Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

Archives | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
Select Page
Media ID: 55345192
Caption:

A handout picture released by Iraqi Prime Minister’s office on August 27, 2015 shows Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi (C) and Defense Minister Khaled Al-Obeidi (C-R) attending the funeral in Baghdad of the deputy head of the Anbar Operations Command, Staff Major General Abdulrahman Abu Raghif, and 10th Division commander Staff Brigadier General Safin Abdulmajid, after they were both killed in a suicide attack in the Anbar province. (AFP PHOTO / HO / IRAQI PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE)


Media ID: 55335888
Caption:
Defectors call ISIS brutal, corrupt: study

Defectors call ISIS brutal, corrupt: study

Brussels, AP—A survey of defectors from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has found many quit the organization because they felt it was too brutal or corrupt, or because it made war too frequently against other Sunni Muslims. The survey, issued Monday by a...
Media ID: 55345185
Caption:

A picture taken in Tehran on March 4, 2015 shows the front pages of Iranian newspapers displaying headlines in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United States Congress regarding Iran’s nuclear program. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)


How the nuclear issue divided the Iranian media

How the nuclear issue divided the Iranian media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—For over a year one story has dominated the Iranian media: settling the dispute over the nuclear project and getting sanctions lifted. Having won the presidency with the smallest margin in the lowest turnout in the history of elections in the...
Media ID: 55339740
Caption:

Iraqi Vice-President Iyad Allawi speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)


Media ID: 55343138
Caption:

A picture taken on April 1, 2015 shows Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talking to the press at the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Stringer)