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An overall view of a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, at the United Nations September 25, 2016 in New York. Bryan R. Smith / AFP

Fresh Air Strikes Pound Aleppo as Supplies Dwindle

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 26, 2016 | Middle East

Warplanes again pounded rebel-held areas of Syria’s Aleppo on Monday as residents warned of increasing shortages of food and medicine after an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council on the country ended with no action following the collapse of the...

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Majed Hattar (R), brother of the Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, speaks to the media during a sit-in in the town of Al-Fuheis near Amman, Jordan, September 25, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Jordanian Writer Shot Dead outside Court

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Sep 26, 2016 | Media

Amman- A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial in Abdali, Amman. Hattar was transferred to a hospital, but he soon passed away. A Jordanian security officer said that the gunman was arrested. His name is...

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Smoke rises from the Syrian border town of Jarablus as it is pictured from the Turkish town of Karkamis, in the southeastern Gaziantep province, Turkey, August 24, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkey Conditions Participation in Raqqa Operations with Exclusion of Kurds

by Said Abdul Razzak | Sep 26, 2016 | Middle East

Ankara– Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his nation is willing to assist the U.S.-led operations to liberate Raqqa from ISIS, but only as part of a coalition and if Kurdish forces are not involved. “Our foreign minister and military authorities are in...

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In this May 29, 2014 file photo, Syrian refugee students sit in their classroom at a Lebanese public school where only Syrian students attend classes in the afternoon in Kaitaa village in north Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

World Bank Official: Lebanon, Jordan doing a Big Favor to International Community

by Heba El Koudsy | Sep 26, 2016 | Interviews

New York-Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Hafez Ghanem said that the World Bank was currently assisting countries hosting large numbers of refugees in providing good education to children and fighting unemployment. In an interview...

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Journal of NY Bombing Suspect Bear Traces of ISIS, Qaeda (screenshot via the House Homeland Security Committee)

Journal of NY Bombing Suspect Bear Traces of ISIS, Qaeda

by Ellen Nakashima, Matt Zapotosky, Sari Horwitz and Mark Berma | Sep 26, 2016 | World

When Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested Monday, investigators recovered a blood-stained journal that contained an eclectic mix of terrorist inspirations, including Al-Qaeda and the ISIS. In the journal, which Rahami had with him during his shootout with police, the...