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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
