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Jaish al-Fatah opposition fighters preparing to launch a shell on the regime’s forces in the countryside of Latakia (Getty)

Syrian Opposition Movements to Remove “those misled” from Terrorism

by Nazeer Rida | Nov 24, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

Whilst international arrangements continue to prepare lists of terrorist organisations in Syria in response to the decisions of the Vienna 2 conference, the President of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces Khaled Khoja called the...

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Khamenei looks at a copy of the Holy Qur’an gifted to him by Putin during their meeting in Tehran yesterday (Reuters)

Khamenei Courts Putin: American Policies Threaten our Countries

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 24, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

The Kremlin announced that the Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s views on the situation in Syria were the same during their meeting which continued for more than an hour and a half in Tehran. The Spokesman for the...

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Newspapers in Iran are heavily censored and often closed down

Iran’s Oldest Daily Blows out 90 Candles

by Amir Taheri | Nov 24, 2015 | Middle East

In a speech at the Press Expo in Tehran earlier this month, President Hassan Rouhani expressed regret that Iranians have not succeeded in creating a “lasting newspaper.” He wondered why it was that the Times of London was now in the third century of its existence...