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Iranian military officers saluting Iran’s supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on February 8, 2015. (EPA/SUPREME LEADER OFFICIAL WEBSITE/HANDOUT)

Iran’s Khamenei says could accept fair nuclear compromise

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 8, 2015 | Middle East

Dubai and Munich, Reuters—Iran’s supreme leader said on Sunday he could accept a compromise in nuclear talks and gave his strongest defense yet of President Hassan Rouhani’s decision to negotiate with the West, a policy opposed by powerful hardliners at...

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Greece’s new leftist finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (R) talks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) in the parliament in Athens on February 6, 2015. (REUTERS/Panayiotis Tzamaros/FOSPHOTOS)

Greek leader to reject EU’s austerity, lay out leftist programme

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 8, 2015 | World

Athens, Reuters—New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will lay out his radical left-wing government’s policies in a speech later on Sunday, firmly rejecting any more austerity forced on his debt-strapped country by its euro zone partners. In his first major...

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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, addresses a meeting of university professors on July 2, 2014.
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Opinion: To Defeat ISIS, Check Iran and Israel

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Feb 8, 2015 | Opinion

The latest crime committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—and I do not expect it to be the last—barely adds anything new to the criminal record of this kind of terrorism, which brings together the worst manifestations of the crimes committed by the...

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Fighters from the Fajr Libya (Libya Dawn) militia hold a position during clashes with forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognized government as they fight for the control of Al-Aqrabiyah area, west of the capital Tripoli, on February 4, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD TURKIA)

Libya faces bankruptcy if low oil prices, political instability continue

by Khalid Mahmoud | Feb 8, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Libya faces bankruptcy if low global oil prices, falling Libyan production, and the unstable situation in the country continue, Western powers warned on Saturday. In a joint statement, the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom,...

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Relatives of ISIS captive Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasaesbeh place a poster of him in front of their new gathering headquarters in Amman January 30, 2015. (Reuters/Muhammad Hamed)

Opinion: ISIS has Jordan in its sights

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 8, 2015 | Opinion

The Syrian crisis is even more protracted and dangerous for Jordan than the burning to death of Jordanian pilot Moaz Al-Kasasbeh would suggest. This hideous crime was designed to stir Arab and international uproar in general, and provoke the Jordanians in particular....