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US President Barack Obama speaks during the State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)

Obama sets progressive agenda in State of the Union speech

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 21, 2015 | World

Washington, AP—President Barack Obama, undaunted by the new Republican majority in Congress, unveiled an ambitious progressive agenda in his State of the Union speech, proposing tax increases for the wealthiest Americans coupled with more breaks for the...

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Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Hezbollah member Mohammed Issa, who was killed in an airstrike in Syria that killed six members of the Lebanese militant group and an Iranian general, during his funeral procession, in the southern village of Arab Salim, Lebanon, on January 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Opinion: How did we end up cheering for Israel?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jan 21, 2015 | Opinion

Many have welcomed with cheers the sudden Israeli strike on Sunday that killed six Hezbollah members and a general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who, for some reason, were secretly present in Syria’s Quneitra region. The cheering for this act on...

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The head of Lebanon’s militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah gives a speech during a massive Shiite Muslim commemoration in southern Beirut on November 14, 2013. (AFP)

Opinion: Nasrallah’s Next Move

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jan 21, 2015 | Opinion

A few days ago, Hassan Nasrallah vowed that the axis of resistance—Iran, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and Hezbollah—will not stand idly by in the face of Israeli strikes against Assad’s regime. What is Nasrallah’s position now after the painful and...

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File photo of Egypt’s People’s Assembly taken on Sunday, Jan. 22, (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Sisi’s call for national election coalition “impossible”: party leader

by Mohamed Abdu Hassanein | Jan 21, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—There is little chance of Egypt’s diverse political parties being able to respond to a presidential call to put aside their differences and take part in the forthcoming democratic elections as part of a unified electoral list, the head of...