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A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on February 10, 2015 shows Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (R) giving an interview to the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen in Damascus. (AFP Photo/HO/SANA)

Syria gets information on US-led air strikes via Iraq: Assad

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about the US-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC...

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Servicemen of Ukrainian volunteers battalion ‘Azov’ train at a base in Mariupol, Ukraine, on February 9, 2015. (EPA/Ivan Boberskyy)

Ukrainian army reports gains in eastern Ukraine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2015 | World

Donetsk, AP—Government forces on Tuesday reported a counter-offensive in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, while the rebels said they were successful in surrounding Ukrainian troops at a strategic railway junction. The intense fighting, which the UN says has killed more...

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Opinion: We need Arab boots on the ground to defeat ISIS

by Tariq Alhomayed | Feb 10, 2015 | Opinion

After the burning alive of Jordanian fighter pilot Moaz Al-Kasasbeh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a strong response—international in nature, but Arab at its core—is needed, not as retaliation for this abominable crime, but to finally defeat ISIS and...

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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: Boycott ISIS’s Videos

by Diana Moukalled | Feb 10, 2015 | Opinion

So the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) scored another gory “cinematic hit” last week when it broadcast footage of its murder of Jordanian pilot Moaz Al-Kasasbeh. But the broadcasting of this video also engendered in us some strange, uncomfortable feelings: that...