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Police officers in downtown Ottawa on October 22, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/Lars Hagberg)


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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) holds up a copy of Dabiq, the English language magazine published ISIS, during a hearing on ‘worldwide threats to the homeland’ in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 17, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)


Al-Azhar tackles ISIS propaganda machine

Al-Azhar tackles ISIS propaganda machine

by | Oct 23, 2014 | Media

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Given its notoriety and the brutality of its tactics, the fact that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has developed an impressively slick and professional new media arm is sometimes overlooked. In response, the most prestigious...
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Moroccan Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid talks to Asharq Al-Awsat in Rabat, Morocco. (Asharq Al-Awsat)


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Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014. A U.S.-led military coalition has been bombing Islamic State fighters who hold a large swathe of territory in both Iraq and Syria, […]


Opinion: Re-drawing the Map of the Levant

Opinion: Re-drawing the Map of the Levant

by | Oct 23, 2014 | Opinion

The little town of Ain Al-Arab, called Kobani by the Turks and Kurds, is becoming a more important place in the Middle East political map than the great city of Aleppo. The plight of this small Syrian town, predominantly inhabited by ethnic Kurds, has provoked a...
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Iraq’s new Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi (front row, 3rd L) speaks to officers at the Defence Ministry in Baghdad, October 19, 2014. (Reuters)