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- City.htm Satellite View and Map of the City of Kuwait-City (Madīnat al-Kūwait), Kuwait] One World - Nations Online * [https://www.cia.gov/the ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
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- City.htm Satellite View and Map of the City of Kuwait-City (Madīnat al-Kūwait), Kuwait] One World - Nations Online * [https://www.cia.gov/the ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf, enclosed by Saudi Arabia to the south ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- The Persian Gulf is located in Southwest Asia. It is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Historically ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according to the United Nations Statistics Division, [https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/ ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- The Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية šabah al-jazīra al- ʻ arabīyya or جزيرة العرب jazīrat al- ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- Doha ( الدوحة , Ad-Dawḥah or Ad-Dōḥah ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. Its metropolitan area is home ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- The Gulf War (August 28, 1990 – February 28, 1991) was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, KBE (January 17, 1933 – May 12, 2003), served as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1966 to 1978 ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments; it is essentially a small natural horn with no valves. All pitch control is done by varying ...10 KB (1,584 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- The Iran-Iraq War, also called the First Persian Gulf War, or the Imposed War (جنگتحمیلی) in Iran, was a war between the armed forces ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- category:Image wanted {{Infobox Writer | name = Ian Lancaster Fleming | birthdate = 1908|5|28|mf=y | birthplace = Mayfair, London, England ...25 KB (3,815 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Baghdad ( بغداد Baġdād ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, which it is also coterminous with. With a municipal population ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- Amman, sometimes spelled Ammann (Arabic عمان ʿAmmān), is the capital, largest city, and economic center of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:Goya War3.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Etching by Goya.]] Hanging is the suspension of a person ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Saddam, pronounced [sˁɑd'dæːm], is his personal name, means the stubborn one or he who confronts ...67 KB (10,170 words) - 20:39, 17 April 2023
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- BP p.l.c., previously known as British Petroleum, is the third largest global energy company, a multinational oil company ("oil major" ...36 KB (5,440 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Bedouin_Resting.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Bedouin resting ...21 KB (3,226 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023
- The United Arab Emirates (also the UAE or the Emirates) is a Middle Eastern country situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- George Herbert Walker Bush (June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America (1989–1993). Prior to ...41 KB (6,218 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern country spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- A Copt refers to a native Egyptian Christian. The word "Coptic" was originally used in Classical Arabic to refer to Egyptians in general ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- Fennec or fennec fox is the common name for a small, nocturnal canid, Vulpes zerda (synonym Fennecus zerda), characterized by very large, pointed ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 23:29, 20 July 2022
- Dubai (in Arabic: دبيّ, Dubayy, /dʊ'baɪ/ in English) is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- The Taif Agreement was negotiated in Taif, Saudi Arabia by the surviving members of Lebanon's 1972 parliament—fathered by Parliament Speaker ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 02:56, 27 February 2023
- Hussein bin Ali (1852 – 1931) (حسین بن علی, Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī) was the Sharif of Mecca, and Emir of Mecca from 1908 until 1917 ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- Category:Image wanted Sayyid Abul Ala al-Maududi (Urdu: سيد ابو الاعلى مودودی, Arabic: سيد أبو الأعلى المودودي; ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). While differing in their liturgical ...27 KB (4,042 words) - 02:32, 1 October 2020
- The term Arab (Arabic: عرب ʻarab ) generally refers to those persons who speak Arabic as their native tongue. There are estimated to be over ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين al-ʿAbbāsidīn ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 07:16, 13 June 2023
- The Euphrates River is the western of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Tigris River. The two rivers have their ...12 KB (1,782 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- The Five Pillars of Islam refers to "the five duties incumbent on every Muslim," consisting of the shahadah (profession of faith), ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- Colin Luther Powell, KCB, MSC, (April 5, 1937 - October 18, 2021) was an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States ...38 KB (5,777 words) - 22:30, 7 January 2024
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية , al-Mamlaka al-ʻArabiyya as-Saʻūdiyya) is the largest country ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- The Iran-Contra affair was a political scandal revealed in 1986 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration. It began as an ...39 KB (5,798 words) - 12:59, 6 March 2024
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 to assist the United States Congress and Supreme Court access legal documents ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi (March 26, 1940 - ) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House ...46 KB (6,718 words) - 20:14, 3 January 2023
- Yasser Arafat (Arabic: ياسر عرفات) (August 24 or August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004) was born in CairoIrwin Abrams (ed.), [http://nobelprize ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- Ramadan (also spelled Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of ...25 KB (3,551 words) - 00:32, 8 December 2022
- Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company. He built an oil empire ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- Osama bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن) (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- Sabri Khalil al-Banna (May 1937 – August 16, 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian ...43 KB (6,718 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- Mesopotamia Mezopotamya; Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamíā; بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن ar|Bilād ar-Rāfidayn or ar|بَيْنُ ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- Willy Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (December 18, 1913 – October 8, 1992), was a German politician, chancellor of West Germany (1969–1974 ...21 KB (3,209 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- A state religion (also called an official religion, established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- Arabic literature (Arabic ,الأدب العربي ) Al-Adab Al-Arabi, is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by speakers (not necessarily ...44 KB (6,658 words) - 21:28, 11 August 2023
- Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil is a naturally ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- Ahmedabad ( અમદાવાદ Amdāvād , Hindi: अहमदाबाद Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- Daimler AG ( DE0007100000 ) (formerly Daimler-Benz AG, DaimlerChrysler AG) is a German car corporation (not to be confused with the British Daimler ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 00:05, 24 June 2022
- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was designed to address the failings ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located on the southern ...31 KB (4,281 words) - 22:29, 15 May 2024
- Shi'a Islam or Shi`ism (from the Arabic word شيعة, Persian: شیعه) is the second largest school within Islam. Shi'a Muslims ...24 KB (3,795 words) - 14:11, 27 January 2023
- A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, that is generally used symbolically by a nation, state, or organization, however ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Category:Media Organizations Category:Image wanted [[Image:Al Jazeera mews room under construction by ashour jsc.jpg|thumb|300px|Al Jazeera newsroom ...22 KB (3,270 words) - 04:21, 17 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Military An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts of the armed forces ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by the President and the Secretary of State. Less formal foreign policy is conducted ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means of coercion, often the ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
- Date palm or date is the common name for a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, characterized by pinnate, "feather-like" gray-green leaves ...25 KB (3,862 words) - 22:43, 28 March 2023
- Elapidae, whose members are known as elapids, is a family of venomous snakes characterized by hollow, permanently erect, relatively short fangs ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- Fiji, officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Vanuatu, west of Tonga and south of ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[File:Princess Beatrice mourning.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The five daughters of Queen ...23 KB (3,744 words) - 01:46, 11 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic name of the country (Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiya) translates to The Western ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (September 2, 1924 - February 4, 2020) was the President of Kenya from 1978 until 2002. He entered Parliament in 1955 ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- The Six-Day War (Arabic: حرب الأيام الستة, ħarb al‑ayyam as‑sitta ; Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים, Milhemet Sheshet ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- Sayyid Qutb ; October 9, 1906 (The Library of Congress has his birth year as 1903) – August 29, 1966) was an Egyptian intellectual author, ...31 KB (4,669 words) - 02:31, 21 April 2023
- <!-- 1955 Reclamation of Goa Video import glitch & Portuguese Empire template division symbols showing. --> {{Infobox Indian Jurisdiction| ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest in the world. It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078 ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[Image:Degas- La classe de danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- Turkmenistan (also known as Turkmenia) is a country in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen Soviet Socialist ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (July 9, 1916 – July 17, 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader ...28 KB (4,351 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous land empire, the Mongol Empire, ever established. He was the son of Yesugei ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn), is an island country in the Persian Gulf ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Evstafiev-travnik-refugees.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated between India and China. A strategic location, it controls several key Himalayan ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
- Mohammad Mosaddeq ( Fa-مصدق.ogg|Mossadeq ) ( محمد مصدق Moḥammad Moṣaddeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (June 16, 1882 – March ...33 KB (4,921 words) - 19:30, 9 November 2022
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا شاه پهلوی) (October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980), styled ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (جمهوری اسلامی ايران, transliteration: Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- Nepal, known officially as the State of Nepal, is a landlocked Himalayan country in South Asia. It is a culturally rich kingdom with eight of ...47 KB (6,833 words) - 16:19, 11 November 2022
- Yugoslavia describes three political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the twentieth century. ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War ( מלחמת יום הכיפורים ; (Romanization of Hebrew transliteration) Milkhemet Yom ...55 KB (8,557 words) - 16:54, 4 June 2023
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...44 KB (6,504 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American ...70 KB (9,939 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- Urdu ( ur|اردو , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to the Indo-European ...53 KB (7,869 words) - 13:44, 3 May 2023
- The term religion (from Latin: religio meaning "bind, connect") denotes a set of common beliefs and practices pertaining to the supernatural ...54 KB (7,792 words) - 03:38, 8 December 2022
- Category:Public Reagan, Ronald {{Infobox_President | name=Ronald Reagan | image name=Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981.jpg ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment of governance or authority through the creation of settlements by another ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
