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Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

Abul Gheit: Arab League Passing through its Most Difficult Phase

by Sawsan Abu-Husain | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East

Cairo – Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Abul Gheit stressed that the organization is a “means to unite Arabs.” He said from Alexandria University: “The Arab League is passing through the most difficult phase since its creation due to the collapse of some...

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Sudanese FM Ibrahim Ghandour addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, October 2, 2015. (Reuters)

Sudanese FM: Dialogue with Washington Leaning towards Lifting US Sanctions

by Ahmed Younis | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East

Khartoum – The Sudanese government hopes that US economic sanctions will be lifted by July 12. This date was set by the US administration according to the executive order issued by former US President Barack Obama, stipulating lifting the sanctions partially...

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Tunisian security forces. (AFP)

Tunisia Prevented 27,000 Youths from Joining Terror Groups

by AlMunji alSaidani | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East

Tunis – Tunisia announced on Saturday that authorities had prevented over 20,000 youths from joining terrorist organizations. Interior Minister Hadi al-Majdoub said that since 2012 security forces succeeded in preventing over 27,000 youths from joining the ranks...

Clarification

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East

In our issue of Sunday 27 March 2016 we published an article headlined “Iranian Agents are active in Libya- and they are pushing it towards division”, in which we reported the findings of intelligence reports from Tripoli, which referred to an individual given the...

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Displaced Iraqis walk as they flee after a battle between the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service and ISIS militants in western Mosul, Iraq, April 22, 2017. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

Mosul Residents Flee in Droves as Iraqi Forces Advance against ISIS Strongholds

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 22, 2017 | Middle East

Hundreds of people fled Mosul on Saturday after national Iraqi forces retook two more districts in the west of the city from terror group ISIS. Families transported in busses deporting from a government checkpoint in the south of the city to camps housing more than...