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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...

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Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi speaks to a crowd as he leads Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on February 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Opinion: How Islamism has damaged Islam

by Amal Mousa | Mar 9, 2015 | Opinion

It is true that Islam is too big to be damaged by the attacks that have recently been launched against it and which in reality are more the concern of those who instigated them than the world’s more than 1 billion Muslims. At the same time, however, much of these...

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Iranian journalist and editor Elahe Boghrat.

Iranian female journalist nominated for Courage Award

by Amir Taheri | Mar 9, 2015 | Media

London, Asharq Alawsat—Elahe Boghrat, one of Iran’s leading female journalists, has been nominated for the 2015 Courage in Journalism Award. The annual award has been granted by the International Women’s media Foundation since 1990 and is designed to encourage female...