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Military vehicles carrying Gulf Arab soldiers arrive at Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib, on September 8, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)

“Zero hour” for Sana’a operation approaches as more Arab forces pour into Yemen: source

by Arafat Madabish | Sep 8, 2015 | Middle East

Sana’a and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—More Arab forces from the anti-Houthi coalition led by Saudi Arabia are heading to Yemen, as the date for an impending operation to liberate the country’s capital Sana’a fast approaches, a high-level Yemeni source told Asharq...

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A Syrian refugee woman looks from a bus as the ferry ‘Diagoras’ is reflected on it after its arrival at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece, on September 8, 2015. (EPA/Yannis Kolesidis)

Opinion: The Syrians between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 8, 2015 | Opinion

Russia’s Vladimir Putin is never tired. He is still actively promoting a “peace deal” in Syria that keeps Bashar Al-Assad and those backing him as an integral part of the “solution” to Syria’s crisis, although the only “solution” Assad has sought since March 2011 is...

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A picture taken on March 8, 2015 shows Egypt’s Agriculture Minister Salah El-Din Helal posing at his office in Cairo. (AFP Photo/STR)

Egypt’s agriculture minister resigns, detained amid corruption probe

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 8, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—Egypt’s agriculture minister was detained on Monday shortly after resigning from his post amid a corruption investigation involving him and others allegedly receiving bribes worth over 1 million US dollars, the country’s acting prosecutor general...