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File photo: An Iraqi boy sits at a desk at a school in Mosul. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Joy and Concern as Pupils Return to School in Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 9, 2017 | Features

Mosul- After three years of forced truancy due to ISIS’ seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul, teenager Ali Salem waited nervously outside school to sit an English exam. Before heading out bright and early from a camp for the displaced in Hajj Ali, 60 kilometers away, he...

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Abdullah Al-Mouallimi, the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the UN, delivering his speech before the UN General Assembly on Saturday. — SPA

Saudi Expresses Strong Reservations over Misleading UN Report on Yemen

by SAID AL-ABYAD JORDAN DAkAMSEH | Oct 7, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

New York, Jeddah — Saudi Arabia rejected on Friday information and numbers listed in a UN report that blames the Saudi-led coalition for killing or injuring 683 children in Yemen, describing the report as “inaccurate and misleading.” Saudi UN Ambassador Abdallah...

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Saudi King and Putin hold official talks in Moscow on Thursday/SPA

Saudi-Russian Summit Opens Door for Partnership… Agreements Worth Several Billion Dollars

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 6, 2017 | Saudi Arabia

Moscow- Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud stressed Thursday the importance of bilateral cooperation between his country and Russia during a historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. In a...

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif arrives in Muscat, Oman, Monday, October 2, 2017. (Oman News Agency via AP)

Iran Offers Nuclear Deal Compromise with US via Oman

by Amir Taheri | Oct 3, 2017 | Features

London – Iran has asked Oman to transmit to Washington a set of new proposals designed to prevent a showdown with the Trump administration over the controversial nuclear deal reached with six major powers, sources in Tehran confirmed yesterday. Known as the...

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French police in Toulouse after the ISIS-claimed shooting by Mohammed Merah in 2012. (AFP)

‘Lone Wolf’ Phenomenon Started in West, Adopted by Qaeda, ISIS

by Emile Amin | Oct 2, 2017 | Features

Cairo – One of the most dangerous predicaments facing those confronting terrorism in the world, especially in Europe and the United States, is how to face the so-called “lone wolf” phenomenon. The phenomenon is in fact part of the greater map of what is known as...