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When 600 armed men laid siege to Mecca’s Grand Mosque for 2 weeks in 1979
10+ hour, 19+ min ago (929+ words) Tuesday’s attempted drone attack on Mecca in Saudi Arabia has revived memories of the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque. On November 20, around 600 men, led by preacher Juhayman al-Utaybi, seized the vast complex, taking all of its occupants hostage. It took…...
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan: The Emerging Geopolitical Triangle in the Horn of Africa
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (1061+ words) “Geography is the mother of history. Nowhere in the world is this more powerfully illustrated than in Africa.” — Ali A. Mazrui, The Africans: A Triple Heritage For decades, relations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have largely been reduced to a…...
From the archives: USS George Washington at Yokosuka, 2008
10+ min ago (69+ words) Follow Stars and Stripes Pacific Yokosuka, Japan, September 25, 2008: Navy Airman Chavia Jones, left, joins more than 400 USS George Washington sailors on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck for a first glimpse of Japan, as the ship steams into Yokosuka Naval Base....
How a 17th-century Yemeni ‘sorcerer’ anticipated the modern playbook of the Houthis
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (375+ words) For hundreds of years, winds carrying coffee, spices and gold also carried foreign gods past the walls Islam had put up against the world. Travellers to Aden encountered the story of a great well dug from Ujjain to the Seraj…...
Mecca alert revives memories of 1979 Grand Mosque siege: What happened 47 years ago
7+ hour, 32+ min ago (774+ words) Saudi Arabia’s reported interception of a Houthi drone near Mecca has revived memories of one of the most traumatic episodes in the modern history of the kingdom: the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque by an armed Islamist group. The two…...
Lebanese Immigrant Hilwie Hamdon Helped Build Canada's First Mosque
11+ hour, 8+ min ago (1299+ words) Canada’s first mosque was built with borrowed blueprints and CAD 5,000 raised door to door. Nearly 90 years later, its story is still tied to a community that keeps growing. Canada's first mosque doesn't quite look like a mosque at all - at…...
Mecca alert revives memories of 1979 Grand Mosque siege: What happened 47 years ago- Moneycontrol.com
7+ hour, 32+ min ago (798+ words) Saudi Arabia’s reported interception of a Houthi drone near Mecca has revived memories of one of the most traumatic episodes in the modern history of the kingdom: the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque by an armed Islamist group. The two…...
Hope for Lebanon museum gets brighter after council action taken
16+ hour, 30+ min ago (95+ words) Lebanon Local Hope for Lebanon museum gets brighter after council action taken Eight years after an ad hoc committee was formed to pursue the establishment of a museum in Lebanon, one of the biggest hurdles – if not the biggest hurdle…...
Japan loses contact with a surveillance drone off the country's northwestern coast
23+ hour, 34+ min ago (116+ words) livingstonenterprise.net Japan loses contact with a surveillance drone off the country's northwestern coast Other items that may interest you South African police issue alert after seventh woman's … Houthi official says Saudi airstrikes leave 3 dead, … Japan loses contact with a…...
The Rumor That Followed Hafez for Centuries
14+ hour, 55+ min ago (31+ words) During the Safavid period in Iran, when tensions and conflicts between the Safavid and Ottoman empires were widespread, a belief spread that one of …...