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Syrian men and civil defense volunteers search for survivors amid the rubble of a building following airstrike on the northwestern city of Idlib. (AFP)

Washington Monitors 10,000 Qaeda Militants in Idlib

by Ibrahim Hamidi | Aug 22, 2017 | Middle East

London – Washington is currently monitoring the presence of around 10,000 Qaeda leaders and militants in Syria’s province of Idlib and Moscow has asked the US earlirt this year to halt airstrikes against leaders of the organization in the north and west of...

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An Afghan fighter watches as US warplanes bomb positions held by al-Qaida in the Tora Bora mountains in 2001. Photograph: Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

‘The Exile’ Book: Bin Laden’s Escape to Iran

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 2, 2017 | World

London– At the time when September 11 attacks on New York and Washington occurred, Osama bin Laden was hiding in an Afghan cave, unable to get a decent TV satellite signal and was forced to follow up the developments on the radio. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy...