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Opinion: Ghannouchi and Hezbollah Terrorism

by Tariq Alhomayed | Mar 8, 2016 | Opinion

In an attempt to justify the statements that he made after the Gulf states and the Council of Arab Interior Ministers classified Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation, the leader of the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which was originally inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood in...

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Spokesman for Iran’s Joint Armed Forces Staff Masoud Jazayeri speaks during a news conference in Tehran January 30, 2012. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/Files

Official Says Iran Could Send Military Advisers to Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 8, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

A senior Iranian military official signaled on Tuesday that Iran could send military advisers to Yemen to back the Shi’ite Houthi group in fighting a Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s legitimate government. In an interview with the Iranian Tasnim news...

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Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives for a news conference at a mosque outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this July 5, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Olivia Harris/Files

Malaysia Says ISIS Plotted to Kidnap PM Najib Last Year

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 8, 2016 | World

Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today revealed in Parliament that there have been several plots by the ISIS militant group to abduct top political figures in the country, including Prime Minister Najib Razak, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, and Zahid himself....

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Clinton and Sanders in a democratic debate in Flint, Michigan

Fierce Democratic Debate between Clinton, Sanders in Michigan

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 8, 2016 | World

Washington- Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses, the latest contest in the battle to be the Democratic presidential candidate. With 91% of the vote counted, Vermont Senator Sanders is polling 64%, while former Secretary of State Clinton has...

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Iranian-made Emad missile is displayed during a ceremony marking the 37th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, in Tehran February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi

Iran Conducts Ballistic Missile Test Defying Sanctions

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 8, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) fired several ballistic missiles from silos across the country during a military exercise on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported, defying recent U.S. sanctions on its missile program. The test was...