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King Salman Orders Reformation of National Consultative Assembly

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 2, 2016 | Saudi Arabia

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued several royal decrees on Friday. Among the orders was the reformation of the kingdom’s Shoura Council. The Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia, also known as Majlis Ash-Shura or Shura Council, is...

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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu answers a question during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, August 24, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkish FM Calls for Immediate Truce in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria on Friday, describing the situation in Aleppo as critical and saying that regime head Bashar al-Assad was unfit to rule. Asked about Assad at a news conference in Beirut, Cavusoglu...

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1600 Peshmerga Soldiers Killed in Battle for Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East

The Peshmerga ministry spokesman Halgurd Hekmat revealed on Thursday that 1600 Peshmerga soldiers have been killed since the major offensive to regain the city of Mosul began on the 17th of October. Hikmat added that nearly 10,000 members of the Peshmerga were wounded...

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Tunisian policemen patrol the roof of a police station, after Monday’s attack by Islamist fighters on an army and police barracks in the town of Ben Guerdan, Tunisia, near the Libyan border March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisia Neutralized 160 Terror Cells in 2016

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 2, 2016 | Middle East

Tunisian security forces dismantled 160 terror cells in the first 10 months of this year, about 45 percent more than during the whole of 2015, the interior ministry said on Friday. Tunisia has been the only Arab state to achieve a relatively peaceful democratic...

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Liberating Mosul: The 5 Weaknesses of the Battle Plan

by Amir Taheri | Dec 2, 2016 | Features

If he is to deliver on his promise to liberate Mosul by the end of this year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi has only a few weeks to meet the deadline. As things stand on the many different fronts of this strange war, however, signs are that Iraq’s third largest...