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Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, UN special envoy to Yemen, center, arrives at the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Houthis “flexible” on meeting UN demands: sources

by Arafat Madabish | Jun 1, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed has reached a “flexible agreement” with the Shi’ite Houthi movement that would see them hold talks with Yemen’s government in order to resolve the crisis in the country, sources told Asharq...

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Saudi security forces inspect the site of a suicide bombing that targeted the Shi’ite Al-Anoud mosque in the coastal city of Dammam on May 29, 2015. (AFP)

Opinion: Saudi Arabia remains steadfast in the face of terrorism

by Salman Al-dossary | Jun 1, 2015 | Opinion

After one week of targeting innocent worshippers at the Imam Ali mosque in the city of Qatif in Saudi Arabia, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) carried out another attack in the Kingdom, this time on the Al-Anoud mosque in Dammam, the capital of its Eastern...

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In this image made from a militant video posted on YouTube on Monday, June 1, 2015 which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Frenchwoman Isabelle Prime, who was kidnapped in February while working for a consultancy firm with ties to the World Bank, addresses the French president, in Yemen. (AP)

France says Yemen hostage video is genuine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 1, 2015 | World

Paris, Reuters—France authenticated on Monday a video that shows a Frenchwoman taken hostage in Yemen appealing to President Francois Hollande and Yemen’s exiled leader to help her and it said it was doing all it could to secure her release. The video, seen by...