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Supporters of anti-immigration right-wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) take part in in demonstration rally, in reaction to mass assaults on women on New Year’s Eve, in Cologne, Germany, January 9, 2016. Placard reads: ‘ Yesterday applauded. Today grabbed’ REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Stefan Weidner Writes against Pegida

by Emile Amin | Jun 14, 2016 | Features

Cairo-The recent growing Fundamentalism of the European far right and the consequent Islamophobia have been remarkably accompanied by rational European voices seeking to fight hatred and combat ideological and intellectual extremism in some powerful European...

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Smoke raises behind an ISIS flag REUTERS/Stringer

People, Governments Push Terrorist Organizations to Change Ideologies

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | Jun 14, 2016 | Features

 The dream of “Khilafah”, speech in the name of religion, and Jihad for martyrdom and paradise, are no more a winning card for extremist groups to influence minds and recruit new members.  Therefore, the recent losses of these groups on ground urged them to make...

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Iranians gather outside Emamzadeh Saleh mosque in Tajrish square in northern Tehran on June 7, 2016, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Atta Kenare/AFP

Bloody Clashes between IRGC, Opposition Forces in Baluchistan and Kurdistan

by Adil Alsalmi | Jun 14, 2016 | Middle East

London-Severe clashes between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and opposition forces rocked the tense areas of Kurdistan and Baluchistan on Monday. In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, sources close to the opposition rejected all information provided by state media...

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U.N. Secretary-General Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (C) opens the Yemen peace talks in Magglingen, Switzerland, Dec. 15, 2015.

U.N. Envoy’s Peace Efforts Inhibited by Insurgency’s Obstinacy and Central Bank Dilemma

by Arafat Madabish | Jun 14, 2016 | Middle East

Cairo- A meeting session called together on Monday by U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and including four members from each of the government’s delegation and the insurgency delegation (Houthis- followers of the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh)...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) welcomes Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman prior to their meeting on June 13, 2016, in Washington, DC. Molley Riley/AFP

U.S. Strategic Adviser: Riyadh Will Remain Washington’s Strategic Ally

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Jun 14, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Riyadh-Strategic adviser to former U.S. President George W. Bush asserted to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper the strategic relations between Riyadh and Washington at the economic, political and security levels, adding that the outcomes of the joint Gulf-U.S. summit lately...