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In this February 6, 2011 file photo, a Muslim holding the Koran (top-L) and a Coptic Christian holding a cross are carried through opposition supporters in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters/Dylan Martinez)

Opinion: Us and Them

by Diana Moukalled | Apr 14, 2015 | Opinion

“We have suffered more than you, and you deserve what is happening to you!” This sentence pretty much sums up the general mood in more than one country in the Middle East when it comes to sectarian and ethnic conflicts, which have exploded in recent years and threaten...

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Fighters loyal to Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi stand by a tank they used in fighting against Houthi fighters in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on April 11, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

Houthis on back foot in Aden: Saudi Defense Ministry

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Apr 14, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Saudi-led coalition targeting the Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi movement in Yemen has fulfilled most of its military objectives, with coalition airstrikes along with ground resistance by Yemeni volunteer groups succeeding in forcing...

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Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah after his release in Sana’a on March 16, 2015. (AFP Photo/STR)

Opinion: A Political Decisive Storm

by Salman Al-dossary | Apr 14, 2015 | Opinion

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi took his time to appoint a vice president. Before the appointment on Sunday, legitimacy was found in just one person: the president. Yemen’s legitimacy has been under threat; with an unprecedented power vacuum, no...

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Iraqi soldiers train near the town of Jurf Al-Sakhar, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2015. (EPA/Khider Abbas)

Iraqi forces launch counter-attack against ISIS in Anbar

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 14, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Iraqi security forces launched a counter-attack on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the western province of Anbar on Monday, seeking to reverse an early setback in a new campaign to recapture the country’s Sunni heartland. Prime...

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Former Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough were handed lengthy sentences for their role in a 2007 shooting in Iraq, on April 13, 2015. (AP Photo)

Ex-guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 14, 2015 | World

Washington, AP—A federal judge sentenced one former Blackwater security guard to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others. The carnage in Baghdad’s Nisoor Square...