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Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah talks to his Lebanese and Yemeni supporters through a giant screen during a speech against Saudi-led operations in Yemen, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, on April 17, 2015. (Reuters/Aziz Taher)

Opinion: Hassan Nasrallah Khamenei

by Salman Al-dossary | Apr 20, 2015 | Opinion

For the third time since the start of Operation Decisive Storm, Hassan Nasrallah has taken it upon himself to publicly attack, lambast and insult Saudi Arabia. The manner in which he has delivered these rants, and the intentions behind them, have remained constant...

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Kurdish Syrian girls are pictured among destroyed buildings in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, also known as Ain Al-Arab, on March 22, 2015. (AFP Photo/Yasin Akgul)

Opinion: From Aleppo to Yarmouk, All is “Unreasonable”

by Diana Moukalled | Apr 20, 2015 | Opinion

A few days ago, members of the UN Security Council watched a video showing a Syrian doctor attempting to rescue children who had allegedly been the victims of a chlorine gas attack by Syrian government forces. After viewing the video, the United States’ ambassador to...

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Iraqi security troops from Baghdad head to Ramadi on the orders of Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi to reinforce troops there in their fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, on April 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Street battles engulf Ramadi as Iraqi forces inflict “heavy losses” on ISIS

by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Apr 20, 2015 | Middle East

Ramadi, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fierce street battles erupted in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday between government forces backed by local tribal volunteer groups and fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to Iraqi security officials. Maj. Gen....

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A man carrying a weapon talks on his mobile phone near a building damaged by an air strike on a nearby Scud missile base in Yemen’s capital Sanaa April 20, 2015. (Reuters)

Saudi-led airstrikes target Houthi weapons caches in Sana’a

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 20, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, AP—Saudi-led airstrikes targeted weapons caches in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday in an intensification of the four-week campaign against Houthi rebels in the country. The assault was the most powerful seen in the city since the Saudi-led air...

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Surviving immigrants lie on the deck of the Italian coastguard ship “Bruno Gregoretti” in Senglea, in Valletta’s Grand Harbor, Malta, on April 20, 2015. (Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi)

EU meets on migrant crisis as shipwreck corpses brought ashore

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 20, 2015 | World

Valletta and Catania, Reuters—European Union foreign ministers gathered in Luxembourg on Monday under pressure to produce more than words as bodies were brought ashore in Malta among hundreds feared drowned in the latest Mediterranean migrant tragedy. The death toll...