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US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump Trying to Find his Footing on Vexing Foreign Problems

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 2, 2017 | Features

Despite his promises of a no-holds-barred administration, President Donald Trump is tiptoeing around US military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and dialing back the threats of abandoning allies. It seems Trump is opting for an increasingly risk-averse approach...

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Fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stand guard at a checkpoint in the northern Iraq city of Mosul

Mass Grave South of Mosul: A Tragic Scene of a Thousand Corpses

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 28, 2017 | Middle East

Athbah (South Mosul)- A large depression in the ground, called Khasfah (an Arabic word for a crack or a hole that opens up in the ground) in the desert south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, is believed to be where the dead bodies of ISIS victims are stacked,...

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Anna Mumaw (L) of Olympia, Washington attends the People’s Tribunal Against the Detention Center event organized by undocumented immigrants and formerly detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington on February 26, 2017. Jason Redmond / AFP

Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump

by Nicholas Kulish, Caitlin Dickerson and Ron Nixon | Feb 27, 2017 | Features

Virginia- In Virginia, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited outside a church shelter where undocumented immigrants had gone to stay warm. In Texas and in Colorado, agents went into courthouses, looking for foreigners who had arrived for hearings on other...

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN

Signs of New Regional Alliance

by Amir Taheri | Feb 25, 2017 | Features

London- It was only last month that political circles in Ankara, Moscow and Tehran were abuzz about a new triple alliance of Turkey, Russia and Iran to end the conflict in Syria and reshape the Middle East. A summit, slated for early March, was supposed to give that...

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Syrian refugees live in makeshift tent settlements in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. Credit Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times

For Syrian Refugees, There Is No Going Home

by Anne Barnard | Feb 25, 2017 | Features

SOUAIRI, Lebanon — In the makeshift tent settlements that dot fields and villages in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Syrian refugees are digging in, pouring concrete floors, installing underground sewerage and electric wires, and starting businesses and families. What...