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Friday, 24 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—All political sides in Iraq are examining a new initiative launched by Ammar Al-Hakim, leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), which aims to put an end to the political division in the country.
Earlier this week, Ammar Al-Hakim invited several political sides in Iraq—the Sunnis, Shi’ites and Kurds—to attend a meeting in Baghdad to put forward an initiative to secure rapprochement between the opposing political forces and end the terrorist attacks t...
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat—More than half of all Iraqi MPs boycotted an emergency parliamentary session held yesterday to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the country, further escalating the entrenched political crisis in Baghdad.
Just 140 out of a total of 325 Iraqi parliamentarians attended the special parliamentary session called for by Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi at the behest of the Ahrar parliamentary bloc, affiliated to the Sadrist Movement. The State of Law coalition blo...
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Monday, 20 May, 2013
TUNIS, Asharq Alawsat—Clashes between Salafist extremists and security forces in Tunisia and Kairouan on Sunday have left one Tunisian citizen dead. Eleven policemen and 3 pr...
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Friday, 17 May, 2013
BAGHDAD, Asharq Al-Awsat— Leading Iraqi Sunni cleric, Abdul Malik Al-Saadi, has accused some parties of putting pressure on the demonstrators to return to their homes before ...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Responding to the Tamarod (Rebellion) petition seeking to oust Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi—which at last count had gathered more than two millio...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
DOHA/ISTANBUL, Asharq Al-Awsat—Gulf sources have downplayed the recent Russian statements concerning a weapons deal with Syria.
A military expert has described reports th...
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Friday, 10 May, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—Hassan Rouhani, a reformist presidential hopeful and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator from 2003 to 2005, revealed on Tuesday that before the presiden...
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Thursday, 9 May, 2013
ERBIL, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters began a phased withdrawal from Turkish territory yesterday, in what may prove to be a historic development in Tur...
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Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat— American secretary of state John Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Russia today for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the ongoing crisis in Syria,...
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London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Libyan parliament approved a new law banning former members of the government of the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi from holding political office yeste...
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