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Muslim cleric, Abu Hamza Al-Masri, is seen leading prayers outside the North London Central Mosque, in Finsbury Park, north London in this January 24, 2003 file photograph. (REUTERS/Toby Melville)

Abu Hamza: The Americans are trying to kill me slowly

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Oct 9, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian-born radical preacher Abu Hamza Al-Masri, serving a life sentence in the US on terrorism charges, has spoken out from his prison cell, exclusively revealing to Asharq Al-Awsat that he has been held in solitary confinement since his...

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Fighters of the Popular Resistance stand during a graduation ceremony of the affiliate special forces of the Popular Resistance, in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz on October 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Arab coalition denies targeting wedding party in southwest Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 9, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen has denied its warplanes targeted a wedding party in the southwestern Dhamar Governorate on Thursday, maintaining that the incident was caused by a firefight between the Shi’ite rebels...

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FILE – In this Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters. (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Opinion: When Obama talks, Putin acts

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Oct 9, 2015 | Opinion

Like many, I listened the other day to Barack Obama talking about the Russian military intervention in Syria. In his talk the American president criticized Vladimir Putin’s refusal to distinguish between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Syria’s moderate...

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Armed Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, jubilate on a road after seizing control of an area in Ma’rib province, east of the capital Sana’a, on October 5, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ABDULLAH AL-QADRY)

Yemen: Houthis, Saleh’s party agree to stop fighting, gov’t demands “concrete steps”

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 8, 2015 | Middle East

Washington and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Houthis and the party of the ex-president have agreed to stop fighting, the United Nations said on Wednesday, more than six months after a Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to...

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In this photo made from the footage taken from Russian Defense Ministry official web site on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, a Russian navy ship launches a cruise missile in the Caspian Sea. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia backs Syrian forces in major assault on insurgents

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

Beirut, Reuters—Syrian troops and militia backed by Russian warplanes mounted what appeared to be their first major coordinated assault on Syrian insurgents on Wednesday and Moscow said its warships fired a barrage of missiles at them from the Caspian Sea, a sign of...