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Asharq Al-Awsat Wins Best Photograph in Pilgrimage Award

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 19, 2016 | Media

Riyadh-Asharq Al-Awsat London-based newspaper won the” best photography” award in 2015 Hajj season for submitting photography of Al-Khayf Mosque taken by the newspaper’s photographer Ahmed Hashad. The photo was published on the front page of the newspaper on September...

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Taiz Military Council: ‘Coup Militia Plants Landmines in Taiz, Countryside’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 19, 2016 | Middle East

Taiz-Chief of operations in Taiz’s Military Council Colonel Abdulaziz al-Majidi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that hostilities are going on in most of the fighting fronts in Taiz, noting that Houthi and Saleh rebel militias are continuously bombing neighborhoods in...

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Members of the Saudi security forces take part in a military parade in preparation for the annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca September 28, 2014. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Saudi Authorities Thwart 4 ISIS-Linked Terrorist Operations

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 19, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

Saudi authorities have arrested three cells linked to the ISIS terrorist group, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) cited the Spokesman of Ministry of Interior on Monday. Following months of monitoring terrorist threats jeopardizing the Kingdom’s security, security...

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10 New All-Female Communication Complexes in Saudi Arabia

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 19, 2016 | Technology

Riyadh – Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs announced the establishment of ten new all-female communication complexes in Saudi Arabia. This comes following the ministerial decision of Saudization of the sale and maintenance of mobile telephones and their...

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Revelers celebrate with a sparkler near the White House after President Barack Obama announced that U.S. authorities have recovered the dead body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the early morning hours in Washington, May 2, 2011. (REUTERS)

These Students Didn’t Know Bin Laden Was Dead. How Did We Get so Clueless about News?

by Margaret Sullivan | Sep 19, 2016 | Media

Veteran journalist Alan Miller tells the story of the high school students who, years after the fact, didn’t know that Osama bin Laden had been killed. These were seniors, no less — in a journalism class at a well-regarded New York City charter school. “Their reaction...