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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE (R), shaking hands with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L), at the aAl-Mushrif Palace, Abu Dhabi, on January 18, 2015. (EPA/OFFICE OF EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT )

Opinion: The GCC, Egypt, and the Brotherhood Media Machine

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Feb 23, 2015 | Opinion

During this critical stage there are many who are angered by any closeness or cooperation between Egypt and the Gulf states. There are also those who stand by the Muslim Brotherhood and its “accessories after the fact,” the “revolutionary set” among Egypt’s youth....

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This file photo shows Saudi and foreign citizens gathering around the devastated Al-Hamra expatriate housing compound that was hit by a suicide car bombing on May 12, 2003, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo)

Iran coordinating with Al-Qaeda since 2007 to target US interests in Kingdom, Dubai: sources

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Feb 23, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran has been coordinating with Al-Qaeda and its affiliates since 2007 with the aim of carrying out terror attacks against US targets in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, informed sources have told Asharq Al-Awsat. Speaking under condition of anonymity,...

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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...