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A father reacts after the death of two of his children, whom activists said were killed by shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, at al-Ansari area in Aleppo in this January 3, 2013 file photograph. (REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman/Files)

Opinion: Who benefits from Assad remaining in power?

by Hussein Shobokshi | Aug 31, 2013 | Opinion

As recent events have shown us, sectarian bias has no limits in the Arab world. The peoples of the region still view despots and radicals selectively. While sometimes they see Saddam Hussein as a bloody Ba’athist thug, they can then suddenly change their minds...

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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Hamid Mousa: Sacrifices Outweigh Benefits of Regime Change

by Hamza Mustafa | Mar 25, 2013 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hamid Majid Mousa, secretary-general of the Iraqi Communist Party and former member of the Iraqi Interim Governing Council, believes, “The changes that have come to Iraq ten years after regime change are not worth the sacrifices that the Iraqi...

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Iraqi women living in Yemen hold up the Iraqi flag used during the Baath Party’s rule under ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, as they take part in a protest in front of the Iraqi Embassy, in the capital Sanaa on January 16, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS)

Iraqis Have a Chance: What Will They Do With It?

by Amir Taheri | Mar 15, 2013 | Opinion

Almost a decade ago a four letter word divided political opinion across the board. The word was “Iraq” whose regime had acted as a rogue state since the late 1960s. The debate that caused the division achieved new intensity when a “coalition of the willing” led by the...