Articles tagged with: Army
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Thursday, 28 Mar, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—The White House says it is closely monitoring the growing hunger strike by prisoners at the notorious Guantánamo Bay detention center, while defense attorneys for the inmates and the US military continue to trade accusations in the media.
The severity of the crisis has prompted the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to move forward a planned trip to the facilities in order to check on the condition of the inmates.
According to Captain Robert Dura...
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Wednesday, 20 Mar, 2013
CAIRO, Asharq Al-Awsat—Fears over the ‘Ikhwanization’ of the Egyptian army have been raised after the Egyptian Military Academy director, Major General Esmat Murad, revealed that students with links to the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafist political factions have been accepted into the academy, including President Mohamed Mursi’s own nephew.
An Egyptian soldier, speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of anonymity, revealed that “for the first time, students whose families or ...
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Monday, 13 Aug, 2012
Over the weekend Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi unexpectedly dismissed the influential head of the army, Defense Minister Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi. The dismissal w...
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Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2012
The lynchpin of America’s military empire is its alliance network. In exchange for the use of their air corridors and sea lanes, the US military will shower upon partner stat...
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The political mood in Cairo and wider Egypt—not to mention the general mood in the streets—is tense. The country has been stretched to breaking point over a year and a half...
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Wednesday, 21 Mar, 2012
The Majalla has met with the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, Mohammed Riad Al-Shaqfa. In an expansive interview, Shaqfa expressed dissatisfaction with the vacillatio...
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Thursday, 1 Mar, 2012
Asef Shawkat began his political career as a relative outsider in a government dominated by the Al-Assad family, neither a member of the Assads or one of their influential Makh...
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Tuesday, 28 Feb, 2012
A few days before Christmas last year, and just after another wave of deadly rioting had erupted in Cairo following the first round of parliamentary elections, an Egyptian news...
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Thursday, 5 Jan, 2012
Since the fall of Mubarak the tension between Egypt’s military rulers and protestors demanding for a break with past practices has dominated the country’s politics. Rather ...
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Tuesday, 3 Jan, 2012
The President of the Syrian National Council (SNC), Burhan Ghalioun, considers the end of the Assad regime in Syria to be close at hand. Despite serious misgivings about the im...
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