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The Iranians who Iran called for the return of after they were released by America (EPA)

Iranians Freed in the Prisoner Exchange Deal Refuse to Go to Tehran

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 22, 2016 | World

An American official acquainted with negotiations concerning the prisoner exchange deal with the Iranian authorities informed CNN on Wednesday that Washington prepared a plane to take the 7 Iranians who received pardons from the White House to Iran. However, the...

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Biden Criticizes Press Freedom in Turkey

Biden Criticizes Press Freedom in Turkey

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 22, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

ISTANBUL – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said during a trip to Turkey on Friday that intimidating the media, curtailing internet freedom and accusing academics of treason was not setting a good example in the Middle East. Speaking on a two-day visit to the NATO...

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Syria Kurds Must Be Represented in Talks

Syria Kurds Must Be Represented in Talks

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 22, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

PARIS – Syrian Kurds must be represented at peace talks in Geneva or they will fail, a Syrian Kurdish leader said on Friday. Saleh Muslim, co-chair of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), also said one of the opposition groups involved, Jaysh al-Islam, had...

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Germans Arrest Syrian National with Militant Links

Germans Arrest Syrian National with Militant Links

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 22, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

BERLIN – German police have arrested a Syrian national in the southern city of Stuttgart suspected of taking part in the kidnapping by Islamic rebels of a United Nations peacekeeper near Damascus three years ago, prosecutors said on Friday. They believe the...

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Unrest in Tunisia, Five Years After ‘Arab Spring’

Unrest in Tunisia, Five Years After ‘Arab Spring’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 22, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

KASSERINE – On Dec. 17, 2010, a young, desperate Tunisian vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in a suicide protest over unemployment and police abuse that spread revolt across the Arab world. Five years on, Ridha Yahyaoui, another young Tunisian,...