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Participants in the Fatah congress in Ramallah clap and cheer before a speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Reuters

Fatah Picks Deputy Leader to Mahmoud Abbas

by Kafah Zaboun | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah-Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has chosen Mahmoud al-Aloul as deputy party leader. Aloul is a member of the central committee of Fatah, which approved the decision amid criticism by supporters of Prisoner Marwan Barghouti, who was...

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Muslim worshippers gather after a suicide bomber detonated a device near the security headquarters of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, July 4, 2016. REUTERS/Handout

Interior Ministry Official: Terrorist Threats against Saudi Arabia are not Over

by Abdul Hadi Habtor | Feb 17, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Riyadh – Maj. Gen. Bassam Attia, director of the Investigations and Strategic Planning Center of the Interior Ministry, said that Saudi Arabia was facing continuous threats by terrorist organizations of religious nature. Attia was speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat...

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Retired Vice-Admiral Robert Harward is a 60-year-old former Navy Seal – Reuters

Vice Admiral Robert Harward Turns Down National Security Adviser Job

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 17, 2017 | World

Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to be the new national security adviser, a senior White House official said on Thursday. Harward who is a senior executive at Lockheed Martin, was offered the job after Michael Flynn...

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A boy runs as he rushes away from a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus. Photo: Reuters

New U.N. Team to Look into Syria War Crimes

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

Geneva- A new body is being set up at the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, U.N. officials and diplomats said on Thursday. The General Assembly voted to establish the mechanism in December and U.N. Secretary-General...

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Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, on the ground after being shot at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. AP

Another Suspect Detained in Russian Envoy’s Murder in Ankara

by Saeed Abdelrazek | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara- Turkish police have detained another suspect as part of the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov in December last year. A total of three people, including two police officers, were detained in the case prior to...