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The Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen Khaled Bahah inspects one of the fronts in Ma’rib with its governor Sultan Al-Arada (Reuters)

Bahah on the Ma’rib Front, and Students in Sana’a Protest against Al-Houthi’s Visit

by Arafat Madabish | Nov 23, 2015 | Middle East

The Vice President and Prime Minister of Yemen Khaled Bahah paid a surprise visit to the Ma’rib governorate, east of the capital Sana’a yesterday. The visit by a high ranking government official was the first of its kind in the region since the outbreak of war in the...

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Opinion: The GCC and Iran- Between Blindness and Hallucination

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 23, 2015 | Opinion

The American Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter in an interview with The Atlantic magazine blamed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) of not opposing Iran regionally. He said “We see Iran everywhere, but we do not see a Gulf presence”. Contrary to his observation,...

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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle anchored in the eastern Mediterranean in front of the Syrian coast to participate in the war against ISIS (AFP)

France Moves its War against ISIS to Raqqa, and Alarm in Belgium

by Michel Abu Najm | Nov 23, 2015 | World

A week after the bloody attacks that Paris witnessed and which ISIS claimed responsibility for, France yesterday implied that it is moving its fight against this terrorist organisation to ISIS strongholds in Syria and Iraq. The French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le...