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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives for the final plenary meeting at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, on July 14, 2015. (Joe Klamar/Pool Photo via AP)
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Southern Popular Resistance fighters flash the victory sign at the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on July 15, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Exiled Yemeni government gradually returning to Aden: minister
Jeddah, Riyadh and Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s government-in-exile said it has started returning to Aden after loyalists captured most of the southern city from Houthi rebels earlier this week. The government will “gradually” relocate to Aden from its current base...Caption:
Armed Iraqi Shi’ite fighters from the Popular Mobilization units, supporting the Iraqi government forces, guard a position during clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group’s militants on July 15, 2015 in the town of Saqlawiya on the outskirts of Fallujah (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Fears ISIS could commit “genocide” in Fallujah as Iraqi government’s Anbar operation begins
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) has warned that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) plans to commit “genocide” against civilians and government troops in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah, as the Iraqi government’s...Caption:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a statement on the Iran talks deal at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria Tuesday July 14, 2015. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions ó an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another U.S. military intervention in the Muslim world. (Carlos Barria, Pool Photo via AP)
Opinion: Iran nuclear deal opens the gates of evil in the Middle East
As one Saudi official recently told Reuters, it would be “a happy day” for the Middle East if the nuclear deal stopped Iran gaining a nuclear arsenal. After all, no one in the region and the world will reject the deal if it succeeds in “freezing” Iran’s military...Caption:
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) speaks with Hossein Fereydoun (C), the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (R), before Kerry and Zarif address an international press corps gathered at the Austria Center in Vienna, Austria, on July 14, 2015, following negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. (Reuters)