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A crawler crane collapsed over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, around 5:10 p.m. on 11 September 2015, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others. [3][4][5] The city was preparing for the Hajj pilgrimage. [6][7] The collapse has been cited as the deadliest crane collapse in history, with the previous most deadly incident being the ...
The conquest of Mecca (Arabic: فَتْحُ مَكَّةَFatḥu Makkah, alternatively, "liberation of Mecca") was a military campaign undertaken by Muhammad and his companions during the Muslim–Quraysh War. They led the early Muslims in an advance on the Quraysh -controlled city of Mecca in December 629 or January 630 [ 3 ][ 4 ] (10–20 ...
Jannatul Baqi graveyard in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The destruction of heritage sites associated with early Islam is an ongoing phenomenon that has occurred mainly in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, particularly around the two holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina. [1] The demolition has focused on mosques, burial sites, homes and ...
Iran launched at least 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday, the latest in a series of rapidly escalating attacks between Israel and Iran and its Arab allies that threatens to push the Middle East ...
Masjid al-Haram (Arabic: ٱَلْمَسْجِدُ ٱلْحَرَام, romanized: al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, lit. 'The Sacred Mosque'), [4] also known as the Sacred Mosque or the Great Mosque of Mecca, [5] is considered to be the most significant mosque in Islam. [6][7] It encloses the vicinity of the Kaaba in Mecca, in the Mecca Province of ...
The Associated Press. September 3, 2024 at 8:29 AM. The Israeli military says it has killed a Hamas militant who appeared in a widely viewed video from Oct. 7, where he was seen drinking from a ...
The Israel Defense Forces identified the six, all of whom were taken hostage in the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks, as Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Alexander ...
Conscription. Since 1914, Greece (or the Hellenic Republic) has had mandatory military service (conscription) of 12 months in the Army, Navy and the Air Force for men between the age of 19 to 45. Citizens discharged from active service are normally placed in the Reserve and are subject to periodic recall of 1–10 days at irregular intervals.