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Features An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services IAD10 data center on August 26, 2026 in Sterling, Virginia. (Getty Images/AFP)

Not Just Nvidia: These Power and Cooling Firms Are Riding the Trillion-Dollar Data Center Boom

While Nvidia is synonymous with the AI boom, a lesser-known group of power and cooling equipment suppliers is cashing in on a global data center construction…

Features Imam Musa al-al-Sadr. (File photo)

What Al-Gaddafi’s Inner Circle Said about Musa Al-Sadr’s Disappearance

Fifteen years after the fall of Moammar al-Gaddafi’s regime, the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr, head of Lebanon’s Supreme…

Ghassan Charbel (Riyadh)
Features An undated handout photo of rescue workers taking part in a rescue operation near the tunnel of the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project, following deadly flash floods and mudslides, in Rasuwa, Nepal. (Nepal Army/Handout via Reuters)

Nepal Floods Expose Risks to Hydropower in a Warming Himalayas

Workers shoveled thick mud from a flood-ravaged power station in central Nepal this week, trying to restore electricity to more than 20,000 people. The…

Features Bashar al-Assad during his father’s funeral in June 2000. (AFP)

72 Hours that Arranged the Succession: Khaddam Recalls What Happened after Hafez al-Assad's Death

Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam’s recent memoirs tackle the three days that followed the death of the late President Hafez al-Assad on June 10…

Asharq Al Awsat (London)
Features Displaced woman, Randa al-Taki, 51, and her daughter Fatima Haidar, 11, arrange their clothes inside their makeshift room that set on a basketball court inside a public school turned into a shelter for people whose villages in southern Lebanon were destroyed or occupied by Israeli forces, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (AP)

School Starts Soon in Lebanon but Thousands Still Shelter in Them During War

Eleven-year-old Fatima Khashab helps her mother tidy the small area where their family sleeps, in a row of makeshift living quarters in a school gymnasium. …

Features People walk near an anti-US mural in Tehran, Iran, July 15, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters

Investors Prosper and Consumers Pay as the Iran War Exacts an Uneven Economic Toll 6 Months in

As the US and Israel relentlessly bombed Iran in the opening days of war, the most dramatic predictions of the conflict’s toll were unsparing: surging oil…

Features This US Navy handout photo released on July 15, 2026 and taken on June 30 by US Central Command Public Affairs shows the Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 flying in formation over the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Arabian Sea. (AFP / US Central Command Public Affairs)

US Military Families Ride ‘Roller Coaster of Emotions’ Over Six Months of Iran War

Since the United States went to war with Iran six months ago, Courtney Sanders has been helping soldiers’ families fill the gaps left by their loved ones. …

Features In an aerial view, the Stargate Oracle AI data center campus is seen on August 26, 2026 in Abilene, Texas. (Getty Images/AFP)

Data Center Backlash Scrambles US Midterm Politics

The data centers powering America's artificial intelligence boom have become an unlikely target in November's midterm elections, as anger over rising…

Features This photo taken on August 7, 2026 shows Palestinian woman Dania Abu Haikal, mother of seven-month-old Sam, who was killed by Israeli forces whilst sitting on his mother's lap in the car, stands for portrait while holding her late son's teddy bear in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. (AFP)

Killing of Palestinian Children and Teens by Israel Surges in West Bank

Alia al-Hallaq's son Mohammed was nine when he was killed by an Israeli army bullet last October, but the Palestinian homemaker still speaks of herself as a…

Features Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC, US, March 6, 2018. (Reuters)

Pro-Israel Lobby Spends Big on US Midterms as Backlash Grows

The most powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States is spending more than any other outside group on the 2026 midterms -- even as its once-coveted backing…

Features  This satellite image provided by Vantor shows destruction at Syapru Besi, Nepal on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026. (Satellite image ©2026 Vantor via AP)

Satellite Images Show Bedrock and Glacier Collapsed on Nepal-China Border, Then Rivers Flooded

As rescue teams searched for missing people following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border, Earth scientists reviewed satellite imagery for clues…

Features US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out plans this week to strangle Iran's economy. Kent NISHIMURA / AFP

