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Soldiers stand on a tank of the Saudi-led coalition deployed on the outskirts of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, on August 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)

Ground operation “imminent” as coalition forces continue to arrive in central Yemen: source

by Arafat Madabish | Aug 30, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—A coordinated ground operation including forces from the Saudi-led anti-Houthi coalition, the Yemeni army, and volunteers loyal to Yemen’s government will soon be launched to liberate areas of the country still under the control...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (C) leaves an elevator after his meeting with Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Opinion: The True Face of the Iranian Regime

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 30, 2015 | Opinion

The Iranian regime’s bad reputation is not merely propaganda that has been fabricated against it ever since the revolution against the Shah—as it maintains. It is actually the true face of a regime that has for more than 36 years exported conflict, revolution,...

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A handout picture made available by Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syrian army soldiers during an artillery operations in the Al-Zabadani area in western rural Damascus, Syria, on July 9, 2015. (EPA/SANA/HO)

Syria: Zabadani ceasefire between Hezbollah, Syrian rebels breaks down

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 30, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—A ceasefire in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border and in two villages to the north has broken down after renewed heavy shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday. The truce between the Syrian army and the...