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demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq in June 2014. (AP)
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CAGE research director Asim Qureshi talks during a press conference held by the CAGE human rights charity in London, on February 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
‘Jihadi John’ resembles man raised in UK, Muslim group says
London, AP—A British-accented militant who has appeared in beheading videos released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in Syria bears strong similarities to a man who grew up in London, a Muslim lobbying group said Thursday. Mohammed Emwazi has been...Caption:
A general view shows a church in the Assyrian village of Abu Tina, which was recently captured by Islamic State fighters, February 25, 2015. (Reuters)
274 Assyrian Christian captives awaiting ISIS trial
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hundreds of Assyrian Christians abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a series of dawn raids on their villages in Syria’s northeast Hasakah province are being held in the ISIS stronghold of Al-Shaddadeh on the Abdulaziz...Caption:
Secretary General of the GCC Abdullatif Al-Zayani (R) speaks to media after meeting with Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (L) in the Presidential Palace in Aden, Yemen, on February 25, 2015. (EPA/Stringer)
Saudi, Qatar move embassies to Aden: GCC source
Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Wednesday resumed their work in Aden, the Red Sea port city where Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi fled after escaping house arrest in Sana’a imposed by the powerful Houthi...Caption:
Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (left) talks to King of Jordan Abdullah II in Riyadh on 26 February, 2015. (SPA)