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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...

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Relatives of Lebanese soldiers, kidnapped by fighters believed to be linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front, hold photos depicting the soldiers during a protest in front of the Lebanese government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 4, 2014. (EPA/Nabil Mouzner)

Hezbollah undermining efforts to free Lebanese Nusra Front hostages: source

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 25, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hezbollah has been obstructing recent efforts to secure the release of 16 Lebanese hostages abducted by the Al-Nusra Front extremist group last August, an informed source told Asharq Al-Awsat. The source said a number of Arab and...

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Southern militiamen loyal to Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi fire from a tank against alleged positions held by Houthi fighters in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on June 24, 2015. (EPA/Stringer)

Yemeni armed forces in control of Saudi border crossing

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Jun 25, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Washington DC and Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Yemeni armed forces are now in control of a border crossing between Yemen and Saudi Arabia that was captured on Tuesday from the Houthi movement by volunteer forces loyal to the country’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur...