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Features Voters head into a polling location to cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the 2024 election on November 1, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Getty Images/AFP)

Win the Vote but Still Lose? Behold America’s Electoral College

When political outsider Donald Trump defied polls and expectations to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election, he described the victory as …

Features Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Atrium Health Amphitheater in Macon, Georgia, on November 3, 2024. (AFP)

A Presidential Campaign Unlike Any Other Ends on Tuesday. Here’s How We Got Here

It's the election that no one could have foreseen. Not so long ago, Donald Trump was marinating in self-pity at Mar-a-Lago after being impeached twice and…

Features People cast their ballots on the last day of early voting for the general election in Michigan at the Livingston Educational Service Agency in Howell, Michigan on November 3, 2024. (AFP)

Here’s What to Watch as Election Day Approaches in the US

Election Day is nearly upon us. In a matter of hours, the final votes in the 2024 presidential election will be cast. In a deeply divided nation, the…

Features UN workers clean up after the Israeli raid - AFP

West Bank Refugee Camp Gets Foretaste of UNRWA's Demise

Residents of Nur Shams camp in the occupied West Bank are fearful for their future after an Israeli raid this week damaged the UN agency for Palestinian…

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Features Palestinian fishermen work, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, along the coast of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Amid War and Deep Hunger, Gaza Fishermen Struggle to Feed Families

After over a year of war in Gaza, Palestinian fishermen gather along the coastline, desperately casting their nets in hopes of catching enough for their…

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Features Yahya Sinwar 

Asharq Al-Awsat Uncovers New Details on Sinwar’s Movements During the Gaza Conflict

Reliable information from Asharq Al-Awsat sources within and close to Hamas reveals that Israel nearly captured the group's leader, Yahya Sinwar, at least five…

Asharq Al Awsat (Gaza)
Features  This Oct. 24 2024, satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the village of Ramyah in southern Lebanon. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Israel’s Path of Destruction in Southern Lebanon Raises Fears of an Attempt to Create a Buffer Zone

Perched on a hilltop a short walk from the Israeli border, the tiny southern Lebanese village of Ramyah has almost been wiped off the map. In a neighboring…

Features A view shows what they say is a "Hwasong-19" missile being launched at an undisclosed location in this screengrab obtained from a video released on November 1, 2024. (KRT/via Reuters TV/Handout via Reuters)

North Korea Boasts of ‘The World’s Strongest’ Missile, but Experts Say It’s Too Big to Use in War

North Korea boasted Friday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile it just test-launched is "the world’s strongest," a claim seen as pure propaganda…

Features Aita al-Shaab is just one south Lebanon village where homes have been demolished - AFP

Lebanese 'Orphaned of Their Land' as Israel Blows up Homes

The news came by video. Law professor Ali Mourad discovered that Israel had dynamited his family's south Lebanon home only after footage of the operation was…

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Features Health ministry figures reveal at least 1,829 people have been killed inside Lebanon since Israel's full scare war started - AFP

Some Defiant South Lebanese Stay Put in Face of Israeli Fire

Cattle farmer Khairallah Yaacoub refused to leave south Lebanon despite a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes. When full-scale war erupted, he and four others…

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Features Democratic presidential nominee, US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Alliant Energy Center on October 30, 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin. Harris and her opponent, Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, are currently in a dead heat in the swing state.   Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Kamala or Harris? How to Thread the Needle on Politics, Gender and Race

What's in a name? For Kamala Harris, it's a way to assert her own authority, implicitly celebrate her identity -- and blunt attacks by her White House rival,…

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Features UNRWA center targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza (DPA)

UNRWA Employee Shares with Asharq Al-Awsat Experience of Investigation

Palestinian sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has stepped up its…

Asharq Al Awsat (Gaza)
Features  Two-year-old Ivana Skayki, who suffered third-degree burns over nearly half of her body from an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, lies in bed at Geitaoui Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon October 30, 2024. (Reuters)

Lebanon’s Only Burn Unit Treats Toddlers after Israeli Strikes

Wrapped in gauze from her head to her tiny toes, toddler Ivana Skayki lies nearly motionless in a hospital bed much too big for her. For weeks, she has been…

Features  Israeli military members mourn soldier Major Guy Yaacov Nezri, who was killed amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, during his funeral at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Atlit, northern Israel, October 29, 2024. (Reuters)

Israel Short on Soldiers after Year of War

More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army's reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in…

Features Lebanese in Beirut watch Naim Qassem deliver a speech. (Reuters)

What We Know About Hezbollah’s Shura Council

If it is confirmed that Hezbollah’s Shura Council has met and elected Sheikh Naim Qassem as the party’s new secretary-general, this would indicate two…

Paula Astih (Beirut)
Features Displaced Lebanese people who fled Israeli bombardment in their country to find shelter shop at a market in al-Qassem town in Iraq's central Babylon province on October 20, 2024. (AFP)

Iraq Opens Arms to Lebanese Fleeing Israeli Attacks

Israeli bombardment of Lebanon forced Mohammed Fawaz and his family to flee so often that they finally moved many kilometers (miles) away to find respite in…

Features FILE - Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

UNRWA, a Lifeline for Palestinians amid Decades of Conflict

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, whose operations in Israel were banned by the Israeli parliament on Monday, is seen by some as an "irreplaceable"…

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Features Israeli tanks take position at the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, October 15, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo

Palestinians Say 100,000 Residents Trapped in Israel's North Gaza Assault

Israeli tanks thrust deeper on Monday into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency…

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Features Smoke billows over southern Lebanon, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from northern Israel, October 28, 2024. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Israeli Campaign Leaves Lebanese Border Towns in Ruins, Satellite Images Show

Israel's military campaign in southern Lebanon has caused vast destruction in more than a dozen border towns and villages, reducing many of them to clusters of…

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Features People carry possessions on a pirogue over flood water flowing over a main road in Odobere on October 22, 2024. (AFP)

Climate Change-Worsened Floods Wreak Havoc in Africa

Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu's house in central Nigeria. It is always the same story -- the…

Features  US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two at Joint Base in Maryland on October 27, 2024. (AFP)

Kamala Harris: Can Underestimated Trailblazer Beat Trump?

The call that upended everything for Kamala Harris came on a Sunday morning in July as the US vice president did a jigsaw puzzle at home with her grand-nieces…

Features Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images/AFP)

The Unsinkable Donald Trump

He was impeached twice, found liable in fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits, convicted of dozens of felonies and has been declared politically dead again and again…

Features This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Khojir military base outside of Tehran, Iran, Oct. 8, 2024. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iran Faces Tough Choices in Deciding How to Respond to Israeli Strikes

It's Iran's move now. How Iran chooses to respond to the unusually public Israeli aerial assault on its homeland could determine whether the region spirals…

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Features Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP)

Will Rising Israeli Losses in War on Hezbollah Lead it to Agree to a Ceasefire?

A prevailing impression is growing in Lebanon that the only way for Israel to end its war on Hezbollah is when its losses on the ground become too great for it…

Caroline Akoum (Beirut)