by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 17, 2016 | World
An internal memo, sharply critical of U.S. policy in Syria, was signed by more than 50 mid- to high-level State Department officers involved with advising on Syria policy, calling for military strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s government to end its violations of...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Nov 18, 2015 | Opinion
The recent act of terrorism in Paris has confirmed one, definite thing; the necessity for intervention in Syria and putting an end to this chaos, the dangers of which have reached beyond the Middle East. In Vienna, instead of solving the crisis with intervention, the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 12, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The government of Iraq made its first implicit admission of the presence of Iraqi fighters in neighboring Syria on Tuesday. Ali Musawi, media advisor to Iraqi prime minister Nuri Al-Maliki, said: “The Iraqi government is committed to a policy...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Jun 2, 2013 | Opinion
This war is unlike other Arab wars; it is a war between the major symbols of different identities, or at least that is how this conflict is being framed. Our past, and our discourse, is sectarian. Last Monday, the editor-in-chief of the Al-Safeer newspaper, well-known...
by Diana Moukalled | May 20, 2013 | Opinion
After showing the dead body to his audience, a Syrian rebel known as Abu Saqqar held up an internal organ he had ripped out of a Syrian regime soldier, looked at the camera and brutally bit into it. Abu Saqqar did not settle for this lone act, but instead vowed to...
