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Opinion: Yemen After a Year- Victory or Defeat?

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Apr 5, 2016 | Opinion

A year has passed since the Saudi-led Arab coalition launched a war in Yemen after the legitimate government was overthrown! The question “What is the result?” arises. Do we say that Sana’a was not liberated and that the coalition did not eradicate enemy forces? Or do...

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Director of Regional Programs, Partnerships and Integrated Solutions, Middle East and North Africa, Franck Bousquet

Global Initiative to Reconstruct Middle East, Solve Refugee Crisis- World Bank

by Mina Al-Droubi | Apr 5, 2016 | Interviews

London- Leaders of the World Bank, United Nations, and Islamic Development Bank Group pledged to work closely together in the region. They recently launched the new financing initiative to support the MENA region aimed at uniting the international community to face...

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Fighters and civilians gather around the wreckage of a Syrian warplane that was shot down in the Talat al-Iss area, south of Aleppo, Syria April 5, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Syrian Warplane Downed Near Aleppo, Pilot Captured

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 5, 2016 | Middle East

Syrian anti-Assad fighters have shot down a government warplane south of Aleppo and captured its pilot on Tuesday, a monitoring group said. The incident occurred as fighting renewed across swaths of the country threatening to upend a fragile truce. Syria’s...

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A policeman inspects the site of a car bomb near the Shi’ite al-Anoud mosque in Saudi Arabia’s city Dammam.- Reuters

Saudi Security Officer Shot Dead in Attack Claimed by ISIS

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 5, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Assailants shot dead a senior Saudi security officer west of the capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by state media. ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. Saudi state news agency SPA quoted an interior...

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Firefighter at the site of a car bomb explosion in Basra on Monday

Iraqi Government Accused of Bombing Fallujah with Explosive Barrels

by Munaf al Obeidi | Apr 5, 2016 | Middle East

Ramadi- With the growing fears of a humanitarian catastrophe in Fallujah and risks of mass death, which threatens more than 105 thousand besieged and starved citizen inside the city, government forces’ aerial and artillery bombardments continue over the crowded...