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Opinion: The Problems Facing America’s Republicans and Britain’s Labour

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 2, 2016 | Opinion

America had an exceptional few days last week as the Republican Party officially adopted the billionaire right-wing firebrand Donald Trump as its presidential candidate for next November’s race to the White House. In the meantime, across the Atlantic, where the vote...

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Michael Delefortrie, who joined a terrorist group in Belgium
and travelled to Syria to become a jihadi fighter, is pictured here
after his return to the E.U., leaving a court in Antwerp./PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCOIS LENOIR / REUTERS

ISIS Aggravates Violence in West while Losing Control in Syria, Iraq

by Mona Helmi | Aug 2, 2016 | Features

In line with the bloody operation in Nice, ISIS’s weekly magazine “al-Naba” published an editorial entitled “Crusaders- Illusions in Caliphate’s Era”, in which it urged from the change that will occur around the world after the announcement of Caliphate’s return, and...

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Iraq’s President Fouad Massoum (L), Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (R) and Ammar al-Hakim (C), leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), attend a conference dialogue among religious sects in Baghdad January 31, 2015. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Iraq’s Defense Minister Accuses Deputies of Corruption

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Baghdad- Iraq’s Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, accompanied with prominent officers, has entered on Monday the Iraqi parliament to be questioned over corruption allegations brought forward by Iraqi parliamentary Alia Nasif. There, Obeidi dropped a bomb when...

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Pro-Erdogan supporters wave Turkish flags at Kizilay square in Ankara on July 18, 2016 during a demonstration in support to the Turkish government following a failed coup attempt. (AFP / ILYAS AKENGIN)

Turkey Admits to Unfair Post-Coup Arrests

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara – Turkish government admitted for the first time to unfair treatment in the post-coup arrests. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said commenting on the tens of thousands who have been discharged from their positions: “There must definitely be some among them who...

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Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil speaks during a joint news conference with Iraq?s acting Foreign Minister Hussein Shahristani (not pictured) in Baghdad, August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Ali Abbas/Pool (IRAQ – Tags: POLITICS) – RTR42T54

Increasing Divisions inside Aoun’s FPM in wake of Internal Vote

by Paula Astih | Aug 2, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut – Internal divisions inside Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement – led by General Michel Aoun and presided over by his son-in-law, Foreign Affairs Minister Gebran Bassil – have drastically increased in the wake of party elections aimed at choosing...