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In this image made from video provided by Homs Media Center, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, smoke rises after airstrikes by what were reported to be Russian military jets in Talbiseh of the Homs province, western Syria, on September 30, 2015. (Homs Media Centre via AP)

Kurdish, Iraqi officials reject Baghdad’s cooperation with Russia, Iran and Syria on ISIS

by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 1, 2015 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Several Kurdish and Iraqi officials have rejected a recently announced initiative by Iraq’s government to cooperate with Russia, Iran, and Syria in the fight against the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Baghdad announced on Sunday it...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, enters the Alexadrovsky Hall to head a meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, October. 1, 2015. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool photo via AP)

Opinion: Russia’s Role in Syria

by Ali Ibrahim | Oct 1, 2015 | Opinion

It must be admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to put Moscow on the world’s political map once again after almost three decades of marginalization by the new world order established after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. It is natural...

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Some of the weapons the Bahraini police found hidden in a house in Nuweidrat, a residential district south of the capital, Manama, on Wednesday, September 30, 2015. (Bahrain News Agency Photo)

More than 1.5 tons of explosives, bomb factory uncovered in Bahrain: interior ministry

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 1, 2015 | Middle East

Manama, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bahraini police has uncovered more than 1.5 tons of explosive materials and a large bomb-making factory in two separate locations in a residential area south of the capital Manama, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. The discovery was made...