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Saudi toddler Jawad Al Dagher, Asharq Al-Awsat Archives

Qatif Terrorist Shooting Killed the Budding Life of Two-Year-Old Jawad

by Obaid Al-Suhaymi | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Dammam – Saudi toddler Jawad al-Dagher met an ill fate at the hands of terrorists who showered his father’s vehicle with bullets in Al-Awamiyah in Qatif governorate in the Eastern Province. Covered in his own blood after sustaining a head injury Jawad did not...

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French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1979. (AFP)

France’s Cultural Elite Lose their Historic Clout in the City of Light

by Nada Hoteit | May 15, 2017 | Features

London – Political observers are in almost complete agreement that the social movement that accompanied the recent French presidential elections led to unprecedented changes in the political structure of the country not witnessed since the end of World War II. At the...

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L), Donald Trump (R). AP

Arming Syria’s Kurds to Top Trump, Erdogan Meeting

by Saeed Abdelrazek | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara- Developments in Syria, especially with regard to the US decision to arm Kurds in the framework of speeding up the process of liberating Raqqa from ISIS control, have imposed themselves as one of the main issues on the agenda of Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

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Girls stand at the entrance to their tent at a camp for internally displaced people in the northwestern city of Sa’da, Yemen January 30, 2017. (Photo by Naif Rahma/Reuters)

Militias Launch Campaign to Kidnap Civilians in Sa’ada

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

Taiz – Saada Media Center announced on Sunday that Houthi and Saleh militias have commenced a campaign to kidnap citizens in Sakin and Razeh. In its statement, the center mentioned that “militias have kidnapped the pharmacist Abdulsalam Mansour al-Natih in Sakin...

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Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr and Deputy Prime Minister Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi arrive in Berlin, Germany, Saba news agency

Amended UN Roadmap for Yemen: Insurgency Must Retreat from Hodeidah 1st

by Badr Al-Qahtani | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

London- Moving away from a comprehensive insurgency withdrawal from Sana’a to Hodeida, the United Nation’s roadmap for peace in Yemen is now focused on renewing negotiations which have reached a stalemate last August. The UN now adopted an approach based on...