Articles tagged with: UN
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Friday, 29 Mar, 2013
During the ten years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, we have been bombarded by statistics that purport to indicate levels of progress in the country. Statistics and numbers taken on their own do not necessarily translate into human reality, and they can be misleading. As US sports commentator Vin Scully’s ubiquitous saying goes, “Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.”
Mona Chalabi discovered this for herself while working as a human rig...
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Friday, 22 Mar, 2013
BEIRUT, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syria’s top Sunni cleric, Sheikh Mohammad Said Ramadan Al-Buti, was killed last night in a suicide bomb attack at the Iman Mosque in Damascus, along with at least forty-two others.
Al-Buti was a close political ally of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and had been one of the few remaining pillars of support for the Damascus regime among Syria’s Sunni majority. His death further weakens the ailing Assad government.
In a rare statement issued via the state-run...
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Tuesday, 12 Mar, 2013
Faddy Sahloul, the founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, rubs his tired eyes and pulls heavily on his cigarette. From his small flat in Rayhaniya, on the Turkish–Syrian border, Sahl...
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Tuesday, 19 Feb, 2013
The world appears to have run out solutions to the Syrian crisis. An extensive five-month report commissioned by the UN revealed in January that the generally accepted death toll o...
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Wednesday, 23 Jan, 2013
Last year was a time of transition in Yemen. The revolution, or crisis, depending on who you speak to, led to the end of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s thirty-three year rule, and his ...
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LONDON/SANA'A, Asharq Al-Awsat—An official Yemeni source revealed that efforts are currently underway to convince former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the coun...
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Wednesday, 19 Dec, 2012
As rain pours down over the 360-square kilometer Gaza Strip, the memory of last month’s Israeli military assault still fresh in the minds of many in Gaza, a ray of hope may y...
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Thursday, 13 Dec, 2012
Crying wolf was an activity in which Ali Abdullah Saleh excelled. For years, Yemen’s former president explored regional and international worries about the presence of Al-Qae...
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As an American expat, America’s role and reputation in the international arena is of crucial importance to me. Like my president, I believe in America’s ability to lead, an...
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Exchanges of artillery fire across the Turkish–Syrian border were reported on Wednesday and Thursday, as the Turkish military responded to Syrian army mortar fire on the Turkish ...
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