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US soldiers walk near a police checkpoint in Afghanistan. (Reuters)

Questions on al-Qaeda’s Possible Return

by Emile Amin | Sep 18, 2017 | Features

Cairo – In mid-August al-Qaeda threatened to derail Britain’s train system, urging its supporters to heed its call. This brought up the debate about whether the extremist organization was on the rise again, 16 years after the United States declared war against it....

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Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting. (AP)

Breitbart … Rose with Trump and Claims to ‘Protect’ him

by Najlaa Habriri | Sep 11, 2017 | Features

London – It is usually the custom of businessmen and groups to pressure newspapers and website to portray them in a positive light, whether politically or commercially. It is rare however for a media outlet to succeed in infiltrating the political realm, the most...

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White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Reuters

Steve Bannon Leaves White House

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 19, 2017 | World

US President Donald Trump parted ways with his controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday in the latest White House shake-up. But the 63-year-old vowed to keep pushing the president’s right-wing agenda, as he returned to his former home at the...

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White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon. (AFP Photo/Mike Theiler)

US Locked in ‘Economic War with China’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 18, 2017 | Business

Washington- White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said in an interview published Wednesday that the US is at “economic war with China” and dismissed the ratcheting up of tensions stemming from North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity...

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Steve Bannon (Photo: AFP)

Trump Strategist Bannon Dropped from National Security Council

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 6, 2017 | World

Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has lost his seat on the powerful National Security Council in a high-level White House shakeup. Trump’s elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticized as injecting...