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Opinion: US Presidential Election – the Right to Make the Wrong Choice

by Amir Taheri | Dec 19, 2015 | Opinion

Though it is still early days, if things continue as they are we may get the least exciting presidential campaign that the United States has offered for decades. Having spent 10 days in the US this month, a visitor was unable to notice any rise in adrenaline on either...

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American –Turkish Initiative to Close Borders in front of ISIS

by Thair Abbas | Nov 18, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East, World

Turkish official sources yesterday confirmed that the Turkish army and international coalition forces consider that the military operation that ISIS is preparing for aims to invade areas that the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian Turkmen Army opposition groups are...

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The Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir

Saudi Arabia: Arab-Latin American Rapprochement Will Increase Iran’s Isolation

by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Nov 10, 2015 | Latest News, Middle East

The Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir stated yesterday that the “Riyadh Declaration” that will emerge from the Fourth Summit of Arab and South American Countries “will be historic and comprehensive, and will cover many positive matters in terms of attitudes”, thus...

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A South Korean man watches a television news program showing Korean American Kenneth Bae at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo)

North Korea Sentences American to 15 Years Hard Labor

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 2, 2013 | World

Seoul, Reuters—North Korea sentenced US citizen Kenneth Bae to 15 years hard labor on Thursday for what it said were crimes against the state, a move that will likely see him used as a bargaining chip in talks with Washington. Bae, 44, was born in South Korea but is a...