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In this April 30, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)


Opinion: Better late than never

Opinion: Better late than never

Barack Obama’s change of attitude and his adoption of a more aggressive policy in Syria has taken us all unawares. Although the opposition says his decision came late, being late is better than not coming at all. Following the White House’s admission that the...
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Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad are seen in Ain-Assan village during what they said was an operation to occupy it, in southern countryside of Aleppo, June 15, 2013. REUTERS/George Ourfalian


Syria rebels say arms on way to Aleppo

Syria rebels say arms on way to Aleppo

London, Asharq Al-Awsat–Members of Syria’s armed opposition say that rebels in Aleppo have begun to receive more weapons and support from across the Turkish border, as the government of Bashar Al-Assad prepares an offensive to recapture the city. Free Syrian...
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via video during a conference, held in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday May, 9, 2013. (AP Photo)


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This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, show anti-Syrian regime protesters holding a placard with a sarcastic caricature on it against Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, right, during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil town, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday May 31, 2013. Syrian troops on Friday attacked a convoy trying to evacuate the wounded from a central town near the border with Lebanon, killing many people, as rebel reinforcements infiltrated the besieged area to fight government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, activists said. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)


Opinion: Nasrallah breaks Hezbollah’s back

Opinion: Nasrallah breaks Hezbollah’s back

Following his invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saddam Hussein attempted to justify himself in his speeches by alluding to the Palestinian struggle, saying that he would pray in Jerusalem once he fought the conspiracy against Iraq. Many thought that Saddam had gone astray,...
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UN Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, briefs the media after a meeting with the Russian deputy foreign ministers Mikhail Bogdanov, and Gennady Gatilov, and US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)