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Iraqi special forces soldiers run for cover during clashes with ISIS fighters in Bartella, east of Mosul Reuters

Iraq Forces Push through Mosul’s East, ISIS Militants to be Fully Dislodged Soon

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...

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Britain, U.S. Deploy Planes, Troops to Deter Russia in The East

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....

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New Majalla Website: News in Motion for a World in Transition

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...

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Pope Francis talks with Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb (L), Egyptian Imam of al-Azhar Mosque at the Vatican, May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano Handout via Reuters

MCE: The East Has Sunk in Blood Swamps

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...

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Opinion: OBAMA’S MIDEAST POLICY: AN OBITUARY BY JOHN KERRY

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...