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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Tunisia Reduces Poverty from 20.5% to 15.2%

Tunisia- The poverty rate in Tunisia was down from 20.5% to 15.2% in the period extending from 2010 to 2015, as per a quinquennial survey on consumption made public by Hédi Saidi, the general director of the National Institute of Statistics. “From 2010 to 2015, the poverty rate went from 42.3% to 30

Iranian-Palestinian Ties Lose Grounds

Ramallah – Iran has always bragged about providing different Palestinian resistance forces with unlimited and unconditional support; it has claimed that the Palestinian Cause is a priority to build relations with other parties. These claims justify Tehran’s cold relation with the Palestinian A

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Ten Convicts Escape Bahraini Prison Jau

Manama – A terrorist cell of four or five members, armed with automatic rifles and pistols, was involved in an attack on the Reformation and Rehabilitation Centre (Jau) at approximately 5:30 am on Sunday. Ten inmates, all convicted in previous terrorist cases, escaped the prison. Ministry of Interio

King Salman Receives a Message from Emir of Kuwait

Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received a message from Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait at al-Yamamah Palace on Sunday. The message was conveyed to the King by Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minis

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Rising Football Stars: 10 Players to Watch in 2017

Naby Keïta (RB Leipzig, 21) Keïta was relatively unheralded outside Austria when he left RB Salzburg – to all intents a sister club to Leipzig – in the summer after a two-year stay but he had already been named the country’s player of the year and cannot be a million miles from a similar honour [&he

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Saudi Arabia: Successes and Challenges

Riyadh – King Salman finishes his second year in office on Sunday as Saudi Arabia’s seventh monarch, according to Islamic calendar. During this time, he proved in planning a state with institutionalized and modern law, run by the second and third generation in kingdom’s ruling while maintaining the

‘Map of Control’ in Yemen

Taiz – Yemen bids farewell to 2016 with its territories controlled by different parties, while the legitimate forces succeeded in liberating some regions, other parts have remained under the control of Houthis and supporters of Ali Abdullah Saleh. The map of control of Yemeni territories: Azal

Oman’s Surprise!

Oman joining the Islamic Military Coalition will definitely be mentioned as one of the most important events witnessed by Gulf arena in 2016. The importance does not lie in the addition of another Islamic state to the coalition, which includes 41 of them, noting that the coalition’s military potenti

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2017 might be Better!

This is the first day of the new year, and it will be like any other day of the previous years. Hundreds of thousands, and maybe millions of Syrians will spend their sad winter nights in the cold, with little to eat and few covers to keep them warm. There are millions of others who […]