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People wait to be evacuated from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria December 16, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Syria Talks Hit Dead End, Aleppo Monitoring Boosted

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 20, 2016 | Middle East

The Russian foreign ministry made a statement saying that U.N.-brokered negotiations in Geneva on the Syrian crisis had hit a dead end due to demands from the Syrian opposition in exile. Moscow backs Syrian authoritarian Bashar al-Assad in the conflict, while the...

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German State Security Monitors 90 Mosques

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 3, 2016 | World

A few days after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) demanded that mosques in Germany are monitored, the president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution revealed that the office already monitors around 90...

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The Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Hafez Ghanem

The World Bank to Asharq Al-Awsat: Aid to Syrian Refugees Will be Monitored Every 6 Months

by Mina Al-Droubi | Feb 9, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

The Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa Hafez Ghanem confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the World Bank “aims to give $20 billion to the Middle East to help ease the Syrian crisis” within the next five years. The figure is three times...