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Opinion: Aleppo and the International Farce

by Tariq Alhomayed | Aug 3, 2016 | Opinion

What is happening in Syria is a real international farce, especially the crimes being committed in Aleppo and in the surrounding areas. The United Nations, America and the west are witnesses to this farce. While Assad’s regime continues to besiege Aleppo with the...

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Opinion: The Failure of the Kerry – Lavrov Agreement

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 30, 2016 | Opinion

Our newspaper published an exclusive story about the Kerry-Lavrov agreement on the Syria crisis two days ago. It summarised what the US Secretary of State John Kerry communicated to his European counterparts in Brussels, after his lengthy meetings with the Russian...

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Opinion: Iran’s Destruction of Satellite Dishes and Launching of Channels

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 27, 2016 | Opinion

The least that can be said about the Iranian authorities destroying 100,000 satellite dishes on the grounds that they breach regulations and threaten moral, cultural and social values is that this act is ridiculous. It is also evidence of the Iranian regime’s lack of...

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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov speaks during a news conference in Moscow. Photo: Reuters

Lavrov, ‘ISIS’

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 24, 2016 | Opinion

Even though U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks on bolstering cooperation between his country and Russia to take on extremist groups in Syria, namely ISIS, his counterpart Russia’s Sergey Lavrov continues to blame the U.S. 2003 invasion of Iraq for the...

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U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) at the U.S. ambassador’s residence during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Paris, France in this December 1, 2015 file photo.
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And the Riddle Remains Unsolved!

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jul 23, 2016 | Opinion

In the course of what later came to be known as the Arab Spring I wrote that Tunsia, Libya, Egypt and Syria each represents a case unique to itself, many were enraged by the statement. Recently they have come to know the validity of that statement. However, we fall...