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Airstrikes against civilians in Aleppo (Photo: AFP)
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Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi attends a meeting with local officials in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on March 4, 2015. (Reuters/Stringer)
Yemen’s Hadi calls for no-fly zone, GCC military intervention
Riyadh and Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s internationally-recognized government on Sunday called on the UN and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to impose a no-fly zone over parts of the country after the third largest city of Taiz fell to Houthi rebels. Tensions in...Caption:
Army troopers man a checkpoint in Sanaa August 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)
C’est La Vie in Sana’a
Yemen is in the international spotlight again, and that can only mean one thing—bad news. This time it’s terror related, with the news that the United States, and several other Western countries, have closed their embassies in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. The word is...Caption:
Damaged cars are seen near a screen erected to protect against snipers loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, at the al-Khalidiya neighbourhood of Homs June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Yazan Homsy
Syrian army continues to pound Homs
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The bombardment of the city of Homs by the Syrian army has continued for the second day running, as government forces continue attempts to re-capture the city from rebels opposed to the rule of Bashar Al-Assad. Meanwhile, the Syrian government...Caption:
In this undated photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan al-Buti, an 84-year-old cleric known to all Syrians as a religious scholar, speaks at a press conference. (AP Photo/SANA)