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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Exchanging Fire across The Tigris, Iraq

An Iraqi soldier, after spotting a bulldozer across the Tigris River, alerted his elite unit, which fired a missile with a boom so loud it blew a metal door behind the soldiers off its hinges. “The terrorist driving that bulldozer is burning. He is cooked,” said Mostafa Majeed, the soldi

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Opinion: A Russian Constitution For Syria

All attention focussed on Astana to see Moscow’s seriousness about pushing for a cease-fire, releasing 13,000 people that are detained in the Syrian regime’s prisons and delivering aid to besieged areas after there was a glimmer of hope for a peaceful solution to end the relentless war waged b

Bahraini Justice Looks in Cases of Three Gangs

Manama – Bahraini Public Prosecution announced that the High Criminal Court and the Appeal Court will look in February in three criminal cases of 20 individuals accused of torturing youths and robbing possessions in an excuse that the victims are cooperating with the police and notifying them