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Ambassador Richard Burt (Photo by Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

Burt: Trump Will Not Allow Iran to Achieve Victory

by Huda Al Husseini | Dec 18, 2016 | Interviews

London – U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt, who worked as an advisor to former U.S. Presidents Georges H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, said that President-elect Donald Trump would not allow Iran to achieve victory in Syria and Iraq. In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat...

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President-elect Donald J. Trump in Des Moines, Iowa, this month. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

Pax Americana Is Over

by Roger Cohen | Dec 18, 2016 | Opinion

The thing about “The Apprentice” is you could turn it off. Now we get to watch Donald Trump all the time. There’s nowhere to hide. I was in Papua New Guinea recently. His name kept coming up. The appointments cascade at reality-show speed. Rick Perry to head the...

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Donald Trump at a campaign event in Florida the Saturday before election day. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

The Tainted Election

by Paul Krugman | Dec 18, 2016 | Opinion

The C.I.A., according to The Washington Post, has now determined that hackers working for the Russian government worked to tilt the 2016 election to Donald Trump. This has actually been obvious for months, but the agency was reluctant to state that conclusion before...

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Former Brazilian soccer star Zico (L), the new national coach for the Iraqi football team, trains the team in Arbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad August 28, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ )

Sectarian Slogans Push Two Kurdish Teams to Withdraw from Iraqi Premier League

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 18, 2016 | Middle East, Sports

Baghdad- Kurdish teams Erbil and Zakho announced withdrawal from the Iraqi Premier League following the match between Erbil and Najaf team, Friday. During the match, the fans were reiterating anti-Kurds calls. Najaf team hosted the match on Friday and won 1-0, however...

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Omar Osama bin Laden was estranged from his father (NASSER NASSER/AP)

Osama Bin Laden’s Son: Misunderstanding Behind Egypt’s Entry Denial

by Mohamed Hassan Shaban | Dec 18, 2016 | Middle East

Cairo – Egyptian authorities have denied entry to the son of former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a local security source said Saturday. In exclusive comments to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, Omar bin Laden said that there might be a misunderstanding behind the...