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An armed Yemeni tribesman from the Popular Resistance supporting forces loyal to Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi sits on a tank at sunset in Ma’rib province, east of the capital, Sana’a, on May 6, 2015. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

Yemen: Houthis accept Saudi-led coalition’s truce proposal

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Iran-backed Shi’ite Houthi movement announced on Sunday it has accepted the offer of a five-day humanitarian ceasefire in the country that was offered by the anti-Houthi Saudi-led coalition on Friday. Yemen news agency SABA,...

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US President Barack Obama walks to welcome guests arriving for the G8 summit in Camp David, on June 17, 2013. (AFP Photo/Getty Images/Mikhail Klimentyev)

Opinion: Is the Camp David summit a marketing tool for the Iran deal?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 10, 2015 | Opinion

US President Barack Obama is known for his persuasive talents. Indeed, the upcoming Camp David summit may not only ease the minds of the invited Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders and calm the anger aroused by the impending Iranian nuclear agreement; it may also...

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Protesters demonstrate against the Conservative government in Whitehall, Westminster, London, on May 9, 2015, after David Cameron’s Conservative Party swept to power on Friday in Britain’s Parliamentary General Elections, winning an unexpected majority. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

“Winner takes all” vote system exaggerates Britain’s divisions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—David Cameron can thank Britain’s winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. But by boosting the power of Scottish nationalists, it has also intensified one of his biggest...

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In this file photo released Sept. 24, 2014 by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria, in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Opinion: Saudi Arabia, between War and Development

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | May 9, 2015 | Opinion

Can a country be at war while at the same time seek to improve its growth, development and services? Or to put it another way: Can you hold the sword in one hand, and the pen and ruler in the other? A well-established and stable state can do this, moving seamlessly...

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Iraqi artist Wissam Al-Farati holds his lutes, named “Tigris” and “Euphrates,” which he fashioned out of a soldier’s helmet and a pickaxe used to dig battle trenches, at his home in Baghdad, Iraq. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iraqi artist transforms instruments of war into “instruments of peace”

by Manaf Al-Obaidi | May 9, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—In a recent video posted on the Internet, Karim Wasfi, an Iraqi musician and the former conductor of Iraq’s National Symphony Orchestra, walks into a car bomb site in Baghdad with his cello and starts playing a sad, haunting melody he had...