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Messi Wins Ballon d’Or for Fifth Time

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 11, 2016 | Sports

ZURICH- Lionel Messi reclaimed the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for the world player of the year on Monday, after watching his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo walk off with the prize for the previous two years. The Barcelona and Argentina forward finished ahead of...

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Opinion: Is Western Media Showing “Saudiphobia”

by Amir Taheri | Jan 11, 2016 | Opinion

“Our friends by necessity”. This is how Max Boots, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times describes Saudi Arabia in an article regarding the latest diplomatic tussle between Riyadh and Tehran. His advice is that although Americans don’t like Saudi Arabia, the Obama...

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Opinion: Syria – Hunger as a Political Tool

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jan 11, 2016 | Opinion

I have had the honour of knowing two exceptional men, both of whom passed away with undying love for their birthplace: Damascus. They were my former professor and mentor Professor Yusuf Ibish, and the great Arab poet Nizar Qabbani. For those interested in Arabic...

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Opinion: Mass Starvation after Barrels and Chemical Weapons!

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jan 11, 2016 | Opinion

It is not surprising that the Syrian regime is deliberately starving thousands of people because it practiced this in the cellars of its prisons and against its opponents as a policy over a period of forty years of rule. Brutality is not alien to Iran whose generals...

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Britain Uses Brimstone Missiles 1st Time in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 11, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The British Royal Air Force has used Brimstone missiles against ISIS in Syria for the first time on Sunday as four Brimstone missiles were deployed on two missions. One missile was used near Raqqa, targeting an ISIS supply truck, and three missiles were used in an...