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Relatives carry the coffin of an Iraqi soldier killed by militants during a funeral in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, April 28, 2013. (Reuters/Haider Ala)
by Hamza Mustafa | Jun 7, 2013 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi authorities announced that gunmen killed at least 14 travelers at a fake checkpoint at a remote desert site in Al-Anbar province on Wednesday in what appears to be an escalation of the sectarian violence gripping the country. The attack...
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Sunni tribal leader Sheikh Ahmad Abu-Rishah attends an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, February 15, 2013. (REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Kubaisi)
by Ma'ad Fayad | May 1, 2013 | Features
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The struggle in Iraq between the government of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and the largely Sunni protesters occupying town and city squares across the country has been kept out of the headlines by the war in Syria. This has not been changed...
by Mahmud El Shafey | Jan 13, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat – A number of former Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt, who have defected from the group, have announced the beginning of procedures to establish a new Dawa organization to compensate for the Brotherhood’s neglect of Islamic advocacy...
