by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 5, 2010 | Interviews, Media
Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat- About eleven years ago, the Arab Radio and Television Network (ART) announced the establishment of the IQRAA Islamic satellite channel as the first specialized Islamic channel, thereby announcing the entry of a new kind of satellite channels...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 3, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Basra, Asharq Al-Awsat- A local official in Basra, southern Iraq, the country’s largest oil-producing city, confirmed intelligence reports indicating that the Al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq is planning to target Basra’s oil facilities in order to undermine...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 2, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar, rejected any connection between the launch of direct negotiations in Washington DC, and a terrorist attack on Route 60, which links the ‘Kiryat Arba’ settlement to the city of Hebron in the southern West...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 1, 2010 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat-In an exclusive interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, the Taliban’s media spokesman, Mullah Qari Yousef Ahmadi, highlights what he described as a psychological war that is being waged in the western media against the Taliban. Mullah Ahmadi...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Asharq al-Awsat can exclusively reveal from official sources that negotiations between the Iraqiya coalition, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the National Coalition, led by Ammar al-Hakim, President of the Supreme Islamic Council,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh believes that the royal decree by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz calling for the unification of fatwas and restricting their issuance to...