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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, during a ceremony to mark Islam’s Prophet Muhammad’s birth in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Why Europe Should Ban Hezbollah

by Matthew Levitt | Mar 19, 2013 | Debate

According to Bulgarian investigators, Hezbollah was responsible for the July 2012 bus bombing that left five Israelis and a Bulgarian dead at Burgas airport. Two of the Hezbollah operatives were Western citizens—a Canadian and an Australian—who returned to Lebanon via...

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A man identified as Suleiman Abu Ghaith appears in this still image taken from an undated video address. (REUTERS/Handout)

Bin Laden’s Son-In-Law Pleads Not Guilty

by Mohammed Al-Shafey and Mohamed Ali Saleh and Mohamed Al-Daameh | Mar 9, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, pleaded not guilty on Friday to plotting against Americans in his role as Al-Qaeda’s top spokesman. This comes as part of a landmark case being tried by the United States against a terror...

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In this file picture taken on November 13, 2012 terror suspect Abu Qatada arrives at his home in northwest London , after he was released from prison. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREW COWIE)

Abu Qatada Arrested in Britain for Breaching Bail Terms

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 9, 2013 | World

London, Reuters—Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been arrested in London for breaching his bail terms, days before the British government begins an appeal against a court decision blocking his deportation to Jordan. Accused by the British authorities of posing a...

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In this Saturday, June 2, 2012 file photo, Egypt’s former President, Hosni Mubarak, lays on a gurney inside a barred cage in the police academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

Retrial of Egypt’s Mubarak and Sons Set for April 13

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 3, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo, Reuters—An Egyptian court set the date on Sunday for a retrial of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, his sons and top aides, ordering the politically fraught hearings over the killing of protesters to start just nine days before parliamentary elections next month....

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Asharq Al-Awsat file photo of Asir Province (AAA).

Asir Police Play Down ‘African Gang’ Activity

by Tariq Al-Thaqafi and Fatin Al-Shehri | Mar 1, 2013 | Middle East

ABHA, Asharq Al-Awsat—Recent press reports of criminal gangs at large in the Saudi Arabian province of Asir are overstated, according to police. Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Shathan, official spokesman for the Asir Province Police Department, informed Asharq Al-Awsat...