Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

Media ID: 55317537
Caption:

In this Saturday, August 10, 2013, photo, a Pakistani Taliban militant looks at main road of Shawal in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

An Afghan Father-Son Tale Takes a Fatal Turn, but Does Not End

by Mujib Mashal and Zahra Nader | Sep 12, 2016 | World

Kabul-When Abdul Basir, an Afghan government militia commander, and his son Said Muhammad, who had been a Taliban fighter, made peace last month, after several attempts to kill each other, it was clear their story would not end there. For two lives so entirely shaped...

Media ID: 55358181
Caption:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she walks from her daughter’s apartment building Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Clinton should Stop Pretending she’s not Elite

by David Ignatius | Sep 12, 2016 | Opinion

Despite Hillary Clinton’s recent slip in the polls, she has a big political opportunity, even though some of her advisers might regard it as a curse: She can run as the candidate who represents the “mainstream” leadership of both parties and knows how to fix our...

Media ID: 55356373
Caption:

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. Photo by Scott Audette/Reuters

US Media Learning to Live with the Trump Nightmare

by Amir Taheri | Sep 12, 2016 | World

London-By any standards Donald J Trump, the Republican Party nominee for the US presidency is a hard character to cast. This is the lesson that, with less than two months to Election Day, the American media are just beginning to grapple with. The result is a mixture...