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Cemil Bayik, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s second-in-command. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Erdoğan “undermined” peace with Kurds: PKK leader

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jun 26, 2015 | Middle East

Mount Qandil (Iraqi Kurdistan), Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is responsible for “terminating” peace process between Ankara and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a senior party official told Asharq Al-Awsat on Thursday. Speaking to Asharq...

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Iranian military officers saluting Iran’s supreme leader. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on February 8, 2015. (EPA/SUPREME LEADER OFFICIAL WEBSITE/HANDOUT)

Opinion: Khamenei tries to force generals back into line

by Amir Taheri | Jun 26, 2015 | Opinion

Is Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei worried that the forthcoming elections for Majlis (Parliament) and the Assembly of Experts might cause a split within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)? The question is not academic. Over the past year, various IRGC...

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A picture taken on April 1, 2015 shows Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talking to the press at the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Stringer)

No need for second Geneva conference on Yemen, says FM

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jun 26, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Al-Hudaydah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s exiled Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said there was no need for another round of talks with the Houthi movement in Geneva, maintaining that his government will start looking for ways to implement a UN Security Council...