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Demonstrators chant pro-ISIS slogans as they carry the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul on June 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

Opinion: ISIS cannot be ‘contained’

by Abdul Moneim Said | Oct 26, 2014 | Opinion

By the time this article goes to print, the battle for the Syrian border town of Kobani, or Ain Al-Arab as it is known in Arabic, may have reached its logical conclusion with the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) campaign to seize it. The fate of...

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File photo of US presidential envoy John Allen speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Exclusive: General Allen discusses coalition plans for defeating ISIS as regional tour starts

by Mina Al-Oraibi | Oct 25, 2014 | Interviews

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—When the American Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Gen. John Allen, arrives in Saudi Arabia today, his priorities will be to discuss the ‘long-term’ strategy...

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Iraqi Shi’ite militiamen aim their weapons during clashes with ISIS, in Jurf Al-Sakhr, about 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on October 7, 2014. (AP Photo)

Iraqi army drives ISIS out of key Shi’ite district

by Hamza Mustafa | Oct 25, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi army forces raised the national flag on government buildings in the Jurf Al-Sakhr district, 43 miles (70 km) south of Baghdad, on Friday after a months-long battle with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the...

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This image from a close circuit video shown during an October 23, 2014, press conference at Royal Canadian Mounted Police headquarters in Ottawa shows supected shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (circled) running towards the Canadian Parliament. Zehaf-Bibeau is suspected in the October 22 attack which killed a soldier and turned into a firefight in parliament’s halls the […]

Opinion: The Zombies of ISIS

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Oct 25, 2014 | Opinion

A Canadian national named Michael Zahaf-Bibeau, aged 32, made the headlines this week when he carried out a terrorist attack in Ottawa, killing one soldier standing guard at a war memorial before storming the nearby parliament. He was killed in the subsequent...

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ISIS fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province in Syria on June 30, 2014. (Reuters)

Opinion: ISIS scores another propaganda win

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 25, 2014 | Opinion

Why was the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) eager to promote a video showing its fighters stoning a girl to death as her father stands by, unwilling to forgive her alleged adultery? This video is one of the most dreadful videos to emerge that debases Islam. At...