Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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ISIS members from Kazakhstan, China, the US, Iraq and Syria held in Irbil jail and interviewed by Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

3 ISIS Members Recount to Asharq Al-Awsat their Journey with the Terror Group

by Ghassan Charbel | Sep 5, 2017 | Features

Irbil – The ISIS terrorist organization has created a series of catastrophes around the world. The tragedies have taken the form of persecuting minorities and massacres in cities near and far. The group has created tragedies in cities that were accused of harboring it...

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ISIS members and their families are bussed towards Syria’s Deir al-Zour province on August 28, 2017 under a deal to end three years of extremist presence on the Syrian-Lebanese border. (AFP)

ISIS, ‘Hezbollah’ Deal Reveals Hidden Agendas

by Hani Nasira | Sep 4, 2017 | Features

Dubai – Recent developments have seen opposing extremist groups, both Sunni and Shi’ite, set aside their differences in order to achieve their interests. Survival instincts and Machiavellian schemes run deeper than ideological victories that only the people kill...

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President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani. (AFP)

Iraq’s Kurds Heading Towards Independence

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 2, 2017 | Features

Erbil- From the very first moment the majority of the Kurdish parties agreed to hold an independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan, Amid Nankali and a group of young people started to prepare for this process by raising awareness among citizens through social media...

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ISIS militants (Photo: AFP)

ISIS Members from Iraq, Syria Tell their Stories

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 31, 2017 | Middle East

Erbil- I had a strange sensation while I was sitting in the counter-terrorism headquarters in Erbil, amidst hundreds of ISIS men distributed in the prison chambers and cells. In the morning I discussed with Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani the future...

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Anti-immigrant protests in the Czech Republic in 2015. (AFP)

Radicalism and Terrorism: Obstacles Hindering Historic and Geographic European-Muslim Ties

by Emile Amin | Aug 28, 2017 | Features

Cairo – One of the most important questions posed on the intellectual scene is one related to the ties between Europe and Islam as a religion and Muslims as followers of that religion. This is a relationship that dates back to centuries. Yes, they may not all have...