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Tanks of fighters loyal to Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi are seen on a road leading to the Al-Anad military and airbase in the country’s southern province of Lahj, on August 3, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

Yemen: Pro-Hadi loyalists retake strategic base from Houthis

by Arafat Madabish | Aug 4, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—Forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi on Monday captured the strategic southern Al-Anad military base from Houthi militias who had held it for over four months. Yemen’s Defense Ministry...

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A picture released by the office of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on March 20, 2013, shows him addressing the nation on the occasion of Noruz, the Iranian New Year, in Tehran. (AFP Photo/Iranian Supreme Leader’s Website)

An American Scenario for Taming the Mullahs of Tehran

by Amir Taheri | Aug 4, 2015 | Book Reviews

[inset_left] Taking on Iran: Strength, Diplomacy, and the Iranian ThreatBy Abraham D. Sofaer Hoover Institution Press, 182 pages United States, 2015 [/inset_left] With the future of the much-advertised nuclear “deal” between Iran and the six major powers still...

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Opinion: Time for Self-Criticism Amid All the Arab Confusion

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion

Let us stop, even just once, our stubborn denial and talk openly about why we seem addicted to reactions and self-assurances, while others are achieving political advances which even their foes acknowledge. I contend that if we were to pose a direct question along...