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This image from aircraft cockpit video released by Turkey’s state-run agency Anadolu on July 24, 2015, shows what they report to be Turkish warplanes striking Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets across the border in Syria. (Anadolu via AP Video)

Opinion: ISIS’s Rebellion against Ankara

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 26, 2015 | Opinion

The official Turkish version is reasonable, despite what skeptics might believe. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was most likely behind the suicide bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruç last week, which left more than 30 people dead. This...

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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif delivers a speech during a press conference in Kuwait City on July 26, 2015 (AFP Photo/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

Iran launches charm offensive among wary Gulf states

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 26, 2015 | Middle East

Dubai and Manama, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif began a charm offensive in the Gulf on Sunday to defend a nuclear deal seen by some Arab states as heralding greater Iranian support for armed groups and governments opposed...

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Turkish tanks patrol near Syria border line near Kilis, southeastern Turkey, on 24 July 2015. (EPA/DENIZ TOPRAK)

Turkey strikes ISIS, Kurdish militants in drive for “safe zone”

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2015 | World

Ankara, Reuters—Turkish fighter jets and ground forces hit Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants in Syria and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camps in Iraq overnight on Saturday, in a campaign Ankara said would help create a “safe zone” across...

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Houthi fighters wearing army uniforms ride in a pickup while patrolling in a street in Sana’a, Yemen, on July 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Government loyalists close in on Yemen’s largest air base: defense official

by Mohamed Ali Mohsen | Jul 25, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fighters loyal to Yemen’s government-in-exile on Friday clashed with Houthis inside the rebel-held Al-Anad Air Base, the country’s largest, after capturing most of the surrounding area, a senior defense official said. At least 12 were killed and...

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A handout picture made available by Syrian Arab news agency SANA shows Syrian army soldiers during a artillery operations in Al-Zabadani area in western rural Damascus, Syria, on 9 July 2015. (EPA/SANA HANDOUT)

Hezbollah, Syrian army want rebels to leave Zabadani “without weapons”, says opposition

by Nazeer Rida | Jul 25, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian army and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters have in recent days stepped up attacks on the rebel-held Al-Zabadani in an effort to force opposition fighters to accept a deal that would see them leave the border city without their weapons,...