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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to board Air Force One for travel to New Orleans from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, August 27, 2015. Obama on Thursday will highlight the “structural inequality” that hurt poor black people in New Orleans before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, during a visit to celebrate the city’s progress 10 years after the storm. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Opinion: Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, and Obama’s Illusions

by Amir Taheri | Aug 28, 2015 | Opinion

Promoting the “deal” he claims he has made with Iran, President Barack Obama is trying to cast himself as heir to a tradition of “peace through negotiations” followed by US presidents for decades. In that context he has named Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon...

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A poster released 10 October 2001 showing the photo of Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Mughassil, one of the FBI’s 22 most wanted terrorists.(EPA/FBI)

Mughassil was arrested by Lebanese authorities at Beirut airport: report

by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | Aug 28, 2015 | Middle East

Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ahmed Al-Mughassil, the suspected mastermind of the 1996 Kohbar Towers bombing, was arrested at Beirut’s airport by the Lebanese authorities three weeks ago, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said on Thursday, quoting a senior Lebanese security...

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A member loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) waves an ISIS flag in the Syrian city of Raqqa, on June 29, 2014. (Reuters/Stringer)

British hacker for ISIS killed in US drone strike in Syria: sources

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 28, 2015 | Middle East

Washington, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—A British hacker who US and European officials said became a top cyber expert for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been killed in a US drone strike, a US source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. It was the second...

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Egypt’s deserted pyramids of Giza. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Opinion: Goodbye Heikal!

by Yousef Al-Dayni | Aug 27, 2015 | Opinion

I wrote this article after I decided to free myself of the burden of fear that characterized many of the past attempts to criticize Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the man who contributed to the failure of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arab project more than its imaginary...

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Militants loyal to Yemen’s exiled government ride atop a tank they seized from Houthi militiamen in the country’s central city of Taiz on August 17, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Yemen talks in Muscat showing “positive signs”: Yemeni minister

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Aug 27, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Talks between the UN envoy and the Houthis in Oman are showing “positive signs” towards finding a political solution to the conflict that has gripped Yemen for almost a year, a minister from Yemen’s exiled government has said. Speaking to...