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Vendors sell produce along a damaged street, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Aleppo’s Al-Shaar neighborhood on June 27, 2015.
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Syria: Opposition says some Assad officials can have role in future government

by Caroline Akoum | Jul 3, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syria’s armed opposition has said it is willing to allow members of President Bashar Al-Assad’s cabinet, who have not taken part in bloodshed, to participate in any future transitional government. Rami Dalati, a member of the Free Syrian...

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In a still image from a video posted on a militant website in early July, ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi purportedly delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)

Opinion: The Terrorist Challenge—Understanding and Misunderstanding

by Amir Taheri | Jul 3, 2015 | Opinion

Faced with the growing threat of terrorism, Western officials and analysts seem hard put as to how to deal with something they find difficult to understand. British Prime Minister David Cameron has advised the media not to use the term “Islamic State” for the Islamic...

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UN’s envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (R), walks alongside Yemeni Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin before their meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on July 1, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE)

Yemen: Government calls for joint Arab force to monitor withdrawal of Houthis

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jul 3, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s government-in-exile has called on the UN to form a joint Arab military force to oversee the withdrawal of Houthi rebels from the areas they control across Yemen, officials say. The demand is part of a package of seven...