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Iraqi Officials Say 23 Dead after Protests in Hawija
Iraqi soldiers surround an ambulance as it arrives at a hospital following clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters, allegedly infiltrated by militants, on April 23, 2013. Source:...
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Coptic Pope Turns Up the Heat
Coptic Pope Tawadros II, head of Coptic Orthodox church, gestures during an interview with Reuters in Cairo, April 25, 2013. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Coptic Pope Tawadros II has...
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Senior Iraqi Officers Accused of Hawijah Massacre
Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in the western Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on April 26, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/AZHAR SHALLAL) Baghdad, Asharq...
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Tensions in Iraq Escalate Amid Secession Calls
Masked Sunni protesters wave Islamist flags while others chant slogans at an anti-government rally in Fallujah, Iraq, Friday, April 26, 2013 (AP Photo) Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tensions continued to...
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Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya Muslims capsize
A protester belonging to the hardline Islamic Defenders Front holds a placard calling to “stop the massacre of Muslim Rohingya and Myanmar Buddhists cowards” during a rally near the Myanmar embassy in...
View ArticleOpinion: Is there any hope for Syria?
This war is unlike other Arab wars; it is a war between the major symbols of different identities, or at least that is how this conflict is being framed. Our past, and our discourse, is sectarian. Last...
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Northern Aleppo’s sectarian strife
Fighters from the Free Syrian Army man a roadblock north of Aleppo on June 5, 2013. (Asharq Al-Awsat photograph)Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the last few days in the northern Aleppo suburbs, more than 20...
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Baghdad acknowledges presence of Iraqi fighters in Syria
Iraqis take part in a funeral for a man said to have been killed during fighting in Syria’s Sit Zeinab neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Damascus, in Basra on May 6, 2013. (AFP Photo/Razmi...
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Myanmar jails Buddhists in Islamic school massacre
In this May 25, 2013 photo, debris is scattered among the ruins of the Himayathul Islamic Boarding School in the Mingalar Zayone neighborhood of Meikhtila, Myanmar. Source: AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe...
View ArticleOpinion: Of Extremism and Counter-extremism
Within days of each other, both France and Britain moved away from their initial enthusiasm to arm the Syrian opposition, adopting the US stance on the issue under the pretext of “the growing influence...
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