesday shortly after an Israeli border policeman shoved and grabbed him by the throat during a protest in the West Bank, an incident Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described as barbaric. Ziad Abu...

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, then chief of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Suleimani, attends a meeting of the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Baghdad cannot stop Suleimani from entering Iraq: MP

by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 10, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani is able to freely enter and exit Iraq despite being under an international travel ban, a member of Iraq’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee alleged on...

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An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube on June 12, 2014, allegedly shows Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants taking part in a military parade in Mosul, Iraq. (AFP Photo)

ISIS executes its top Mosul official: Kurdish sources

by Dalshad Abdullah | Dec 10, 2014 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has executed several of its own militants, including the group’s top official in Mosul, on charges of espionage, Kurdish sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday. Speaking exclusively to Asharq Al-Awsat,...

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A Shi’ite Houthi militant in military uniform mans a checkpoint in Sana’a October 15, 2014. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Yemen Al-Hudaydah governor says Houthi demands “illegal”

by Arafat Madabish | Dec 10, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat— The governor of Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah province, Sakhr Al-Wajih, slammed the country’s Houthi insurgents in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday, accusing them of breaching their agreement with the Yemeni government and...