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Features Syrians watch Ahmed al-Sharaa's speech at al-Rawda Café in Damascus (Asharq Al-Awsat)

100 Days of Al-Sharaa's Presidency: Syria’s Gains and Losses

The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 sparked a wave of hope for a brighter future in Syria. But 100 days into the rule of Ahmed al-Sharaa…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Laith Shweikeh, 9, sits at his desk at the UNRWA Boys' School run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP)

Palestinian Children in East Jerusalem Could Lose Their Schools as Israeli-Ordered Closures Loom 

Standing in the east Jerusalem school he attended as a young boy, Palestinian construction worker Ahmad Shweikeh studies his son’s careful penmanship. This…

Features Displaced Palestinians snatch bread loaves distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 5, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

Israeli Plan to Seize Gaza Alarms Many: 'What's Left for You to Bomb?'

An Israeli plan to seize the Gaza Strip and expand the military operation has alarmed many in the region. Palestinians are exhausted and hopeless, pummeled by…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Pakistani security officials stand guard outside the Parliament building as members of the National Assembly (Lower House of the Parliament) meet to discuss recent tensions with India, in Islamabad, Pakistan, 05 May 2025. EPA/SOHAIL SHAHZAD

What Curbs Have India and Pakistan Imposed on Each Other after the Kashmir Attack?

Nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan have announced a raft of measures against each other as tensions mount after 26 men were killed in an attack…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Iran's and US' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Iran Talks Tough and Launches Missile All While Seeking a New Nuclear Deal with the US

Iran is talking tough — while still wanting to talk more with the United States over a possible nuclear deal. In the last days, Tehran has backed an attack…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Tulay Hatimogulları speaks at a press conference. Asharq Al-Awsat file photo

Kurdish-Turkish Settlement: Shaping a New Middle East

A string of pivotal developments in recent months has forged new and unprecedented dynamics - mainly related to the Kurdish cause - across the region. The…

Joe Macaron (Diyarbakir)
Features Israel's military deployed tanks in Jenin in late February - AFP

West Bank Palestinians Losing Hope 100 Days into Israeli Assault

On a torn-up road near the refugee camp where she once lived, Saja Bawaqneh said she struggled to find hope 100 days after an Israeli offensive in the occupied…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features A man stands on the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli strike in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip - AFP

'Deadly Blockade' Leaves Gaza Aid Work on Verge of Collapse: UN, Red Cross

Two months into Israel's full blockade on aid into Gaza, humanitarians described Friday horrific scenes of starving, bloodied children and people fighting over…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (X)

Iran Keeps Low Profile in Iraq's Vote, Still Pulls Strings

Iran is allowing rival Shi’ite factions in Iraq to battle it out in a wide-open political arena ahead of the country’s November 2025 elections, adopting a…

Ali Saray (London)
Features FILE - President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov, File)

US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: What We Know

Washington and Kyiv have signed a new minerals deal that will see the United States invest in Ukraine's rare earth and other deposits as it seeks to reduce…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features In this handout photograph posted on the official Facebook account of Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko late on April 30, 2025, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (L) and Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko (R) sign a minerals deal in Washington DC, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  (AFP photo / Facebook account of Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko)

US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: What We Know

Washington and Kyiv have signed a new minerals deal that will see the United States invest in Ukraine's rare earth and other deposits as it seeks to reduce…

Features Palestinian children queue for a hot meal at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on April 30, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Cash Shortage Squeezes Gaza Residents

Even when food is available, many in Gaza cannot afford to buy it, as the enclave suffers from a severe cash shortage. Israel has blocked the entry of new…

Asharq Al Awsat (Gaza)

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Features US President Donald Trump looks on, on the day he welcomes the Super Bowl LIX winner, NFL champion Philadelphia Eagles on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, April 28, 2025. (Reuters)

Numbers That Matter from the First 100 Days of Trump’s Second Term

President Donald Trump's first 100 days back in the White House have been a demolition job — and that's a point of pride for his administration. For the…

Features A drone view shows houses without roofs in Aleppo, Syria, April 19, 2025. (Reuters)

Lacking Aid, Syrians Do What They Can to Rebuild Devastated Aleppo 

Moussa Hajj Khalil is among many Syrians rebuilding their homes from the rubble of the historic and economically important city of Aleppo, as Syria's new…

Features ISIS members in Syria (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

ISIS in Syria Eyes Revival by Exploiting Jihadist Disillusionment

Despite losing its last stronghold in Baghouz near the Iraqi border in Syria’s Deir al-Zor province in March 2019, the ISIS group has continued to pose a…

Sultan al-Kanj
Features Hezbollah fighters shout slogans during the funeral procession of their top commander Fouad Shukur, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike on July 30, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 1, 2024. (AP)

Will a Weakened Hezbollah in Lebanon Disarm? 

Israel's latest airstrike on what it called a Hezbollah missile storage facility in Beirut's southern suburbs came during increasing pressure for the Iran…

Features The flags of US and Iran are displayed in Muscat, Oman, 25 April 2025. Iran and US will hold third round of nuclear talks on 26 April 2025, in Muscat. (EPA)

What to Know about the Tensions between Iran and the US before Their Third Round of Talks

Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Oman, their third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. The talks…

Features Police officers patrol as visitors queue to enter St. Peter's Basilica of the Vatican, viewed in the background, a day prior to the Pope's funeral, in Rome on April 25, 2025. (AFP)

Seating Plan for a Pope’s Funeral – It’s Complicated, or Compliqué

They may be the most powerful people on earth, but for the seating arrangement at Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday, all foreign leaders will play second…

Features Displaced Palestinian girls bake bread at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip - AFP

Moving Heaven, Earth to Make Bread in Gaza

In Gaza, where hunger gnaws and hope runs thin, flour and bread are so scarce that they are carefully divided by families clinging to survival. "Because the…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features One of the Islamic Action Front Party’s offices in Jordan (Party’s official website)

Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan’s Governments: From Alliance to Rupture

The arrival of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, marked by periods of resolution and banning of activities, is not disconnected from the long history of the…

Mohammed Khair al-Rawashdeh (Amman )
Features Iran's and US' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Iran Fortifying Buried Nuclear Sites as Talks with US Continue, Report Says

Iran is ringing two deeply buried tunnel complexes with a massive security perimeter linked to its main nuclear facility, a report said Wednesday, amid US and…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Mohamed Attiya, 54, receives dialysis treatment at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Monday, April 14, 2025.(AP)

Dialysis Patients Struggle to Get Treatment in Blockaded Gaza. Officials Say Hundreds Have Died 

Twice a week, Mohamed Attiya’s wheelchair rattles over Gaza’s scarred roads so he can visit the machine that is keeping him alive. The 54-year-old makes the…

Features Palestinians inspect the damage caused by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday. (AP)

Israeli Intelligence, Financial Incentives Pressure Gaza Residents to Leave the Enclave

Israel’s approach to the issue of displacement in Gaza remains unclear as it resorts to bombing and fear on the one hand, and promises and incentives on the…

Asharq Al Awsat (Gaza)
Features Pope Francis poses for selfie photos with migrants at a regional migrant center in Bologna, Italy, Oct. 1, 2017. (AP)

Defending Migrants Was a Priority for Pope Francis from the Earliest Days of His Papacy 

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis' top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, skyrocketing numbers of migrants in the…

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