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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Opinion: War on Sunni Arabs

What we see today in Iraq and Syria is not in the favour of Sunni Arabs. We will not talk about Khomeinist Iran because it is an adversary and tries hard to harm the Arabs and Sunnis. Neither will we talk about Russia, who is like Iran but has different motives. We are talking about […]

Syrian, Russian Air Raid Hit Market in East, Kill 17

Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out an air raid on a market in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on Monday killing at least 17 people, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported. The strikes hit the town of Ashara, about 60 km (40 miles) southeast of the provincial capital,

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Hezbollah Fallback in Arsal, Syria

Beirut-Over the last few days, previously known frequent clashes ravaging the town of Arsal on the Lebanon-Syria border have been reduced to sporadic shelling and attacks staged among the Syrian Opposition, al-Nusra Front and the so-called Lebanese Hezbollah militants. Syrian sources also told Ashar