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Left to right: Late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (R) walks with his cousin Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam, Gaddaf Al-Dam, Muammar Gaddafi (C) walks with former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (R) in Cairo, Egypt, in the early 1970s. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Remains of Muammar Gaddafi’s chemical weapons arsenal in the desert. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Libya militias capture chemical weapons: army official
Jufra District, Libya, Asharq Al-Awsat—Militias in Libya have seized chemical weapons from arsenals located in the southern and central provinces of the country that used to belong to former leader Muammar Gaddafi, military sources told Asharq Al-Awsat. A Libyan...Caption:
Egyptian riot policemen stand guard behind barbed wire outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (AFP Photo/ Khaled Desouki)
Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda planned attacks in Egypt: report
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood appealed to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri to send 3,000 Islamist volunteers to fight government forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, an Egyptian security report claims. The report which Asharq Al-Awsat...Caption:
Rain clouds loom over the skyline of Giza, Egypt,on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
The Arab Spring’s Improbable Refugees
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—In a small hotel on Cairo’s Shahab Street the broken dreams of the Arab Spring gather. Three men congregate in the lobby. They watch a Premier League game and share stories of how they lost everything. The hotel guests include Khaled, a Yemeni...Caption:
Smoke billows from the site of clashes on the road leading to the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on July 20, 2014.
(AFP Photo/Mahmud Turkia)