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Arab News
November 25, 2017
This June 1, 1947, photo shows two British soldiers , right, and a Palestinian policeman, left, searches a man at an entrance of Jerusalem's B-Zone during the British mandate in Palestine. (AFP). Related Articles. Palestine hotel room count 'to double' Ãâ÷ Cambridge crackdown on Palestine event part ofÃâà...
Arab News
November 10, 2017
Political artist Banksy — whose artworks sell for millions of dollars — opened his “Walled Off” hotel in Bethlehem earlier this year. (Reuters). LONDON: Palestine's hotel room count is set to double by the end of the decade. Elias Al-Arjah, who is chairman of the Arab Hotel Association and the owner of TheÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 20, 2017
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - APRIL 13: An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard atop the Palestine Hotel overlooking Firdos Square where a statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled during the U.S. invasion on April 13, 2015 in Baghdad, Iraq. Baghdad has again come to life at night following the February lifting of theÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 10, 2017
Iraqi rapid response members move from house to house through a hole in a wall to avoid being hit by Islamic State snipers in western Mosul, Iraq March 9 ... an Iraqi security source Friday saying that members from the Interior Ministry's Rapid Response forces raised the Iraqi flag above the Palestine Hotel.
The New Arab
March 3, 2017
British street artist Banksy opened on Friday a hotel in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, as part of his latest artwork in the Palestinian territories. Tags: Banksy, touism, hotel, Palestine, Bethlehem, Walled Off Hotel. Secretive British street artist Banksy opened a hotel next to Israel's controversial separationÃâà...
BBC News
July 4, 2016
Almost 24 hours after the massacre of civilians in Baghdad by so-called Islamic State, young men were digging frantically through the basement of one of the shopping centres that was destroyed. They were looking for human remains. But all they found were some shoes and a pile of black ash. It was hot inÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 4, 2015
His father, a rich grain merchant and MP, became head of the Iraqi senate until King Abdullah of Iraq was assassinated. After the military seized power, Chalabi, his mother and other relatives retreated to a farmhouse near Baghdad. In 1958, he left Iraq to attend Seaford College, a boarding school inÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 4, 2015
His father, a rich grain merchant and MP, became head of the Iraqi senate until King Abdullah of Iraq was assassinated. After the military seized power, Chalabi, his mother and other relatives retreated to a farmhouse near Baghdad. In 1958, he left Iraq to attend Seaford College, a boarding school inÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
May 29, 2015
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) on Friday claimed responsibility for car bombings at two upscale Baghdad hotels that officials said killed at least nine ... The Ishtar is a popular site for wedding celebrations, and the area - which also includes a club and the Palestine Hotel - is crowded with people onÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 9, 2015
Ayoub and his cameraman Zuheir Iraqi were wounded when US missiles struck al-Jazeera's office in Baghdad, less than a mile from the Palestine hotel. Ayyoub died shortly after in hospital. Nearby, coalition artillery battered the Baghdad office of Abu Dhabi television, trapping more than 25 reporters whoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 8, 2013
... and attacked the media outlet multiple times during the 2003 Iraq invasion, including the killing of Ayoub, despite the fact that Al Jazeera supplied the Pentagon with their headquarter's coordinates in Baghdad in February 2003. On the same day Ayoub was killed a US tank shelled the Palestine Hotel,Ãâà...
NPR (blog)
December 3, 2011
December marks the beginning of the end of the U.S. war in Iraq. The withdrawal ... NPR correspondent Anne Garrels interviews an Iraqi soldier and interpreter during the battle of Fallujah in November 2004. Jay Kopelman ... Impacts of a U.S. tank shell are seen on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad in 2003.
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