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US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump Trying to Find his Footing on Vexing Foreign Problems

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 2, 2017 | Features

Despite his promises of a no-holds-barred administration, President Donald Trump is tiptoeing around US military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and dialing back the threats of abandoning allies. It seems Trump is opting for an increasingly risk-averse approach...

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This picture taken 14 November 2007 shows a view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) headquarters in Vienna. AFP PHOTO/JOE KLAMAR

Iran Accuses IAEA of Leaking Nuclear Documents

by Adel al-Salmi | Jul 25, 2016 | World

London – A week after the release of confidential information on its nuclear program, Iran continues its protests with the spokesman of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi confirming that Tehran will file a complaint with the International...

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Ylva van den Berg (R-L), longtime partner of AP video journalist Simone Camilli, his mother Maria Daniela Vigna and his father Pier Luigi Camilli wait for the start of the funeral service, at the Pitigliano Cathedral, Italy, on 15 August, 2014. (EPA/Riccardo de Luca/POOL)

Hundreds mourn AP video journalist killed in Gaza

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 15, 2014 | Media

Pitigliano, (Italy), AP–Several hundred mourners packed the ornate cathedral of this hilltop Tuscan town on Friday to remember Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli as a committed storyteller who had found personal and professional contentment in the Middle...

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Undated picture released by the family of Javier Espinosa shows the Spanish journalist, who was kidnapped in Syria in September, sitting at his home in Beirut, Lebanon. Espinosa was bureau chief of El Mundo in the Middle East with 25 years of front line reporting. He and Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, an award-winning freelance photographer, were both abducted on 16 September, 2013 at a check-point near Tal-Abyad, in northern Syria. They were taken to facilities belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Raqqa. (AP Photo/Family of Javier Espinosa)

News media urges Syria rebels to halt abductions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 11, 2013 | Media

Beirut, AP—Major international news organizations sent a letter to the leadership of the armed opposition in Syria on Wednesday, calling for urgent action against rebel groups increasingly targeting journalists for kidnappings. The letter, signed by 13 news...

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Romanian Razvan Cernaianu, formerly known as a hacker by the name of TinKode, works at his laptop in his office in Bucharest in this March 15, 2013 file picture. After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain’s Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/Files)

Opinion: Fabricating news in the digital age

by Ali Ibrahim | Jun 4, 2013 | Opinion

Even as it opened up new horizons in the field of information technology and allowed for a rapid exchange of information across the world, the era of the Internet and social media has created a lot of room for misunderstandings. The Internet has often been used to...