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File photo of the UN Security Council voting on a draft resolution taken in New York on August 15, 2014. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri)

Text of Palestinians’ UN Resolution on Statehood

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2014 | Features

Reaffirming its previous resolutions, in particular resolutions 242 (1967); 338 (1973), 1397 (2002), 1515 (2003), 1544 (2004), 1850 (2008), 1860 (2009) and the Madrid Principles, Reiterating its vision of a region where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine,...

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Pakistani schoolchildren look out the doorway of their school, before a special class about the victims killed in the Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on December 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Pakistan: 67 militants killed after school massacre

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2014 | World

Islamabad, AP—Pakistani jets and ground forces killed 67 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people—most of them children—in a school massacre. Meanwhile, a Pakistani...

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Kurdish Peshmerga in Zumar, Iraq, from where they launched their offensive on ISIS on December 18, 2014. (Reuters/Ari Jalal)

Iraqi Kurds liberate besieged Sinjar mountain, freeing hundreds

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2014 | Middle East

Zumar, Iraq, Reuters—Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq’s Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters, a Kurdish leader said on Thursday. “The Peshmerga have managed to...

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A screengrab taken from a video released by the Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) on December 14, 2014, shows Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamedi (R) sitting next to his wife Jawaher bint Ali at an undisclosed location, as they speak to Dubai-based Saudi MBC television, in a programme broadcast. (AFP PHOTO / MBC / HO)

Opinion: Sheikh Ghamdi’s Victory

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 19, 2014 | Opinion

The size of recent stock market losses, a fall in oil prices for the first time in years, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) massacres, terrorist attacks in Riyadh and its suburbs, and football fever have all faded in Saudi Arabia this week, overshadowed by a...

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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at commencement exercises for The University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C., on Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. It marks the Republican leader’s second visit in three months to the state that will host the 2016 presidential primary season’s first contest in the South. (AP Photo/The State, Tracy Glantz)

Opinion: Jeb, Hillary and the Fog of Uncertainty

by Amir Taheri | Dec 19, 2014 | Opinion

By all accounts, the United States is in need of new leadership capable of providing it with some direction in an age of uncertainty. Led by President Barack Obama into a dense fog of incertitude about its place in the world, the US today vacillates between the...