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Kurdish Peshmerga forces inspect a destroyed building belonging to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on the outskirts of Tel Alwad, west of the city of Kirkuk, on March 9, 2015. (Reuters/Ako Rasheed)

Kurdish forces attack ISIS west of Kirkuk

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 9, 2015 | Middle East

Erbil, Reuters—Kurdish forces drove Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants back from the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Monday, in an advance backed by heavy airstrikes from the US-led coalition fighting the extremist group. Speaking to a local...

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In this May 21, 2014 file picture, Gen. Khalifa Haftar speaks during a news conference at a sports club in Abyar, east of Benghazi, Libya. (Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori)

Libyan general sworn as top commander as his planes hit Tripoli airport

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 9, 2015 | Middle East

Tripoli and Cairo, Reuters—Warplanes from Libya’s internationally recognized government on Monday attacked the last functioning airport in Tripoli, the capital controlled by a rival administration, officials said. Extending a series of tit-for-tat strikes, the...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (far L), European Union adviser Catherine Ashton (L), Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yussef bin Alawi (R) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (far R), in Muscat on November 9, 2014. (AP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM, POOL)

Opinion: Iran, the Gulf, and the Nuclear Agreement

by Salman Al-dossary | Mar 9, 2015 | Opinion

Thank God for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent moves to “reassure” us in the Arab Gulf states regarding the expected deal between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) on Tehran’s controversial nuclear...

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Yemen’s Defense Minister Gen. Mahmoud Al-Subaihi (R) sits with governor of the southern province of Lahj, Ahmed Al-Majidi, in Subaihi’s house in the Al-Subaiha area of Lahj, to which he arrived from the capital Sana’a on March 8, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

Yemen defense minister escapes Sana’a to Aden after being held by Houthis

by Arafat Madabish | Mar 9, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Defense Minister Gen. Mahmoud Al-Subaihi has fled the Yemeni capital Sana’a, currently under the control of the Shi’ite Houthi movement, to the southern port city of Aden. The news is another blow for the Houthis after Yemeni...

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Three men, from the left: Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, Shagid Gubashev and Khamzad Bakhaev suspected of involvement in the killing of Boris Nemtsov sit in a court room in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 8, 2015. (AP)

Two charged with Nemtsov killing include former Chechen policeman

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 9, 2015 | World

Moscow, Reuters—Russian authorities said on Sunday they had charged two men over the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov and said one of them was a former senior policeman from the mainly Muslim region of Chechnya who had confessed to involvement in the crime. The...