by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Feb 2, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East
Amid efforts set to restore life in Al Anbar Governorate after driving out all ISIS militants, the process of making the close-to-leveled Iraqi area habitable once again proves quite difficult. With an estimated 85 percent comprehensive destruction that ruptured...
by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Dec 30, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East
ISIS did not leave one meter in the city without explosives that are sown in the streets, homes and shops, and have to be detonated from afar or else, they will blow whoever comes close. After seven months from being taken over by ISIS militants, the first look on the...
by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Dec 30, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East
Informed sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that exclusive lists of terrorist organisations fighting in Syria that are supposed to be released in mid- January after international coordination of intelligence include Shi’ite factions and figures; some of whom are prominent...
by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Dec 25, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East
Well informed political sources revealed that Iran withdrew Revolutionary Guard units in Syria, moving them to Iraq after Russian- Iranian dispute escalated in Syria. An Iraqi political source, who requested anonymity, told Asharq Al-Awsat that Russia wants the Syrian...
by Manaf Al-Obaidi | Sep 15, 2015 | Middle East
Anbar, Asharq Al-Awsat—The United States is seeking to give Anbar tribes a greater military role in the fight against the Islamic States of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) whose fighters seized much of the western province in early 2014, an informed tribal source has said....
