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British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond speaks to Asharq Al-Awsat at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)

Philip Hammond: There may be an opportunity to normalize ties with Iran but we should not blind ourselves to the risks

by Mina Al-Oraibi | Aug 7, 2015 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Since becoming the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary on July 15, 2014, Philip Hammond has had to deal with a series of crises, from Ukraine to Syria. However, he and his counterparts from the United Nations’ Security Council and Germany are...

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FILE – In this July 14, 2015 file pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry, talks with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, as Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif background second left, sits next to European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, during a plenary session at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria. The U.N. Security Council is set to endorse the landmark nuclear deal on Monday, July 20, between Iran and six world powers and adopt a series of measures leading to the end of U.N. sanctions that have hurt the Iranian economy. (Carlos Barria via AP, Pool, File)

Opinion: The Iran “Deal”—A Fragile Arrangement

by Amir Taheri | Aug 7, 2015 | Opinion

As the tussle over the so-called nuclear deal with Iran continues in Tehran and Washington, it is becoming clearer by the day that President Barack Obama’s “a chance in a life-time achievement” may not survive beyond his presidency. A similar picture is taking shape...

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Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf Bin Alawi (R) meets with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem (L) in Muscat, Oman, on August 6, 2015. (EPA/HAMID AL-QASMI)

Syrian FM in rare Oman visit amid heightened diplomacy

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 7, 2015 | Middle East

Dubai and Beirut, Reuters—Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem made his first visit to the Gulf in more than four years on Thursday, meeting his Omani counterpart in Muscat for talks on ways to end the civil war in his country. The visit, his first to the...

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In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Saudi officials and investigators, background, check a mosque inside a police compound after a suicide bombing attack, in the city of Abha, the provincial capital of Asir, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

ISIS claims Saudi Arabia mosque bombing

by Nasser Al-Haqbani | Aug 7, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—A group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s bombing that killed and injured several people, including security personnel, at a mosque in southern Saudi Arabia. A suicide...