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President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani speaks during a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague (unseen) in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, on June 27, 2014. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Iraqis who support ISIS will be barred from liberated areas: Barzani

by Dalshad Abdullah | Mar 16, 2015 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—President of The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Massoud Barzani on Sunday told a meeting of leaders of Sunni tribes based west of Mosul that citizens who backed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will not be allowed back into...

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Members of pro-Russian self-defense units hold Russian and Crimean flags during a meeting to celebrate the first anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in central Simferopol, on March 16, 2015. (Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)

Russia starts nationwide show of force

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2015 | World

Moscow, Reuters—More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin’s biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows. President...

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Surrounded by young conference organizers, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi speaks during the final day of Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) that has injected billions of dollars’ worth of aid and investment into his country, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Sisi rounds off final day of investment conference

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2015 | Middle East

Sharm El-Sheikh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday wrapped up the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) which garnered total investments of 175.2 billion US dollars in three days, but said his country needed at least another...

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Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah sits with his aides at his residence in the Tihamah region of the Yermeni capital Sana’a, on March 15, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Yemen: Houthis release PM, cabinet members

by Arafat Madabish | Mar 16, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Houthi movement released Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and all cabinet members on Monday, ending an almost two-month house arrest imposed on the ministers by the Shi’ite movement now in de facto control of Yemen, a Yemeni government...

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi greets delegates as he walks to the podium before speaking on the final day of a major economic conference that has injected billions of dollars’ worth of aid and investment in his country, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on March 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Opinion: Egypt has won and its enemies have lost

by Salman Al-dossary | Mar 16, 2015 | Opinion

Even the most optimistic of Egyptian officials could not have expected the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) to succeed the way it has. In one fell swoop Egypt has now officially exited this period of political isolation, delivering a stunning blow to the...