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Stalls are seen on a street beside damaged buildings in the rebel held al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, February 10, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Russia says U.S. Planes Bombed Syria’s Aleppo on Wednesday, not Russian

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 11, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday that the shelling of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday Feb. 10 was carried out by two U.S. aircraft and that Russian planes had not been operating in the area. A Pentagon spokesman had blamed Russian and Syria...

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File photo of Lebanese Ex-Industry Minister Vrej Sabounjian. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Lebanon’s ex-industry minister: Real estate market at rock bottom

by Fatah Al-Rahman Youssef | Apr 30, 2014 | Business

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The expression “when Xyou sneezes, YI catches a cold” could have been coined to describe the relationship, both political and economic, between Syria and Lebanon. Joined at the hip since their birth as independent states, instability in one...

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A Lebanese army soldier stands in front of a damaged car at the site of a car bomb that exploded Sunday evening, in the town of Nabi Othman, in northeast Lebanon, on March 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Assad capture of Yabroud fuels Lebanese tensions

by Nazeer Rida | Mar 18, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Sectarian tensions have been reignited in Lebanon after the Syrian government announced the capture of the strategic border town of Yabroud on Sunday, a critical blow to the predominantly Sunni Syrian rebels seeking to topple the Assad...

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Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) head Saleh Muslim speaks during a conference in Paris November 13, 2013. (Reuters/Philippe Wojazer)

Syrian Kurdish parties reach agreement on Geneva II

by Mohamed Zangeneh | Dec 25, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—An agreement has been reached between the Syrian Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the Syria-based Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) on Syrian Kurdish participation at the Geneva II conference. After eight days of meetings between the...

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Arab League-United Nations Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, center, gestures, followed by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, before a meeting on Syria at the UN offices in Geneva, December 20, 2013. (Reuters/Fabrice Coffrini)

Opinion: The Geneva II Opportunity

by Ali Ibrahim | Dec 25, 2013 | Opinion

With the Syrian civil war set to enter its fourth year in March, having exacted terrible human losses upon the country which have dwarfed even those of previous civil wars and internal conflicts in the region, and with increasingly more brutal atrocities committed by...