by Dalshad Abdullah | Nov 7, 2016 | Middle East
Irbil- Iraq’s counter-terror units on Sunday continued the advance into ISIS overrun neighborhoods in Mosul’s eastern vicinity. Areas such as, Al Bakir and Al Khadraa witnessed intensified fighting as Iraq’s elite forces pushed through Hammam al-Alil, establishing...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 26, 2016 | World
Britain announced on Wednesday that it will be sending fighter jets to Romania in 2017 and that the United States made promises on deploying troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 24, 2016 | Features
We are thrilled to announce a new step forward in Middle Eastern journalism: Majalla, a multimedia news site in Arabic, Persian, and English. Since 1980, the print magazine Al-Majalla (“The Scroll”) has delivered reporting and analysis in Arabic to readers across the...
by Waleed Abdul Rahman | May 25, 2016 | Middle East
Cairo – Muslim Council of Elders (MCE) said yesterday that the east has sunk in blood swamps. Meanwhile, Grand Imam of al-Azhar Mosque, Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb met with French President François Hollande at Elysee Palace on Tuesday, where both parties discussed the...
by Amir Taheri | Nov 21, 2015 | Opinion
The other evening in New York when Secretary of State John Kerry came to talk about President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, everyone thought he had come to praise it. An hour and 6000 words later, it was clear that he had come to bury it. The expected encomium became...
