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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)
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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
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...Caption:
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
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...Caption:
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (L) and US President Barack Obama meet during a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, United States, on September 4, 2015. (EPA/Olivier Douliery /POOL)
Opinion: A New Alliance between Riyadh and Washington
Even political alliances have shelf lives, and sometimes see a decline in fortunes. It is for this reason that Saudi Arabia and the United States have chosen not to rely solely on the length of their unique seven-decade relationship, but have also formed an new and...Caption:
Smoke rises after an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in Sana’a, Yemen, on September 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)