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Egyptian couple celebrate their wedding day. (Ahmad Abdel Mageed/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Kurdish sniper looks down on the Syrian city of Kobani on January 30, 2015, a few days after ISIS withdrew from the city.
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Kobani: A Looming Humanitarian Disaster
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—After four months of incessant fighting, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has finally been driven out of Kobani, but with much of the Syrian border town in ruins and its population dispersed, the fight for the future of the city has...Caption:
Egyptian riot policemen stand guard behind barbed wire outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (AFP Photo/ Khaled Desouki)
Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda planned attacks in Egypt: report
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood appealed to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri to send 3,000 Islamist volunteers to fight government forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian security report claims. The report which Asharq Al-Awsat...Caption:
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, during a ceremony to honor the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Champion team, the University of Connecticut Huskies. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Opinion: Rewriting the History of Aiding Terrorism
In 1992 I made my first visit to North Carolina, and Chapel Hill clearly stood out as its most charming town. I loved that little American “college town” which wasn’t much different from Europe’s beautiful university cities like Oxford, Leiden, Tubingen and Leuven...Caption:
(FILES) – A file picture taken on February 14, 2005 shows a man fleeing the site of an explosion in Beirut in which Lebanese Premier Rafic Hariri was killed. A decade after former prime minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, hopes that the fallout from his death would free Lebanon from Syria’s influence have been dashed […]