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Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani attends an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar November 26, 2016. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon

Qatari FM to Iraqi PM: Return the Money If You Don’t Need It

by Mirza Al-Khuwaylidi | Apr 27, 2017 | Middle East

Doha – Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced that the deal to secure the release of Qatari hunters kidnapped in southern Iraq went ahead with the “full knowledge” of Baghdad. The Qatari FM was responding to Iraqi Prime...

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Students Protest against Prime Minister Abadi in Kut, Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 1, 2017 | Middle East

Baghdad- An Iraqi council of ministers meeting was interrupted by rioting Al-Qadisiya University students. Demonstrations took place at Wasit province’s capital Kut, 180 km west of Baghdad. Students protested in droves, chanting slogans that overthrow Prime Minister...

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir delivers a statement after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, February 8, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Iraq’s Prime Minister Receives Saudi Foreign Minister Al-Jubeir

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 25, 2017 | Middle East

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi received at his office on Saturday Saudi Arabia Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, who is on an official visit to Iraq. During the meeting, they discussed issues of common interest in addition to means of...

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A vendor moves from one train to another at a railway station in Kolkata February 12, 2014. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

Hop on That Train! Or You Shall Age in Darkness

by Ghassan Charbel | Feb 20, 2017 | Opinion

You’d better not go into your ancestors’ attic if you get suddenly sick. The medicine you would find there expired long time ago. Diseases are as much complicated as their treatment. Let your ancestors rest peacefully. Don’t live under the illusion that you have to...

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A picture taken with a mobile phone on February 16, 2017 shows locals looking through debris at the scene of a blast by a massive car bomb. AFP PHOTO / Ahmad MOUSA

Death Toll in Baghdad Car Bomb Attack Claimed by ISIS at 59

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 17, 2017 | Middle East

The death toll from a huge car bomb attack at a used car market in the south of Iraq’s capital has reached 59 with 66 others injured, a police officer and medical sources said Friday. Authorities initially said the Thursday attack at the auto dealership in the...