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Damaged buildings are seen at Al-Amriya frontline in Aleppo March 3, 2015. (Reuters/Hosam Katan)

Opinion: What about our own responsibility to Syria?

by Osman Mirghani | May 16, 2015 | Opinion

The Syrian crisis is one of the worst humanitarian disasters that the Middle East has ever witnessed, if not the worst. In one of its most recent reports, the European Union went so far as to say that the Syrian conflict has created the worst humanitarian disaster...

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir speaks to the press following a summit meeting with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at Camp David in Maryland on May 14, 2015. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Saudi FM: GCC “comfortable” with Obama reassurance over Iran deal

by Heba El Koudsy | May 16, 2015 | Middle East

Camp David, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir described Thursday’s US-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, which saw US pledges of “ironclad” support for Gulf regional security, as “historic and unprecedented.” In comments to Asharq Al-Awsat...

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Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi raises his hands from behind the defendant’s cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him to death at the police academy in Cairo on May 16, 2015. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Court sentences Egypt’s ousted president to death

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 16, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted president Mohamed Mursi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took place during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. As is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban El-Shami...

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A migrant recovers after being saved from the sea in Kuala Langsa, East Aceh, Indonesia, on May 15, 2015.
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Malaysia intercepts migrants towed back to sea by Thais, thousands still adrift

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 16, 2015 | World

Koh Lipe, Thailand, Reuters—Malaysian vessels on Saturday intercepted a boat crammed with migrants after the Thai navy towed it away from Thailand, the latest of a number of vessels pushed back to sea by governments who have ignored a UN call for an immediate rescue....