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U.N. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed

Yemen Government Brushes off U.S. Envoy’s Flawed Peace Proposal

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 30, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh- Yemen’s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi refused to receive the political roadmap for peace in Yemen put forth by the U.N. Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. The Yemeni government elaborated on the rebuff, saying that the roadmap has a poor understanding...

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Presidential Palace as seen Saturday, two days before the election of a new president/Dalati&Nohra

Lebanon: Aoun is Close to Win the Presidential Elections…His Opponents will Face Him with Blank Papers

by Youssef Diab | Oct 30, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut- The political picture of Monday’s session to elect a new President in Lebanon became clearer after Future Movement leader Saad Hariri informed Saturday the country’s political and religious references that all available facts confirm the election of MP...

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Smoke rises from a building where Taliban insurgents hide during a fire fight with Afghan security forces, in Helmand province, Afghanistan/ AP

Taliban to Asharq Al-Awsat: We Reject Secret Meetings with Qabul Government

by Mohamed Shafei | Oct 30, 2016 | World

London- Mullah Zabihullah, the official spokesman of the “Afghan Taliban” and the second man in the movement said that security measures forced leader of the Afghan Taliban, Haibatullah not to reveal his whereabouts. “We are ordered by God’s will to take all necessary...

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Anti-Houthi protesters shout slogans to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz February 11, 2015. Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

Western, Asian States Respond to Yemen’s Rebels: Mecca is a Red Line

by Arafat Madabesh and Nayef al Rasheed | Oct 30, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh, Aden – Islamic, Arab and Western reactions emerged on Saturday as a response to the ballistic missile launched last Thursday by Yemeni rebels against the Holy Mecca and which the Saudi Air Defense intercepted. The ambassadors of seven countries to Riyadh...