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...“Somalia is coming from 30 years of no governments or weak governments where there were either no laws or the laws were not respected,” says Awes Haji Yusuf Ahmed, a veteran political adviser to the president...
...About eight years ago, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein brought an idea to his half-brother, the King of Jordan....
...But standing outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where many of the 1400 people wounded since May 10 were brought, Yusuf, a young man, was forlorn....
...Kuwait faced an existential crisis when Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime invaded in 1990....
...By the end of the year, Saddam Hussein was dead but bin Laden was still nowhere to be found. Afghanistan was very much yesterday’s war....
...“Everybody’s lost leverage over the Taliban,” says Moeed Yusuf, Pakistan’s national security adviser....
...Saleh al-Jasser, the director-general of Saudi Arabian Airlines, was named transport minister in place of Nabil al-Amoudi, whose sacking comes a few weeks after a fire engulfed a railway station in Jeddah...
...When energy markets reopened after the strikes, oil prices soared by as much as 20 per cent — the biggest percentage jump since Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990....
...The Shia-dominated Iraqi government must win round a predominately Sunni Muslim city that was a stronghold of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party and hotbed of al-Qaeda activity....
...Anas offers a portrait of his comrade Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Afghan jihad’s Napoleonic hero....
...other to Yusuf’s son, Abu Musab al-Barnawi....
..., and Hadi al-Ameri, a militia leader turned politician....
...Al Amoudi....
..., head of the political office of Moqtada al Sadr, the populist Shia cleric....
...These include alliances led by Nouri al-Maliki, the former prime minister, and Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia cleric who has formed a bloc that includes the Communist party and is pledging to bring technocrats...
...“He is starting to reverse the Islamophobia of the west,’” said Ahmed Osama, Mr Hussein’s colleague. “He even wears a beard.”...
...If allowed to run, Mr Shafiq could be a serious challenger to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is reaching the end of his first term....
...“Our hope is that these Arab countries hurry up and enter the market,” says Ahmed al-Kinani, a Shia politician who heads parliament’s economic committee and who was formerly aligned with pro-Iran parties...
...Further downstream, in the village of al-Kheir, mayor Hussein al-Yassin has been forced to call in the security forces to break up gun battles over water....
...Emad al-Din Hussein, editor-in-chief of the daily Shorouk newspaper, criticised the regime for an absence of “political engineering”....
...policy, building stronger ties with Iraqi leaders has become a priority to limit Iran’s influence in the country, where it has ties to Shia groups that have dominated Iraqi politics since the fall of Saddam Hussein...
...‘No one could get out alive’ Ahmed, 19, clings to a chain-link fence in an enclosed corner of the Debaga camp, east of Mosul....
...Such sentiments should ring warning bells for Iraqi leaders, says Ahmed Ali, a senior fellow at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniya....
...Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who encouraged the administration of George W Bush to launch its invasion of Iraq, has died of a heart attack aged 71, after a career that was no less controversial than...
...more than 12 hours before US officials in Washington responded and said that they would launch an investigation. ‘’The event is utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal,’’ said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein...
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