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Iran’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi addresses a speech during a demonstration against the presidential election in Iran outside the European Parliament in Brussels June 24, 2009. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Shirin Ebadi: Khomeini Ignored Request to Reveal Fate of Musa Sadr

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 2, 2016 | Middle East

London- Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi disclosed that Iran played a role in the decision taken by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to kill Imam Musa al-Sadr in 1979. Speaking for the first time about the disappearance of the founder of the Lebanese...

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Blair urged gadhafi to stop the violence, and keep communications open between them

Blair Urged Gadhafi to Find ‘Safe Place’: Transcripts

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 7, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

LONDON: Former British prime minister Tony Blair urged Moammar Gadhafi to stand aside and find a bolthole in the early days of the Libyan uprising, telephone transcripts released Thursday showed. Blair urged the Libyan dictator to stop the violence, start a process of...

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Supporters of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi attend a rally in Nasser City in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Opinion: The Muslim Brotherhood has failed in Egypt

by Tariq Alhomayed | Jun 24, 2013 | Opinion

Regardless of the results of the forthcoming 30 June demonstrations in Egypt, and whether the opposition succeeds in toppling the president or not, reality says the Muslim Brotherhood’s project in Egypt has failed, and that the Brotherhood will suffer from this...

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People demonstrate to demand the country’s National Congress and transitional government ensure the police and the army carry out their jobs, and that militias are dismantled, in Benghazi May 17, 2013. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori

Libyan Islamists plan power-sharing arrangement, say sources

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jun 13, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sources in the Libyan parliament say prominent Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists and the Jihadists, have been discussing the possibility of nominating candidates to share the positions of prime minister and speaker of the...

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General National Congress vice president Jomaa Atiga speaks to the press in Tripoli on June 9, 2013, hours after Libya’s army chief resigned a day after clashes killed 31 people in the eastern city of Benghazi. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA

Libyan government to end militia problem “by force”

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 10, 2013 | Middle East

Tripoli, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Libyan authorities have decided to bring armed militias under the government’s control after a day of clashes in Benghazi. Sources in the Libyan parliament, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the government would use force if...