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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters inspect an rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher as they take control of the area, on the outskirts of Mosul on February 6, 2015. (Reuters/Ari Jalal)

Kurdish Peshmerga surround Mosul from three sides: official

by Dalshad Abdullah | Feb 12, 2015 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces have surrounded Mosul from three sides ahead of a planned operation to liberate the city from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) control, a senior Peshmerga official said. In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat, Peshmerga...

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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is seen during the filming of an interview with the BBC, in Damascus February 9, 2015. Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about a U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Tuesday […]

Opinion: Assad is no better than Saddam

by Hussein Shobokshi | Feb 12, 2015 | Opinion

The Syrian people are being oppressed, humiliated and killed by a criminal and tyrannical regime. This is the only view that any rational, objective and just person can have of the Syrian revolution, and this is the right view. Syria is being ruled by a criminal gang...

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A migrant who survived a shipwreck is helped as he arrives with others at the Lampedusa harbor on February 11, 2015. (Reuters/Antonio Parrinello)

UN: At least 300 migrants missing in new sea tragedy

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 11, 2015 | World

Rome, AP—Some 300 migrants who tried to cross the frigid Mediterranean in open, rubber boats, were reported missing Wednesday by survivors as the UN refugee agency and other aid groups sharply criticized the new EU rescue operation as insufficient and costing lives....

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A handout picture taken on February 10, 2015 and released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (3-R) and visiting Russian President Vladamir Putin (3-L) watching on as officials sign a statement of memorandum following a press conference in Cairo, Egypt. (AFP Photo/Egyptian Presidency/HO)

Russia signs deal to build new Egyptian nuclear plant

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Feb 11, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Russia will help Egypt build its first nuclear power plant, the leaders of both countries said on Tuesday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up a two-day official visit to the Egyptian capital. At a joint press conference, Egyptian...

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Yemeni security forces secure the entrance of the US embassy in Sana’a, on February 11, 2015. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Houthis seize key province in central Yemen

by Hamdan Al-Rahbi | Feb 11, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fighters from Yemen’s powerful Houthi group seized control of the provincial capital of the Al-Bayda governorate on Tuesday without any resistance from government forces, local sources and eyewitnesses told Asharq Al-Awsat. Eyewitnesses said...