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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CIA Director Calls Assad ‘Puppet of the Iranians’

London- CIA Director Mike Pompeo has launched a scathing attack on Iran, accusing it of adopting an expansionist policy to pursue regional hegemony and dubbing the head of the Syrian regime a “puppet of the Iranians.” The defeat of ISIS is America’s top priority at the moment, Pompeo said Thursday b

An EU Rubber-Boat Ban Won’t Stop Migrants

If it looks as though Europe is clutching at straws to stop hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants from crossing the Mediterranean into Italy every day, that’s exactly what’s happening. On Monday, the European Union’s foreign ministers approved restrictions on the supply of inf

Saudi Arabia, Russia to Improve Economic Cooperation

Riyadh- Asharq Al-Awsat has learned that the Saudi-Russian committee will convene in October amid expectations that this meeting will transform economic cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy, gas and oil. These expectations coincide with calls for removing obstacles that are

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Libya: Haftar, Sarraj to Meet in Paris Soon

Cairo – The French capital will host next week a meeting between Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the Libyan National Army, and head of Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj, well-informed Libyan sources told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. The meeting falls within