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An image from a propaganda video by Al-Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader of the ISIS Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on July 5, 2014 (AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA)


Splits emerging within ISIS in Iraq: sources

Splits emerging within ISIS in Iraq: sources

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Cracks are appearing within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) amid reports of divisions and confrontation between foreign fighters and local tribesmen in the Iraqi provinces of Nineveh, Salah Al-Din and Anbar. The divisions have emerged...
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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)


Opinion: Fighting ISIS is the duty of all Arabs

Opinion: Fighting ISIS is the duty of all Arabs

When Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990, an international coalition was formed to expel his army. The coalition was advocated and embraced by Saudi Arabia who effectively participated in it both militarily and politically and in terms of security while...
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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)


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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

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...
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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

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...