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(L–R) British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, US Secretary of State John Kerry, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, react during a press event after the end of a new round of Iran nuclear talks in the Learning Center at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 2, 2015. (EPA/Valentin Flauraud)
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A Turkish Kurdish boy stands near the Mursitpinar border gate in Suruc in Sanliurfa province, Turkey, as smoke rises in the Syrian town of Kobani in the background on June 27, 2015. (REUTERS/Murad Sezer)
Kurds secure Syria’s Kobani as ISIS targets northeast
Beirut, Reuters—Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide...Caption:
Member of the Shi’ite Houthi militia stand guard on a wall surrounding the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, on 01 January 2015. (EPA/Yahya Arhab)
Yemen gov’t, activists campaigning in Geneva against Houthi violations: source
Sana’a and Aden Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s government-in-exile and human rights activists have launched an international campaign aimed at highlighting violations and crimes committed by Houthi rebels who control large parts of the country, government sources say....Caption:
Members of the Shura Council attending the inauguration ceremony headed by King Abdullah at his palace in Riyadh in a February 19, 2013 handout image from the Saudi Press Agency. (AFP PHOTO/HO/SPA)
Opinion: The Saudi Shura Council should give a better image of the Kingdom
Amid the turmoil in the region and the growing sectarian Sunni–Shi’ite clashes whose signs are becoming evident in several countries, as well as tensions among tribes, it seems pretty obvious that citizenship, in its broad sense, should act as a lifeline in the face...Caption:
A picture taken on June 27, 2015 shows a bullet-riddled windscreen near the Riu Imperial Marhaba Hotel in Port El-Kantaoui, on the outskirts of Sousse south of the capital Tunis, in the aftermath of a shooting attack on the beach resort claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). (AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)