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The Houthis - officially known as "Supporters of God" or "Ansar Allah" in Arabic - are a group of Shia Islamists based in western Yemen. Image:Members of Houthi military forces in September 2022. Pic: Houthi Military Media Formed in the 1990s, the group began as a movement to...
The Holocaust was ended by the Allied forces' armies that marched through Germany in 1945, defeating the Nazi regime and freeing prisoners from labor... Learn more about this topic: The Holocaust | Overview, Causes & Timeline from Chapter 7/ Lesson 4 ...
Right now Alison has a lot of questions that need answering, as do I, and once I have taken the time to grieve this loss I will begin looking for those answers. Several emails are going to be written, as I assure her that she isn’t alone in this daunting battle against the governme...
Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, 28, and Rajwa Alseif, 29, are to be married on Thursday at a palace wedding in Jordan, a Western-allied monarchy that has been a bastion of stability for decades as Middle East turmoil has lapped at its borders. The families have not ...
Asked why Eisenhower, who was in command of two million Allied forces in Operation Overlord, chose to speak with paratroopers, Ginther said, "Because they're the key to the whole operation." The Germans had flooded the areas behind the beaches, and the paratroopers were to jump in ahead ...
Then, in 1945 (the day of Japan’s surrender to the Allied Forces), Nannie’s drunkard husband Frank went on a particularly bad bender. He came home drunk and reportedly raped Nannie. The next day, Nannie discovered his corn whiskey jar buried in the yard. So, she topped it off with ...
The United States is scrambling to quell attacks by a range of armed groups that are allied to Iran and to each other. They are: — Hamas in Gaza; — powerful Hezbollah, the dominant force in Lebanon; — smaller militias in Iraq and Syria; — Houthis in the poor Arabian penin...
The attack was orchestrated by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who operated from inside of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Less than a month after the attack, US and allied forces invaded Afghanistan, aiming to stop the Taliban from providing a safe-haven to al Qaeda – and to stop a...
Syrian government troops have long controlled a large part of the country, thanks to allied forces dispatched by Russia and Iran. Assad’s forces control most of the major population centers, including the capi