Asharq Al-Awsat Editorial

Editorial desk and wire-service reports (AFP, Reuters, AP) as published in the Asharq Al-Awsat English Edition. This archive preserves the original text (2005–2017); attribution appears in the article dateline where provided by the source.

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Trapped ISIS Militants Target Mosul’s Displaced

Mosul – While Iraqi forces advanced on Thursday on the Grand al-Nuri Mosque in central Mosul where ISIS militants are fortified in one third of the western city’s remaining pockets, the terrorist organization shelled mortars at hundreds of displaced people escaping the Zanjili district, killin

Faceless Fish, Bizarre Creatures Found in Australia

Sydney, London- Two weeks into a world-first exploration of a deep-sea abyss, Australian scientists have uncovered all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures, including a “faceless fish” found for the first time since decades. An international group of 40 scientists and researchers have

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Foreign Intervention and the UK General Elections

The UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments on the Manchester suicide bombing, suggesting that “Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here