China's Help Critical, But Unlikely, for US to Choke off Iran

The United States has threatened the "economic asphyxiation" of Iran, but analysts say that a successful chokehold would require unlikely cooperation from…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrives in Jeddah with firsthand experience of some of the region’s most complex crises. (Organization of Islamic Cooperation)

Ould Cheikh Ahmed: From Mediation to OIC Leadership

After more than three decades in UN posts and crisis zones, Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed is set to take the helm of the 57-member Organization…

Asma al Ghabri (Jeddah)
Features Vessels are seen in the Strait of Hormuz, off the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on August 10, 2026. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP) /

After Six Months of Iran War, US Goals Have Shifted. The Strait of Hormuz is Now a Top Concern

When President Donald Trump launched the war with Iran in late February, he initially forecast it would last four to five weeks. Six months later, there's…

Asharq Al Awsat
Features A photo shows late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi with Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah (second from left) upon the latter's arrival in the capital Tripoli, a day after his definitive acquittal in the plane bombing case (Tripoli, February 1, 2001) (Getty Images)

Death of Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah: The Libyan Who Escaped the Noose of the Lockerbie Case

On August 25, 2026, in a quiet corner of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the life of Libyan citizen Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah came quietly to an end at the age of…

Kawtar Wakil (London)
Features Boys fly a kite against the backdrop of smoke rising from the Gath shelter, that houses displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli air strike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip on January 31, 2026. (AFP)

Gaza’s Children Lose Simple Joy as Israel Warns Against Kite-Flying

There are few joys left for 10-year-old Ahmed Hamdouna, whose childhood has already been scarred by years of war and displacement in Gaza. Now, what little…

Features UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) vehicles drive in the Lebanese village of Wazzani near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, July 6, 2023. (Reuters)

From UNIFIL to Verification Committees... Will Int’l Force in Lebanon Have Expanded Powers?

With UNIFIL’s departure now all but certain, the question is no longer whether the UN force will remain in southern Lebanon, but who will replace it, and with…

Soubhi Amhaz (Beirut)
Features Palestinian child Al-Baraa Abdel Aal, who has diabetes, was forced to use expired medication in Gaza (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Gaza’s Diabetes Patients Face a War Without Respite

Diabetes patients in the Gaza Strip are fighting two battles without respite - the fallout from an Israeli offensive that began nearly three years ago despite…

Asharq Al Awsat (Gaza)
Features Tugboat Al-Hani begins operations at Zueitina port (National Oil Corporation)

From Wells to Budget: Where Does Libya’s Oil Money Go?

Libya depends on oil for nearly 98% of its income. Yet a central question persists: How are those revenues collected and spent in a country divided between…

Jamal Jawhar (Cairo)
Features Fishermen check their nets and small boats on the seashore in the port city of Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran on August 10, 2026. (AFP)

Bandar Abbas, Iran’s Trade Hub on Hormuz Thrust to Frontline of US War

With a long shoreline on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's southern trade hub of Bandar Abbas has found itself at the frontlines of the war with the United States,…

Features Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. Photo: Foreign Ministry

The Ethiopian Dam Dispute and Egypt’s ‘Right to Self-Defense’

Over the past two weeks, Egypt has repeatedly stressed its right to prevent any actions by Addis Ababa on the Nile River that could harm its water interests,…

Mohamed Mahmoud (Cairo)
Features A locomotive is seen at the Woljeong-ri Station in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, in South Korea, near the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea on August 10, 2026. (AFP)

Train to Nowhere? South Korea’s Lonely Push for Peace with the North

Near the heavily fortified frontier dividing the Korean peninsula, the abandoned Woljeong-ri station is being recast as a symbol of South Korea's hopes to…

Features Marwan Khreesat (Facebook)

Lockerbie Specter Returns in Netflix Drama: Who Was Bombmaker Marwan Khreesat?

In the shadow world of Palestinian factional operations and intelligence wars that defined the 1970s and 1980s, few names were as mysterious or controversial…

Kawtar Wakil (London)
Features A female lion sleeps inside a cage at a zoo in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, August 12, 2026. (Reuters)

At a Gaza Zoo, War Takes Its Toll on the Animals

As children walked into the zoo near Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, they found a lion barely looking back at them through the bars of its cage and chimpanzees…