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In this August 16, 2014 file photo Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi smiles during a meeting with Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Baghdad, Iraq. (Reuters/Hadi Mizban/Pool)

PM Abadi no different from predecessor Maliki, says top Iraqi official

by Ma'ad Fayad | Jun 14, 2015 | Middle East

London and Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s government continues to sideline confessional and ethnic minorities in the country, according to a senior Iraqi official. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday, the official, who heads a prominent political bloc in the...

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Iraqi special forces and locals stand outside a hospital in Nasiriyah where Iraq’s former foreign minister Tariq Aziz died on June 5, 2015. (AFP/Haidar Mohammed Ali)

Tariq Aziz’s son criticizes Baghdad’s handling of father’s death

by Ma'ad Fayad | Jun 6, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ziad Aziz, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein-era foreign minister Tariq Aziz, has strongly criticized Baghdad’s handling of his father’s death, saying that the Iraqi government did not inform the family that he had passed away. Tariq Aziz died...

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Ibrahim Dashishah in Geneva. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Saudi film producer takes on world cinema

by Ma'ad Fayad | Apr 16, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Young Saudi businessman Ibrahim Dashishah has embarked on his filmmaking career in world cinema with a determination to create movies “that have a humane character and carry reformative messages in the English language.” In less than a...

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Nineveh governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi (center) walks through streets of Mosul carrying a rifle and flanked by armed bodyguards before ISIS takeover of the city. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Military planning for liberation of Mosul complete: Nineveh governor

by Ma'ad Fayad | Jan 16, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Planning for the liberation of Mosul from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters is complete, Nineveh Governor Atheel Al-Nujaifi told Asharq Al-Awsat on Thursday, adding that a long-awaited Iraqi military offensive to recapture the...

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File photo of Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr: Arab states must embrace Iraq

by Ma'ad Fayad | Nov 1, 2014 | Interviews

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prominent Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr said that there is more that unites Sunnis and Shi’ites than divides them, calling on all Muslims to stand together against the threat of terrorist and extremist ideology as...