Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

Media ID: 55325185
Caption:

In this Sunday, July, 28, 2013 file photo, a United Nations peacekeeper stands guard at the entrance to a polling station covered in separatist flags and graffiti supporting the creation of the independent state of Azawad, in Kidal, Mali (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

UN: several peacekeepers killed, wounded in Mali

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 14, 2013 | World

Dakar, Senegal, Associated Press—A bomb explosion killed and wounded several members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali in the troubled northern city of Kidal, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday. “There was an explosion this morning and...

Media ID: 55290272
Caption:

A French soldier checks passengers of a transport truck arriving in Gao, northern Mali, Thursday Feb. 14, 2013. Malian forces have stepped up security around the port an the main market, in an effort to stop the infiltration of rebel fighters in the town. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Al-Qaeda’s Apologists

by Yousef Al-Dayni | Jan 24, 2013 | Opinion

If you believe that any extremist group has the right to declare jihad, take up arms, run rampant across the country under the pretense of imposing sharia law, establish training camps, smuggle weapons, and welcome hordes of insurgents from all over the world, then do...