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Hamas leader Yehia Sinwar attends a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip January 7, 2016. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Hamas: Electing Sinwar Will Not Change our Policies

by Kifah Ziboun | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – Soon after Hamas elected Yahya Sinwar as its leader in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media portrayed him as the “Sheikh of murders” promoting for prominent war. But Hamas responded to these allegations and assured that the movement’s policy will not change...

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Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj addresses a joint news conference with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (unseen) at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Sarraj: Rejection of Dialogue Increases Suffering of Libyans

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo- Libya’s Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj has unveiled the reasons behind the failure to hold a tripartite meeting that was set to take place in Cairo on Tuesday to resolve the Libyan political crisis. “General Khalifa Haftar and Speaker of Tobruk-based...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Gali Tibbon/Pool

Palestinians Warn Trump Against Abandoning Two-State Solution

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East

Palestinians warned United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday against walking out on a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel after a White House official said peace did not necessarily have to involve Palestinian statehood. On Tuesday, a senior White...

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A 2014 image taken from a propaganda video allegedly shows the leader of the ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AFP/Getty Images)

As ISIS Loses Territory, it Seeks to Survive Online

by Greg Miller | Feb 15, 2017 | Features

Washington – Al-Qaeda’s main affiliate in Iraq avoided extinction at the hands of U.S. and Iraqi forces a decade ago by backing away from military engagements and moving the remnants of its network underground until its reemergence as ISIS. That successor...

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Tanks and armored vehicles of the Saudi-led coalition began deployment on the outskirts of the Yemeni port city of Aden on 3 August (AFP)

Analysts: Arab Coalition Averted Yemen, Region Great Risks

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 15, 2017 | Middle East

Yemen – The Saudi-led Arab Coalition is playing a significant role in supporting the legitimacy in Yemen, strategic experts stressed. Yemeni analyst Najib Ghallab and political academic Hussein Laqwer imagined how the future of Yemen would have been hadn’t been for...