by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Oct 6, 2016 | Opinion
The mountainous city of Taif is only seventy kilometres away from the holy city of Makkah, and the missile that targeted Taif two days ago is a new and dangerous development in the war in Yemen. It confirms that the conflict in Yemen is a regional one. It also...
File photo of Syrian Graffiti artist Khalifa at work. (AAA)
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 8, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Khalifa has a message for the people of ravaged Aleppo: ‘Tomorrow this will be beautiful’. “It just came into my head one day as I was looking at the damaged buildings,” he says. “I heard that regime soldiers were painting ‘Only Assad, or we...
