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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...

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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...