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In this photo made from the footage taken from the Russian Defense Ministry official website on October 9, 2015, a bomb is released from a Russian Su-34 strike fighter in Syria. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Opinion: Syrian Quicksand

by Ali Ibrahim | Oct 11, 2015 | Opinion

Anyone observing current events in the Middle East must be wringing their hands in the face of such a perplexing and catastrophic situation. The gambles which some countries are making now risk inflaming the Syrian crisis into a third world war—or at the very least a...

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Protesters throw Molotov cocktails towards a water cannon during clashes with police on October 10, 2015 at the Gazi district in Istanbul, a few hours after a deadly terrorist attack in Ankara that killed at least 86 people. (AFP Photo/Yasin Akgul)

Scuffles break out as police hold back Turkish mourners

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 11, 2015 | Middle East

Ankara, AP—Scuffles broke out Sunday in the Turkish capital as police used tear gas to prevent pro-Kurdish politicians and other mourners from laying carnations at the site of two suspected suicide bombings that killed 95 people and wounded hundreds in Turkey’s...

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In this photograph taken on October 8, 2015, Afghan security forces stand guard at the main gate of the prison, after retaking Kunduz from the Taliban, in Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing five days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, Doctors Without Borders warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO / Nasir WAQIF

Opinion: Why is the “right war” taking a wrong turn?

by Amir Taheri | Oct 10, 2015 | Opinion

Only a few months ago US Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to promote Afghanistan as a foreign policy success for the Obama administration. Barack Obama’s plan to complete US military withdrawal was near completion and there was even talk of establishing...

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Militants loyal to Yemen’s government dance with their weapons on a road in the coastal town of Dhubabin the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, on October 9, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Government loyalists, Arab coalition advance in Yemen’s Taiz

by Mohamed Ali Mohsen | Oct 10, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Taiz and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemeni government loyalists, aided by Saudi-led coalition forces, have made fresh gains in Taiz, military sources said on Friday, bringing them closer to capturing the western governorate and the Red Sea port of Al-Mokha from...

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In this image posted on Thursday, October 8, 2015, by the Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), shows ISIS militants preparing to fire a mortar to shell towards Syrian government forces positions at Tal Arn in Aleppo province, Syria. (ISIS militant website via AP)

ISIS makes gains near Syrian city of Aleppo; US abandons rebel training program

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 10, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut and Ankara, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that...