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Former Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal (L) and former Iraqi prime minister current Vice President Nuri Al-Maliki. (Reuters/Mian Khursheed)

Opinion: Nuri Al-Maliki and Saud Al-Faisal’s Advice

by Salman Al-dossary | Jul 23, 2015 | Opinion

After his recent unprecedented attack on Saudi Arabia and his odious calls for the Kingdom to be placed under “international trusteeship,” Iraqi Vice President Nuri Al-Maliki has surely delivered a knockout blow to any chances of rapprochement between Baghdad and...

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaks during a news conference with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Baghdad on January 13, 2014. (Reuters/Ahmed Saad)

Iraqi government disavows Maliki comments on Saudi Arabia

by Hamza Mustafa | Jul 23, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad and Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi leadership on Wednesday distanced itself from comments made by Nuri Al-Maliki, Iraq’s former prime minister and current vice president, in which he referred to Saudi Arabia as a “sponsor and supporter of terrorism.” The...

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A Saudi military cargo plane is seen at the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on July 22, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Yemen: First Saudi aid plane arrives in Aden

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Jul 23, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Saudi military plane loaded with aid arrived in Yemen’s Aden on Wednesday, the first since the city’s international airport reopened following four months of fighting between government loyalists and Houthi rebels. The plane was...

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A university assistant shows fragments of an old Qur’an at the University of Birmingham, in Birmingham central England on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

British university says Qur’an parchment among oldest

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 23, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, AP—A British university disclosed Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Qur’an manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the Prophet Muhammad. The announcement by the University of Birmingham...