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Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talks to reporters during a press conference at the Yemeni embassy in Saudi Arabia on March 30, 2015 in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

Yemen talks to begin in Riyadh in coming weeks: Yemen FM

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Apr 15, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s legitimate government will seek to restart the political process and launch a long-awaited dialogue on the country’s future in Riyadh within the next few weeks, Yemen Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said. In comments to Asharq...

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Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 25th death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, in Tehran June 4, 2014. (REUTERS/leader.ir/Handout via Reuters)

Opinion: The Truth about “America’s Project”

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 15, 2015 | Opinion

With every day that passes, Operation Decisive Storm proves just how necessary, and hence, justifiable it is. The conspirators inside Yemen have made huge investments over the past few years in funding sectarian infrastructures, organizations, logistics, as well as...

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Syrian Civil Defense workers evacuate children from a building following a reported airstrike by government forces in a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo on April 14, 2015. (AFP Photo/Karam Al-Masri)

UN envoy to start talks in May on new Syria initiative

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 15, 2015 | Middle East

United Nations, AP—The UN special envoy to Syria will begin consulting with key players to try to relaunch political negotiations aimed at ending the country’s civil war now in its fifth year, the United Nations said Tuesday. In late March, Secretary-General Ban...

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A man drives his taxi past a Cultural Center in Havana, Cuba, on April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cubans hail removal from US list of state terrorism sponsors

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 15, 2015 | World

Havana, AP—Cuban officials and ordinary citizens alike hailed the island’s removal from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying the move by President Barack Obama heals a decades-old insult to national pride and clears the way to swiftly restore...

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The Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin abstains from a vote in the United Nations Security Council attempting to halt the escalating conflict in Yemen in New York April 14, 2015. (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

UN imposes arms embargo targeting Yemen’s Houthis; Russia abstains

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 15, 2015 | Middle East

United Nations, Reuters—The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday imposed an arms embargo targeting the Iran-allied Houthi rebels who rule most of Yemen and blacklisted the son of the country’s former president and a Houthi leader after council veto-power...