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A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Why Would Assad Use Sarin in a War He’s Winning? To Terrify Syrians.

by Annia Ciezadlo | Apr 19, 2017 | Opinion

BEIRUT — In the summer of 1925, rebels from the Syrian countryside mounted a guerrilla uprising against French colonial rule. The French retaliated by looting, burning and carrying out massacres in villages they suspected of supporting the rebels. That October, French...

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Saudi King Salman (R) sits next to an interpreter during a meeting with US Defence Secretary James Mattis in Riyadh on April 19, 2017
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US Defense Secretary Mattis: Washington Wants a ‘Strong’ Saudi Arabia

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 19, 2017 | World

The United States wants to see a strong Saudi Arabia, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said during talks Wednesday aimed at reinvigorating the Riyadh-Washington alliance. Mattis, meeting the most powerful figures in the Saudi capital, also hinted that President Donald...

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A staff member removes the Iranian flag from the stage after a group picture with foreign ministers and representatives of Unites States, Iran, China, Russia, Britain, Germany, France and the European Union during the Iran nuclear talks at the Vienna International Center in Vienna, Austria July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Washington to Review Iran Deal

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 19, 2017 | World

United States President Donald Trump took a “prudent” step in seeking a 90-day inter-agency review of whether lifting sanctions through the Iran nuclear deal would be in the United States’ national security interests, his spokesman said on Wednesday....

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Syrian children receive treatment in the town of Maaret al-Noman, following a suspected chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, on April 4, 2017 (AFP Photo/Mohamed al-Bakour)

France to ‘Prove’ Assad Forces behind Syria ‘Chemical Attack’

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 19, 2017 | Middle East

France will produce proof “in a few days” that the regime of Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical strike on a Syrian village that killed 87 people earlier this month, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday. “We have elements that will allow...

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The former Afghanistan captain Khalida Popal with current Afghanistan player Shabnam Mabarz, who is wearing the new head-to-toe outfit with an integrated hijab. Photograph: Jan M. Olsen/AP

Khalida Popal, Afghanistan Football Pioneer: ‘If the Haters Couldn’t Stop Me, Trump Can’t’

by Louise Court | Apr 19, 2017 | Sports

Khalida Popal has paid a high price for becoming the face of the Afghanistan women’s football team. “Sometimes I still have nightmares,” she says quietly. “Those men are standing and looking at me and laughing or there is the fear that they will rape me.” It is six...