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A protester holds up a poster of Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi during an anti-Houthi demonstration in Sana’a, Yemen, on February 21, 2015. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Hadi escapes house arrest to Aden, says still president of Yemen

by Arafat Madabish | Feb 22, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who resigned as president of the country last month and has been under a month-long house arrest in Sana’a, on Saturday escaped to the south of the country and appeared to rescind his resignation. Hadi, who had...

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Libya’s Gen. Khalifa Haftar (Front-C) speaks during a televised press conference in eastern Libya, on February 21, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Fight against extremist groups in Libya a “holy war”: Haftar

by Khalid Mahmoud | Feb 22, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—The fight against extremist groups in Libya represents a “holy war,” the army general leading military operations against jihadist groups in the country said on Saturday, in response to a deadly suicide bomb attack in the east of the country...

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US President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism on February 18, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Opinion: Fighting terrorism requires deeds not words

by Tariq Alhomayed | Feb 22, 2015 | Opinion

In a recent speech, US President Barack Obama spoke about the need to confront extremism and terrorism, while defending Islam and calling for the need to correct misconceptions about it. For all its truth and nobility, what Obama said amounts to nothing more than a...

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The front pages of the Sunday edition of Iranian newspapers, published with pictures of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a hopeful for the upcoming presidential election, are seen on Sunday, May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Publisher who defied Khomeini remembered in London

by Amir Taheri | Feb 22, 2015 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The sudden death of Parviz Isfahani, an Iranian publisher and editor, brought together more than 300 Iranian “cultural workers” in exile for a memorial service in London with speeches denouncing the current wave of repression in Iran. Isfahani...

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Turkish tanks return to Turkey from the tomb of Suleyman Shah, Kobani, Syria, on February 21, 2015. (EPA/Mursel Coban/Depo Photos)

Turkish military enters Syria to evacuate soldiers, relocate tomb

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 22, 2015 | Middle East

Ankara, Reuters—Turkish forces swept into Syria overnight to rescue about 40 soldiers who had been surrounded for months by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants while guarding the tomb of a revered Turkish figure. The operation, which involved tanks,...