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A man takes a picture as the Tribute in Light illuminates the New York City night sky on Sep 10, 2017, on the eve of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. (Photo: AFP/ Kena Betancur)

After Sixteen Years, 9/11 Still Casts Its Shadow Over New York

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2017 | World

New York- It’s a typical late summer weekend, and New York’s Times Square is packed with tourists from around the world, snapping pictures beneath the commercial hub’s iconic neon billboards and watched closely by a heavy contingent of police. Four...

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A display at the National September 11 Memorial Museum shows the 9/11 hijackers, AFP

‘JASTA,’ 9/11 Allegations…The Legal Battle

by Salman Al-dossary | Mar 23, 2017 | Opinion

As previously foreseen, the first of a kind legal battle made possible by the United States Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) began. Families of 850 victims whose lives were claimed by the 9/11 terror attacks, next to the families of 1,500 injured on...

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The 9/11 attacks resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people [Reuters]

Iran Refuses to Compensate for 9/11 Atrocities

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 7, 2017 | World

Iran, labeling it as an act of ‘injustice’, rebuffed on Tuesday attempts by United States Lawyers to seize its overseas assets as compensation for the victims of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The US Supreme Court ruled last year that $2.1 billion frozen in a...

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Opinion: Rewarding Iran and Punishing Saudi Arabia

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 30, 2016 | Opinion

No one expected Washington to make two important decisions that oppose what US policies over the last forty years have stood for in the same year. Rewarding Iran through the JCPOA nuclear agreement to end sanctions and holding Saudi Arabia accountable through the...

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AV-8B Harrier II from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit launches from the USS Boxer (LHD 4) during its first day of striking ISIS held positions in Iraq from the Arabia Gulf

Opinion: Extremism Before and After 9/11

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jun 19, 2016 | Opinion

Most of what is written and said about “extremist Islamists” today is very different from what was written about them in the recent past. Most western commentators and the majority of Arab intellectuals used to classify extremist groups like Al-Qaeda as movements that...