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Saudi military spokesman Ahmed Asiri briefs journalists on the Saudi-led coalition’s strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Opinion: What did Operation Decisive Storm achieve?

by Tariq Alhomayed | Apr 28, 2015 | Opinion

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its allies last week announced the end of Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen, and the beginning of Operation Restoring Hope. But now we must ask: What did Operation Decisive Storm achieve, and what can we expect from Restoring Hope? In...

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Jamal Benomar, the former UN special envoy to Yemen, speaks during a press conference in Sana’a, Yemen, on December 24, 2013. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

UN envoy Benomar sought to legitimize Houthi coup: Yemen FM

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Apr 28, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s legitimate government has accused Jamal Benomar, the UN’s former special envoy to Yemen, of siding with the Houthi movement during UN-sponsored talks between the country’s different political factions earlier in the...

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he remains of a senior center set ablaze during night riots smolder at dawn on April 28, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (AFP/Mark Makela)

Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of black man who died in police custody

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2015 | World

Baltimore, Reuters—Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody....

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A 21-year old from the UK, nick-named by Kurdish fighters as Hewal Givara, stands with his weapon at night on April 14, 2015, in the outskirts of the north-western Syrian town of Tal Tamr, north of Hasakeh, near the border with Turkey. (AF[/Ugyar Onder Simsek)

ISIS has killed over 2,000 off battlefield since June: monitor

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Ultra-radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a “caliphate” in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights...

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A picture taken on April 1, 2015 shows Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talking to the press at the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

Yemen’s government to present “evidence” to UN of ex-president Saleh’s involvement with Al-Qaeda

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 27, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The legitimate Yemeni government led by internationally recognized President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi is preparing a report to present to the United Nations detailing former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s involvement with terror groups such as...