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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hosts Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, February 12, 2012 (photo credit: AP)
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Younes Makhioun, the head of the Nour party, speaks during a news conference about constitution in Cairo December 5, 2013. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
Egypt’s Salafist Nour party says “no” to electoral alliances
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s Salafist Al-Nour Party does not intend to join any political alliance ahead of parliamentary elections set to be held later this year, party leader Younes Makhioun told Asharq Al-Awsat. “The Nour Party is among the most powerful parties...Caption:
Lebanese army soldiers deployed on the streets of Sidon, southern Lebanon, December 16, 2013. On Sunday gunmen attacked two army checkpoints outside the southern Lebanese city, killing a soldier and wounding three others. (Reuters/Ali Hashisho)
Lebanon: Army attacked by suicide bombers for first time
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A double suicide bombing rocked the Lebanese city of Sidon on Sunday, the first time suicide bombers have targeted the Lebanese military. One soldier was killed and two others wounded as a result, according to the Lebanese authorities. The four...Fighting Faith
As clashes in Dammaj, in the northern province of Saada, intensify, officials in the Yemeni capital are growing more and more worried about the impact that sectarian tensions will have on Yemen’s fragile political transition. This is all the more worrying because the...Caption:
Red Cross medics help an injured man during an evacuation of people, wounded by fighting in Dammaj of Yemen’s northwestern province of Saada, at the Saada airport on November 14, 2013. (Reuters)