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ISIS fighters in Mosul, Iraq. Reuters

Col. Steve Warren: We Captured ISIS Chemical Weapons Official

by Heba El Koudsy | May 19, 2016 | Middle East

Washington- Pentagon spokesman Matthew Allen said that ISIS has lost control in several areas of Iraq and Syria, stressing that the organization has been suffering from progressive defeats and hasn’t carried out effective attacks in months. Allen told Asharq Al-Awsat...

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EgyptAir passenger plane

EgyptAir Plane Disappears from Radar, Terror Not Ruled Out

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 19, 2016 | Middle East

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said, amid fears that it has crashed into the sea as Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to rule out any explanation for...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with Dr. Ali Akbar Velayati

Iran’s IRGC Says Many Iranians Have Volunteered to Fight In Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 19, 2016 | Middle East

ANKARA- Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) revealed on Wednesday that many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of al-Assad regime, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Shi’ite-dominated Iran is Assad’s main regional...