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Tunisian policemen keep watch on the beach where tourists were shot dead in front of the Hotel Imperial Marhaba in Sousse, Tunisia, on July 1, 2015. (EPA/Mohamed Messara)

Tunisia: Report finds shortcomings in security over Sousse attack

by Monji Saidani | Jul 1, 2015 | Middle East

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—An initial report by authorities in Tunisia into last week’s attack at a tourist resort in the coastal city of Sousse has found that both the country’s security services and the hotel did not do enough to stop the massacre. Thirty-nine people,...

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People attend a protest to condemn an attack by a gunman at the beach of the Imperial Marhabada hotel in Sousse, Tunisia, June 27, 2015. Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and its health ministry said eight Britons, a German, a Belgian and an Irish citizen were among the casualties of the attack at a hotel in the resort town of Sousse. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Opinion: Remote-Controlled Terrorism

by Ali Ibrahim | Jul 1, 2015 | Opinion

Terrorism hit three continents on the same day last week, causing dozens of deaths on a beach in Tunisia and a mosque in Kuwait as well as the beheading of a man at a factory in France where the murderer posed for a selfie with his victim’s decapitated body—an act...

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In this picture provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (R) speaks at the funeral for Hisham Barakat, the top judicial official in charge of overseeing the prosecution of thousands of Islamists, including former President Mohammed Mursi, in Cairo, on June 30, 2015. (Egyptian Presidency via AP)

ISIS affiliate claims coordinated attacks in Sinai, officials say 50 dead

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Jul 1, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least 50 people were killed and 55 wounded on Wednesday after militants targeted army checkpoints in Egypt’s restive North Sinai region, security and health officials said. The attacks, which were coordinated to hit several checkpoints across...

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A Yemeni man receives a food package delivered by volunteers during the Muslims fasting month of Ramadan at a slum in Sana’a, Yemen, on June 29, 2015. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)

Houthis free 1,200 prisoners, Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen: officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 1, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Houthi rebels on Tuesday released about 1,200 inmates, including Al-Qaeda suspects, from a prison in an area they control in central Yemen following an attack by forces loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, officials said. The rebels, who...