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epa04780637 FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter speaks during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, 02 June 2015. (EPA/Ennio Leanza)

Blatter stands down as FIFA president

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 2, 2015 | World

Zurich, Reuters—Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday, four days after being re-elected to a fifth term. The 79-year-old, announced the decision at a news conference in Zurich, six days after the FBI had raided a hotel in Zurich and arrested several FIFA...

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In this picture taken on Friday, February 14, 2014, Hezbollah fighters march in a parade during the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, south Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Opinion: Iran threatens, ISIS executes

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 2, 2015 | Opinion

The two terrorist attacks targeting mosques in Al-Qadeeh and Dammam in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia prove—if proof were ever needed—that the Kingdom is fighting a real war. Even before Operation Decisive Storm was launched in Yemen, Iran’s leaders were...

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United Nations envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed talks to reporters upon arrival at the international airport of Sana’a, Yemen, on May 29, 2015. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah)

Yemen: Mediation efforts intensify as violence continues

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jun 2, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A crucial meeting between Yemen’s rival political forces to end the ongoing crisis in the Arabian Peninsula state is set to take place in Geneva within the next two weeks, informed Yemeni political sources told Asharq Al-Awsat. The talks, which...

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Afghan security forces are seen from a cracked side window of a vehicle, which was damaged in a suicide attack on a police headquarters in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on June 1, 2015. (Reuters/Parwiz)

Militant attack kills 9 Afghans working for Czech charity

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 2, 2015 | World

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, AP—Militants attacked a remote guesthouse and killed nine Afghans working for a Czech charity on Tuesday, as a new report by Brown University warned that almost 100,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion...