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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, delivers a speech during an annual rally commemorating anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, at the Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Opinion: A Revolution Decayed

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 16, 2015 | Opinion

Every year since 1980, Iranians have held an annual celebration of Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution. However, with the passage of time the number of Iranians who reject the revolution and believe it was the worst historical setback in the history of their country...

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Men mourn during the funeral of prominent Iraqi Sunni tribal leader Sheikh Qassem Al-Janabi and his son, Mohammad, who were killed in an attack on their convoy in Baghdad, on February 14, 2015. (REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily)

Iraqi government must control volunteer militias: deputy PM

by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Feb 15, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi government must do more to rein in the actions of volunteer militias throughout the country, Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Al-Mutlaq told Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday, following the abduction and killing of a prominent Sunni...

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Yemenis drive past the exterior the Saudi Arabia’s embassy complex in Sana’a after it closed following security concerns on February 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Gulf states call on UN to end Yemen crisis

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Feb 15, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has called on the UN to take immediate action to end the crisis currently gripping Yemen, at the same time that two Gulf states joined the growing list of countries pulling their diplomats out of...

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A picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency on February 12, 2015. shows Syria’s General Fahd Jassem Al-Freij (R) shaking hands with a soldier as he visits a military unit at an undisclosed location in southern Syria. (AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA)

Scores dead in intensified fighting in southern Syria: monitor

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 15, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Intense clashes in southern Syria have killed scores of pro-government and insurgent fighters in the past week, a group monitoring Syria’s war said on Sunday, forecasting even fiercer violence as the weather clears. Syria’s army and allied...

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Ukrainian tanks near Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, on February 14, 2015. (REUTERS/Gleb Garanich)

Guns mostly fall silent in east Ukraine as ceasefire takes hold

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 15, 2015 | World

Donetsk and Artemivsk, Reuters—Guns fell abruptly silent at midnight across much of eastern Ukraine in line with a ceasefire agreement, although periodic shooting near a front-line railway junction showed that the truce was fragile. Reuters journalists in Donetsk, the...