Most of the conflicts in the Middle East take place in Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Yemen, but the strings are mostly pulled by ...

Jerusalem does not belong to Turkey. Aspirations to re-create a neo-Ottoman colonial empire are nothing more than a dystopian ...

The legendary Hejaz Railway was the ambitious dream of Sultan Abdulhamid II of the Ottoman Empire, who, in 1900, envisioned a train line connecting Istanbul to Mecca. Named after the Hejaz region ...

Queen Aliya bint Ali of Hejaz (1911 – 21 December 1950), was an Arabian princess and a queen consort of Iraq. She was the spouse and first cousin of King Ghazi of Iraq and the queen mother of King ...

The Ottoman Empire decriminalized same-sex sexual ... a Fairmont Hotel in the background, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is a holy city in Islam and the site of the annual Hajj ...

At launch, the Apple Maps web beta included basic functionality like searching for points of interest, seeing ratings, browsing area Guides, and getting directions. With Look Around, the web ...

While these powers promised the Arabs, led by the Ottoman Governor of Mecca Sharif Husain ... laid the foundation for the later division of the Middle East. Dr Khan used a map to explain which ...

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Google Maps has a lot of data on roads across the globe, and that data comes from a variety of sources. In an effort to improve data in certain areas, Google Maps is now using footage from dash ...

After capturing Damascus in December 2024, they aim to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, and the Kaaba in Mecca. They urge patience from Gaza's people ...