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Jordanian security vehicles seen near the General Intelligence directorate offices near al Baqaa Refugee Camp, north of Amman, Jordan, June 6, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Jordan’s State Security Court Rules against 9 Suspects of Involvement with Terror Groups

by Mohamed Al-Daameh | Jan 25, 2017 | Middle East

Amman- Jordan’s State Security Court ruled on Tuesday against eight nationals and a Palestinian arrested under suspicions of involvement with terror groups and pledging allegiance to ultra-hardline group ISIS. The verdicts sentenced each to a decade in hard labor....

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Parliament members give the newly-formed cabinet a vote of confidence in Beirut March 20, 2014. Lebanon’s parliament gave a newly-formed cabinet a vote of confidence on Thursday, ending almost a year of political deadlock during which the country has been pulled further into the civil war in neighbouring Syria. REUTERS/Sharif Karim (LEBANON – Tags: POLITICS) – RTR3HXW6

Lebanon: Jumblat Rallies against Proportional Electoral Law

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 25, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Progressive Socialist Party Leader MP Walid Jumblat has maintained steady efforts to hamper any attempt to adopt a parliamentary electoral law that would be based on the proportional system. Jumblat, who had voiced his concern over the fate of the Druze...

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Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Sedat Onal, left, and Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov shake hands, as Russia’s special envoy on Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Jaber Ansari, right, shake hands and UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura stand during Astana talks. AP

Moscow Submits Draft of New Syria Constitution to Opposition

by Taha Abed alWahed | Jan 25, 2017 | Middle East

Moscow – Despite all confirmations that Astana talks will only address military aspect related to implementing ceasefire in Syria, the Russian delegation participating in the Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital submitted a solution for the Syrian...

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Soldiers stand guard in front of the central train station in Brussels. AFP/Getty

7 Suspects Held after Brussels Counter-terror Raids

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 25, 2017 | World

Police in Belgium on Wednesday were holding seven people for questioning after raids in the Brussels region as part of an ongoing counter-terrorism operation, prosecutors said. The searches of eight houses were linked to returning jihadi fighters from Syria and...

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Opinion: Astana Talks – Low Expectations and Different Calculations

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jan 25, 2017 | Opinion

In the aftermath of the New Year’s bloody terrorist attack in Istanbul, several official announcements were made, each with a different version as to what exactly happened and who the terrorist was. Unfortunately, it was clear though that there were many security...