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Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam in Beirut, in February 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Lebanon PM: I fear for Lebanon and everything in it

by Thair Abbas | Jun 3, 2015 | Interviews

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam has cautioned that now is not the time for political bickering among his country’s parties and that consensus is desperately needed to steer Lebanon away from crisis. The small Mediterranean republic...

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In this photo provided by the Turkish prime minister’s press office, Pro-Kurdish legislator Sırrı Süreyya Önder, (R), and Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan speak after a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on February 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Prime Minister’s Press Office)

PKK leader calls on movement to take “historic” decision and end armed conflict with Turkey

by Thair Abbas | Mar 1, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut and Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish armed separatist movement the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on Saturday called on members of the PKK to take an “historic” decision and end a decades-long armed insurgency...

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Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Walid Jumblatt: Al-Nusra Front are not terrorists

by Thair Abbas | Feb 26, 2015 | Interviews

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt has traditionally played the role of kingmaker in Lebanese politics. However, nine months after the end of the presidential term of Michel Suleiman, there is still no new president in Beirut’s...

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A picture made available on February 23, 2015 shows a digger working near a Turkish flag at the new site for the tomb of Suleyman Shah, near the Esme region in Syria, on February 22, 2015. (EPA/Mursel Coban/Depo Photos)

Turkey informed ISIS of plan to evacuate tomb, soldiers: official source

by Thair Abbas | Feb 23, 2015 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkey informed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) of Saturday’s operation to evacuate 40 of its soldiers in northern Syria and relocate the tomb of a revered Turkish figure, sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday. Around 570 Turkish...

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Emrullah İşler, former deputy PM of Turkey and President Erdoğan’s chief adviser on Libyan (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Erdoğan aide: Turkey’s role in Libya subject of smear campaign

by Thair Abbas | Feb 17, 2015 | Interviews

Istanbul, Asharq Al-Awsat—Prior to 2011 Turkey was enjoying a resurgence in its relationship with its neighbors in the region and its popularity on the Arab street after years in the doldrums. But with the eruption of the wave of protests and revolutions dubbed the...