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French police investigate an apartment in a residential building, during a police raid in Boussy-Saint-Antoine near Paris, France, September 8, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

French Police Arrest Minor Suspected of Plotting Attack

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 14, 2016 | World

French counterterrorism police arrested on Wednesday a 15-year old boy suspected of planning an attack and using encrypted social media channels to communicate with a French Islamist militant believed to be in Syria or Iraq, sources said. The arrest came following two...

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U.S. Senator for Arizona John McCain leaves the American Center after a press briefing in Hanoi August 8, 2014. REUTERS/Kham

John McCain: Yemen Would Have Been Far Worse Without the Saudi Intervention

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 18, 2016 | Middle East

Washington- Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain recently highlighted the fact that Yemen would have faced a much worse fate had Saudi Arabia not intervened. He lauded the Riyadh spent efforts, which are being led by the Custodian of the Two...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi walks with his security detail in the city of Ramadi, December 29, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

Albaghdadi and Haditha Freed, Iraqi Forces Advance to Western Anbar

by Manaf al Obeidi | May 5, 2016 | Middle East

Ramadi- Iraqi security forces managed to lift the blockade which has long distressed the two cities of Albaghdadi and Haditha. The besiegement, previously imposed by ISIS terrorists, had been ongoing for two years. Connecting the two cities, the recently freed...

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KAICIID Co-organizes CAR Intra-Muslim Dialogue

Counterterrorism Online Campaigns Launched from Cairo

by Waleed Abdul Rahman | May 3, 2016 | Middle East

Cairo- The upcoming youth forum in Cairo will launch international and regional cloud campaigns addressing violence and terrorist organizations, especially those established in the name of religion, an Egyptian source said. The forum aims at covering all sides to...

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McGurk, the United States’ new envoy to the coalition it leads against ISIS, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the U.S. embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Reuters

U.S. Envoy: ISIS Move To Libya Facilitates Taking it Down

by Najlaa Habriri | Apr 23, 2016 | Middle East

London- Brett McGurk, U.S. State Department official coordinating the effort against ISIS, said that ISIS organization’s leaderships leaving Iraq and Syria for Libya- crossing many borders through their trip- makes will it easier to monitor and take them down. In an...