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Iranian voters in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, last month in the country’s first presidential election since its nuclear deal with world powers. Credit Majid Saeedi/Getty Images

C.I.A. Names the ‘Dark Prince’ to Run Iran Operations, Signaling a Tougher Stance

by MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ADAM GOLDMAN | Jun 3, 2017 | Features

WASHINGTON — He is known as the Dark Prince or Ayatollah Mike, nicknames he earned as the Central Intelligence Agency officer who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the American drone strike campaign that killed thousands of militants and hundreds of civilians....

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FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves to people attending a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of country’s founding father, Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, April 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo

N. Korea Claims CIA Plot to Assassinate Kim Jong-Un

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 5, 2017 | World

North Korea on Friday accused the US Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea’s intelligence service of plotting to attack its “supreme leadership” with a bio-chemical weapon. The North’s Ministry of State Security released a statement...

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European Parliament’s President Antonio Tajani. Reuters

European Parliament Chief Calls for Establishing CIA-like Intelligence Agency

by Abdullah Mustafa | Apr 25, 2017 | World

Brussels – King Philippe of Belgium has sent a personal invitation to Egypt’s Grand Mufti Dr. Shawki Allam to visit Brussles, according to a diplomatic source in Belgium and EU’s capital city. The source told Asharq Al-Awsat that this invitation is a clear...

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Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in a military parade marking the 27th anniversary of Hamas’ founding, in Gaza City December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Hamas Commander Ghandour Designated as Global Terrorist

by Mohammed Ali Saleh, Khater al-Khater | Apr 7, 2017 | Middle East

Washington – The US State Department gave a “global terrorist” designation to Hamas commander Abu Anas al-Ghandour considering him a direct threat to the US and its interest, in a statement for the Department. Under a 2001 executive order that imposes sanctions...

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A US Navy guard patrols Camp Delta’s detainee recreation yard at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. (Reuters)

CIA Torture Left Scars on Guantánamo Prisoner’s Psyche for Years

by Charlie Savage | Mar 19, 2017 | World

Washington – Nearly a decade after CIA interrogators tortured a Saudi man suspected of involvement in Al-Qaeda’s bombing of the American destroyer Cole in 2000, the prisoner continued to experience lingering psychological consequences, including “nightmares that...