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File photo showing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaking during a news conference in Baghdad. (Reuters)

Maliki was politically outmaneuvered, former ally says

by Hamza Mustafa | Aug 12, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki was politically outmaneuvered after Iraqi President Fuad Masoum took the decision to task Haider Al-Abadi—a member of Maliki’s own Islamic Da’wa Party and a close aide—to form the next government, a...

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In this Friday, July 5, 2013 file photo, journalists film an Egyptian military attack helicopter flies by the Presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP /Hassan Ammar)

US temporarily resumes military aid to Egypt amid unrest

by Mahmud El Shafey | Apr 23, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The US has temporarily lifted an arms embargo on Cairo to deliver 10 attack helicopters to the Egyptian government amid reports that two police officers were killed on Wednesday as the security situation in the country continues to deteriorate....

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A handout photograph released by the Palestinian Authority shows US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, as he is greeted by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, upon his arrival at the Palestinian Authority’s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, on January 3, 2014. (EPA/Thaer Ganaim/Palestinian Authority)

Opinion: A Year of Settlements

by Ali Ibrahim | Feb 5, 2014 | Opinion

Regardless of how stormy and turbulent the events in the Arab region have been over the past three years, the Palestinian territories—whether the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank or the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip—have remained relatively calm and unaffected...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the media after a meeting with Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah in January, 2014 (Reuters/Brendan Smialowski)

Kerry: Palestinian-Israeli meetings making progress

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 5, 2014 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were “making progress,” but there were still serious obstacles to a peace agreement between the two sides. Speaking to reporters at...