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Iraqi pro-government forces who are taking part in the operation against ISIS militants. Reuters

Popular Mobilization Militias Move towards Tal Afar with Eye on Syria

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

Qayyarah- Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces militias said they started an offensive on Saturday against ISIS positions in the town of Tal Afar west of Mosul, assisting in a campaign to take back the city. Earlier announcements by the militias on...

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A woman holds a flag of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah

Scotland Yard: ‘Lifting Hezbollah’s Flags in Ashura Violates the Law’

by Mohamed Shafei | Oct 30, 2016 | World

London- Scotland Yard police continues the investigation it has launched on lifting the so-called “Hezbollah” flags by a number of demonstrators who marked Ashura Day on Wednesday, October 12. Asharq Al-Awsat received a statement issued by Scotland Yard on Friday...

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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...