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US General John Campbell (C), commander of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), folds the flag of the ISAF during the change of mission ceremony in Kabul, December 28, 2014. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani)

US, NATO mark end of mission to Afghanistan

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2014 | World

Kabul, AP—The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that...

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Hadi Bahra, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, the country’s main political opposition group, speaks during a press conference following his meeting with the Arab League’s Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby at the league’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Syrian opposition not received any formal peace initiatives: Coalition president

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Dec 28, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As Damascus said it was ready to participate in Russian-backed “preliminary consultations” in Moscow aimed at restarting peace talks next year to end the Syrian conflict, opposition Syrian National Coalition President Hadi Al-Bahra said that...

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Stanley Cohen, one of the defense lawyers for Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law and former spokesman of Al-Qaeda Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, speaks to media in front of the federal courthouse in Manhattan on September 23, 2014. (AFP/Yana Paskova)

Stanley Cohen: US government will target me until the day I die

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Dec 28, 2014 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Controversial US lawyer Stanley Cohen has found himself in the international headlines on a number of occasions this year. He defended Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, Sheikh Suleiman Abu Ghaith; he defended himself in another courtroom on...

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This undated file photo shows Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar, the head of Yemen’s powerful Ahmar tribe. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Houthis seek tribal arbitration in dispute with Ahmar tribe

by Arafat Madabish | Dec 28, 2014 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Houthi movement has asked for tribal arbitration in its dispute with the country’s powerful Al-Ahmar tribe, after Houthi fighters carried out raids of homes and property belonging to the head of the tribe and other prominent members...

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An Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320-200 passenger prepares to land at Sukarno-Hatta airport in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta in this January 30, 2013 file picture. (Reuters/Enny Nuraheni/files)

AirAsia flight carrying 162 people goes missing in Southeast Asia: officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2014 | World

Jakarta, Reuters—Indonesia’s air force was searching for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that went missing on Sunday after the pilots asked to change course to avoid bad weather during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore. Indonesia...