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Tikrit, located 160 kilometer’s north of Baghdad, was the second city to fall to ISIS in 2014 as the jihadists swept through large areas north and west of the capital (AFP Photo/)

Gun, Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 12 in Iraq’s Tikrit

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 24, 2016 | Middle East

Militants killed 12 people in a shooting and a suicide bombing Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, which was recaptured from ISIS last year, police said. Tikrit was seized by ISIS in June 2014, but the city has largely been spared the attacks that have...

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Erdogan Accuses the US of Arming Syria’s Kurds

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2016 | Middle East

There are new signs of tension between Ankara and Washington after the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the US administration of supplying the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria with...

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Ahmad Rahami’s Father: I Reported Him to the FBI

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2016 | World

The father of Ahmad Khan Rahami who was arrested on Monday after exchanging fire with the police and is suspected of carrying out two bomb attacks, one in New York and the second in the state of New Jersey, that wounded 31 people, said that he had informed the Federal...

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Venezuelan citizens buy goods at the local supermarket to take advantage of the temporary border opening in Cucuta, Colombia, July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Manuel Hernandez

Colombia’s Minister of Commerce: Our Country Welcomes Saudi Investments

by Luisa Polido | Sep 24, 2016 | Business, Interviews

Bogotá- Thanks to the historical agreement between the Colombian government and the rebels, a 50 years old conflict reached an end. This contributed in introducing Colombia to a new economic phase which will result in a tangible economic development and increased...

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Opinion: The Week That May Change History

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 24, 2016 | Opinion

The special relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia that spans more than seventy years now faces a difficult test after a draft bill allowing the families of those killed in the September 11 attacks to sue the Saudi Arabian government and its...