by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 6, 2017 | Middle East
Mosul – Men, women and children walk down a main road in west Mosul with arms full and carts loaded, but they are not among the people fleeing fighting in the city. The operation to retake Mosul from ISIS has pushed hundreds of thousands of residents to flee...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 9, 2017 | Middle East
London – During the years of the Syrian war that erupted in 2011 as many areas were besieged by all conflict parties, the country has witnessed several evacuations involving tens of thousands of civilians and fighters, especially from the strongholds of the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 25, 2017 | Features
Qamishli, Syria- Islam Maytat thought marrying an Afghan-British businessman was her ticket to a new life as a fashionista in London. Instead, she became a widow living under ISIS rule in Syria. At just 23, the young Moroccan spent three traumatic years in northern...
by Tariq Alhomayed | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion
Yesterday, we discussed Bashar al-Assad’s trouble following the US strike and his denial of the town of Khan Shaykhoun chemical attack by saying it was 100% fabricated. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the reports indicating there is a chemical attack in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 20, 2016 | Middle East
Khazir Camp-Mobile phones, cartons of cigarettes and fresh mutton are all on sale inside a camp for Iraqi civilians displaced in the battle to recapture Mosul — if they have the money. In the Khazir camp, buyers trudge in the mud, skidding around in flimsy shoes...
