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Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu gives a statement on the situation with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other militant groups during a press conference after his visit at the Turkish Council of State in Ankara on July 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)

Turkey says jets strike ISIS targets in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 24, 2015 | World

Ankara, AP—Turkish warplanes struck the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group targets across the border in Syria on Friday, government officials said, a day after ISIS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost, killing a soldier. The bombing is a strong...

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epa04857980 US President Barack Obama greets participants of the Reach Higher Initiative conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 23 July 2015. First Lady Michelle Obama hosted the conference aimed to inspire every student to pursue and complete a post secondary education. EPA/SHAWN THEW

Opinion: Obama’s Potemkin Villages

by Amir Taheri | Jul 24, 2015 | Opinion

Commenting on the multiple crises the world faces today, US President Barack Obama has often boasted about his “21st century diplomacy” presumably in contrast with the old school that, he claims, must now be relegated to the dustbin of history. In a sense, Obama has...

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Workers and Southern Resistance fighters unload an aid shipment from a Saudi military cargo plane at the international airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on July 23, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Yemen’s ex-president, Houthis in talks with diplomats to end war

by Arafat Madabish | Jul 24, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s ex-president, and the Houthi movement are in “secret” talks with Western and Arab diplomats to help end the war in the country, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned. “[Saleh and Houthis] are actively...

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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...