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In this file photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Girls tried to commit suicide: Former ISIS captive

by Dalshad Abdullah | Dec 28, 2014 | Features

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following an Amnesty International report that women and girls of Iraq’s Yazidi minority forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have committed suicide or tried to, Asharq Al-Awsat spoke with a Yazidi girl who...

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Younes Makhioun (R), the head of the Al-Nour Party, listens to party spokesman Nader Bakkar during a news conference about the constitution in Cairo on December 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

Salafist Nour Party sets sights on quarter of Egypt’s parliamentary seats: official

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Dec 28, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party aims to secure 25 percent of seats at the forthcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for early 2015, a senior party member told Asharq Al-Awsat. “The Nour Party is seeking to secure 25 percent of the seats of the...

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Jordanians gather outside a mosque during Friday prayers, following a demonstration against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and demanding the freedom of Jordanian pilot Muadh Al-Kasasbeh, in downtown Amman on December 26, 2014. (AFP Photos.)

Opinion: Jordan’s ISIS Dilemma

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 28, 2014 | Opinion

War is war, with blood, wounds, captivity, bereavement, anxiety, deception, resolution and reluctance. It has been like that throughout history, from the time of bows and spears to the age of F-16 fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles. We have all heard about the...