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Samy Amimour

First Perpetrator of the Paris Terror Attacks Buried in Private

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2015 | World

Several Paris sources revealed that the remains of one of the perpetrators of last month’s terrorist attacks in Paris was buried in a private ceremony with a few participants. Samy Amimour was one of three men who participated in the Bataclan concert hall bloody...

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Ibrahim al-Jaafari

Al-Jaafari to Asharq Al-Awsat: “There are no Iranian camps in Iraq, instead there are world-wide international consultants.”

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Dec 28, 2015 | Interviews

Below is an extract of an interview held with the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who is also Iraq’s former Prime Minister, about the current atmosphere in Iraq. • What is going to happen after the Arab ministerial meeting, and the positive...

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Russia’s special envoy to Syria secretly paid a visit to Israel

Russia Uses Political Flirtation with Israel

by Kifah Ziboun | Dec 28, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

Israeli political sources revealed that Russia’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentie, secretly paid a visit to Israel last Thursday, and met senior officials of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in addition to a Mossad official at Prime Minister...

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al-Maliki has intervened as a mediator

Al-Maliki Mediates For Kidnapped Qataris

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Dec 28, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

Informed Iraqi sources, in a phone call, told Asharq Al-Awsat’s London bureau, that former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has intervened as a mediator to guarantee the release of the Qataris who were kidnapped two weeks ago in southern Iraq. Sources said that...

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EPA

Opinion: Russia and the Language of the Stick

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 28, 2015 | Opinion

The day after the Russian foreign minister made an impolite statement whilst sitting next to the Qatari foreign minister announcing the failure of their meeting to classify terrorist groups from amongst the Syrian opposition, warplanes which are believed to be Russian...