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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Netanyahu: I Secretly Met El-Sisi, Abdullah II

Tel Aviv – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Sunday he met secretly a year ago with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Southern Jordanian town of Aqaba. Israel’s Haaretz daily said on Sunday that the three leaders met in the pre

Explosion in Colombia Injures At Least 31 People

An explosion near Bogota’s bullring injured at least 31 people, most of them police officers as they prepared for protests in Colombia’s capital on Sunday, the mayor’s office said. Details of the cause of the blast were not immediately available, but media images showed a police of

Lavrov Announces Truce in Eastern Ukraine

Munich, Moscow- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced on Saturday that a truce in eastern Crimea will start as of Monday. The agreement was reached after a meeting in Germany’s Munich in which each of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France participated. “On Feb. 20 the ceasefire regime

Founder of Gamaa Islamiya Dies in Prison in U.S.

London – Omar Abdul Rahman, spiritual leader of Gamaa Islamiya, died in his prison in the United States, sources confirmed. Kenneth McKoy of the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., said Abdul Rahman died at 5:40 a.m. He suffered from diabetes and coronary artery disease and had been at the