by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2013 | World
Philippines, Reuters—Rogue Muslim rebels seeking to declare an independent state put a dozen civilians tied together by rope on display as a human shield on Wednesday as a standoff with security forces in a southern Philippine city entered its third day. Waving white...
by Nadine Makarem | Aug 9, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Two Turkish Airlines pilots, Murat Akpınar and Murat Ağca, have been kidnapped today, Friday, August 9, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. According to local reports, six gunmen forced the two out of a shuttle bus less than a kilometer away from...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 6, 2013 | World
Kabul, AFP—Taliban militants have killed 17 captured Afghan soldiers in the far northeast in one of the deadliest single attacks on local forces in recent years, officials said on Wednesday. The men were taken hostage in Badakhshan on Saturday while guarding a convoy....
by Osman Mirghani | Jan 24, 2013 | Opinion
The tragic events in Algeria and the consequences of Mali’s crisis have overshadowed all other news stories over the past few days and have been met with understandable shock. However there is nothing surprising about what happened, even if some analysts are...
by Al-Sheikh Mohamed | Jan 21, 2013 | Middle East
Nouakchott/ Algiers, Asharq Al-Awsat – A Canadian citizen was the coordinator of the terrorist attack on a gas plant in In Amenas (southeast of Algiers), Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal revealed on Monday. “A Canadian was among the militants. He was...
