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Smoke rises over Gaza City after an Israeli strike, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, as Israel and Gaza militants resumed cross-border attacks after a three-day truce expired. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel, Hamas may have committed war crimes in Gaza: UN report

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2015 | Middle East

Geneva, Reuters—UN investigators said on Monday that Israel and Hamas, as well as other Palestinian militant groups, committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. They called on all sides to...

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Yemen’s Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah visits the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Works in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on June 21, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)

Houthi Geneva delegation arrives in Muscat

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jun 22, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Houthi delegation which attended last week’s peace conference in Geneva has now headed to Muscat, according to Yemen’s human rights minister. The delegation, which also included members of the General People’s Congress (GPC) party headed by...

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Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. (Reuters/Kevin LaMarque)

The “Most Dangerous Woman” in America

by Amir Taheri | Jun 22, 2015 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—To those who see world events through the prism of conspiracies, Judith Miller, a soft-spoken New York brunette, is the Queen of Conspiracies. It was she who sold the idea of toppling Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi despot, to the American public by...

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Men carry an oxygen tank from the Red Crescent medical center after it was bombed, in Al-Sakhour neighborhood of Aleppo, on April 28, 2015. (Reuters/Hamid Khatib)

Opinion: Isn’t it Time for Safe Havens in the Middle East?

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 22, 2015 | Opinion

Political, social, and economic problems neither solve themselves nor dissolve and disappear with time. They require honesty with oneself and others as well as practical and courageous commitment to change unacceptable facts on the ground. Think of how President...

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Members of security forces stand at the site of an attack near the Afghan parliament in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 22, 2015. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)

Taliban launch brazen attack on Afghan parliament, seize second district in north

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 22, 2015 | World

Kabul, Reuters—A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to consider a new defense minister, and another district in the volatile north fell to the militants as they intensified a summer offensive. The brazen...