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A courtroom sketch shows Khalid Al-Fawwaz (C), a 52-year-old Saudi national described as a top Osama Bin Laden deputy, during his sentencing hearing at the New York Federal Court, on May 15, 2015, during which he was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (Reuters/Marilyn Church/Handout)

Opinion: Khalid Al-Fawwaz and the Problem of Terrorism

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | May 18, 2015 | Opinion

On Friday the New York Federal Court sentenced Khalid Al-Fawwaz, a suspect in the deadly 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, to life in prison. It took 16 years after the crime was committed to issue the sentence against Fawwaz, who for a while...

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In this Sunday, May 17, 2015 photo, Iraqi Sunni tribal leaders demand that Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi sends forces to protect their city and regain Ramadi shortly after Iraqi security forces withdraw from the city following an advance by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), during a press conference in Habaniyah town, 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)

Ramadi falls to ISIS amid “complete withdrawal” of Iraqi forces

by Hamza Mustafa | May 18, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—After two days of fighting, the city of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Iraq’s largest governorate, Anbar, has been captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) amid a “complete withdrawal” of Iraqi...

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A Rohingya migrant child, who arrived in Indonesia by boat, carries belongings while walking to a bigger shelter inside a temporary compound for refugees in Kuala Cangkoi village in Lhoksukon, Indonesia’s Aceh Province, on May 18, 2015. (Reuters/Beawiharta)

Ordinary people help migrants as Asia struggles with crisis

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 18, 2015 | World

Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, AP—For hundreds of migrants stranded at sea in sinking boats, the first helping hand came not from governments but from fishermen who towed them to safety. The desperation of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh has not compelled neighboring...