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RPG in al-Awamiyah

by Salman Al-dossary | May 18, 2017 | Opinion

This time, al-Awamiyah witnessed a striking event with terrorist groups launching an RPG missile in the area killing one Saudi policeman and injuring five others. Surely, clashes with security forces and terrorizing citizens are no new incidents to this organization,...

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Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Turki Al-Sudairi. (Asharq Al-Awsat archives)

Turki Al-Sudairi’s Will

by Salman Al-dossary | May 16, 2017 | Opinion

There are several editors in chief, several journalists and several column writers. Rare are those however who had a vision and who were able to properly read the future and be confronted with attacks at the beginning of their career and yet after so much hardship be...

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Yemani protesters wave flags and march through the streets during a demonstration demanding renewed independence in the southern city of Aden on November 30, 2014. Yemeni police shot dead a protester and wounded four others as separatists marched towards the governorate building in the key south city Aden, activists said. AFP PHOTO /STR

‘The Aden Declaration,’ Dangers of a Southern Secession in Yemen

by Salman Al-dossary | May 14, 2017 | Opinion

Southern separatist ambitions in Yemen are not recent news but have been in the backdrop of the Gulf country’s 1994 civil war. At the time, one of the vital factors in stoking conflict between the north and south was the role played by the then president Ali Abdullah...

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US President Donald Trump – Reuters photo

Trump to Jeddah… Message Delivered?!

by Salman Al-dossary | May 7, 2017 | Opinion

It is normal for any president to choose his inaugural visit based on his country’s interests. However, if this was done by US President Donald Trump then no doubt that the state he chooses will have the lion’s stake from these interests. This is what Trump did when...

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Members of the Iranian revolutionary guard march during a parade REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Final Chapter of Dialogue with Iran

by Salman Al-dossary | May 4, 2017 | Opinion

While Iran is fighting Saudi Arabia and Gulf states through its militias in Yemen and directly in Bahrain, and combats for its interests in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, reconciliation and peacemaking attempts continued between Iran and the Gulf States, prominently Saudi...