18th and 19th century The wave of Atlantic Revolutions occurring at the end of the 18th century, including the American Revolution (1776), the French Revolution (1789), the Haitian Revolution (1791) a ...
Hezbollah has long been an ally of the Ba'ath government of Syria, led by the Al-Assad family. Hezbollah has helped the Syrian government during the Syrian civil war in its fight against the Syrian op ...
Hezbollah organizes an extensive social development program and runs hospitals, news services,and educational facilities. One of its established institutions, Jihad Al Binna's Reconstruction Campaign, ...
HistoryMain article: History of Hezbollah1980sMain articles: Lebanese civil war and South Lebanon conflict (1982–2000)Hezbollah emerged in South Lebanon as a consolidation of Shia militias and standi ...
Palestinian Governorates Main article: Governorates of the Palestinian National AuthorityNorthern GovernoratesAfter the signing of the Oslo Accords, the West Bank was divided into 11 governorates unde ...
From 1517 through 1917, the area now known as the West Bank was under Ottoman rule as part of the provinces of Syria.20th century At the 1920 San Remo conference, the victorious Allied powers (France, ...
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, also known as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is a Palestinian militant organization operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The group has been labelled ...
British rule (1923–1948) Gaza War Cemetery.The Palestine Mandate was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 A ...
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other Human rights groups have protested both the routing of the wall and the means by which the land to build the wall was obtained. The Israeli women of ...
Israelis most commonly refer to the barrier as the "separation (hafrada) fence" (About this sound ??? ?????? (help·info), Geder HaHafrada) and "security fence" or "anti-terrorist fence", wit ...
The Second Intifada, which started in September 2000, showed an escalation of mutual violence. In March 2002, Israel launched a major military operation in the West Bank, dubbed Operation Defensive Sh ...
During its time in power, the Taliban regime, or "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan", gained diplomatic recognition from only three states: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, all of wh ...
After the September 11 attacks on the U.S. and the PENTTBOM investigation, the United States made the following demands of the Taliban,Deliver to the U.S. all of the leaders of Al-QaedaRelease all for ...
The word Taliban is Pashto, ?????? ?ālibān, meaning "students", the plural of ?ālib. This is a loanword from Arabic ???? ?ālib, plus the Persian plural ending -ān ?? (the Arabic pl ...
During the four elections during which he ran to represent Illinois's 13th congressional district, Rumsfeld received shares of the popular vote that ranged from 57.82% (in 1964) to 76.01% (in 1966). I ...
