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Iraqi fighters from the Shiite Muslim Al-Abbas popular mobilization unit hold up their weapons in the area surrounding the village of Nukhayb in the embattled Anbar province west of the capital Baghdad, on May 19, 2015. (AFP/Mohammed Sawaf)

Iraq deploys tanks as ISIS tightens grip on Ramadi

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 19, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Iraqi security forces on Tuesday deployed tanks and artillery around Ramadi to confront Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters who have captured the city in a major defeat for the Baghdad government and its Western backers. After Ramadi fell...

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Asharq Al-Awsat‘s Deputy Editor-in-Chief talks to Egyptian Vice President Mohamed El-Baradei at the Federal Palace, Cairo. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: Life Savings

by Ali Ibrahim | May 19, 2015 | Opinion

I write this article after months of forced absence. I have yet to return home and am still in the process of recovery. So should I wait for longer or write? In truth, the journalist in me triumphed in the end, and since I have spent a considerable period of time in...

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Yemen’s exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) arrives for the opening of the Riyadh conference in the Saudi capital on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)

Yemen: Houthis push for Iran participation in UN peace talks

by Arafat Madabish | May 19, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Houthi movement has informed the new UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, that it wants Iran to be included in any peace talks to be sponsored by the international organization, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. Speaking to Asharq...

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A demonstrator raises her hands in the air as she faces soldiers in the Musaga neighborhood of Bujumbura, Burundi, on May 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Burundi protesters gather in capital, defying threat of crackdown

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 19, 2015 | World

Bujumbura, Reuters—More than 100 protesters chanted slogans against Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza and his bid for a third term in office on Tuesday in defiance of government threats of a crackdown on demonstrations. “We will not stop until he gives...