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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...

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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...