Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq in June 2014. (AP)

Opinion: Fighting ISIS is the duty of all Arabs

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Feb 26, 2015 | Opinion

When Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990, an international coalition was formed to expel his army. The coalition was advocated and embraced by Saudi Arabia who effectively participated in it both militarily and politically and in terms of security while...

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A general view shows a church in the Assyrian village of Abu Tina, which was recently captured by Islamic State fighters, February 25, 2015. (Reuters)

274 Assyrian Christian captives awaiting ISIS trial

by Amy Assad | Feb 26, 2015 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hundreds of Assyrian Christians abducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a series of dawn raids on their villages in Syria’s northeast Hasakah province are being held in the ISIS stronghold of Al-Shaddadeh on the Abdulaziz...

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter flashes the sign for victory after re-capturing the village of Tel Asquf from Islamic State (IS) militants on the eastern outskirts of Mosul Dam, near the northern city Mosul, on August 18, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Opinion: The US and the liberation of Mosul

by Wafiq Al-Samarrai | Feb 24, 2015 | Opinion

It is wonderful that every time the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows up or advances towards the outskirts of Mosul, particularly near the Iraqi Kurdistan region, it is swiftly targeted by the US air force. This is unlike the situation in the western Anbar...

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An Iraqi Airways plane lands at Baghdad International airport. (Reuters)

Opinion: Shooting Down Confidence

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Feb 1, 2015 | Opinion

Three bullets hit a FlyDubai jet at Baghdad airport last week, causing the suspension of not only many flights to the Iraqi capital but fresh doubts in Iraq and abroad about the Iraqi government and its ability to control the country. It will take time before the...

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The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Aphrem II. (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Syria belongs to its people: Syriac Orthodox Patriarch

by Amy Assad | Dec 19, 2014 | Interviews

Vienna and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—It is Christmas season in Austria and a chilly, drizzly evening in its capital Vienna. The city’s busy Christmas market at the foot of its grand Town Hall beams cheerfully with multi-colored lanterns as steam radiates from its hot...