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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Most Luxurious Apartments in Tunisia Find no Buyers

Tunisia- Tunisian real estate market has lately witnessed a relative rebound with thousands of tourists and foreigners pouring into the country and the Tunisian diaspora returning and investing a huge share of its incomes in the real estate sector. However, President of the Association of Property D

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There is Something Very Wrong with Donald Trump

One wonders if Republican leaders have begun to realize that they may have hitched their fate and the fate of their party to a man with a disordered personality. We can leave it to the professionals to determine exactly what to call it. Why denigrate the parents of a soldier who died serving his cou

12 Premature Babies Dead in Baghdad Hospital Blaze

At least 12 prematurely born babies were killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Wednesday in one of Baghdad’s largest maternity hospitals and was probably caused by an electrical fault, the health ministry said. Seven other babies and 29 women were rescued from the Yarmuk hospit

Iraqi Court Releases Jabouri

Baghdad-Hours after the parliamentary vote to strip Iraq’s Speaker Salim al-Jabouri of his immunity, Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council dropped charges against him and closed the case. Supreme Judicial Council spokesman Judge Abdul Sattar Bayraqdar said in a statement on Tuesday: “The investigative comm

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Christians of Mosul in Iraqi Novel

Beirut-Naufal House of Publishing and “Hachette Antoine” for Publishing have issued “Yuliana,” a novel by Iraqi writer Nizar Abdul Sattar. The book is composed of 256 pages and talks about a story that took place between Keremlis and Mosul in 1929-1987. The novel tells the story of Jejo and Hanna’s

Opinion: Nadia Murad – The Story That Shames Us

A young girl, members of her family, girls from her village and from Iraqi Yazidi villages were kidnapped by ISIS fighters who gang raped them. All of this was done in the name of Islam and under its banner at a time when there are still a handful of extremists among us who publicly and […]