by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 10, 2017 | Middle East
Baghdad – Kata’ib Hezbollah Secretary General Bassam al-Safi, based in the Iraqi city of Basra, was shot dead Wednesday evening. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the assassination was staged by a dicey group aiming to provoke national strife....
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jan 24, 2017 | Middle East
The United Nations announced Tuesday that it is not wasting time on preparing emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of endangered civilians in Mosul with an Iraqi army offensive looming to drive ISIS hardliners from the western half of the city. U.N. officials...