Besieging holy sites: past lessons
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The standoff at one of Islam's holiest shrines parallels one at the Church of the Nativity in 2002.
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For many among the small and ancient community of Christians in the West Bank, a new security plan offers more safety than they have experienced in years.
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JERUSALEM, September 2.âThe Israeli occupation forces destroyed a mosque and two housing blocks today, leaving hundreds of Palestinian homeless and wounding various others, during an intense Nazi-style operation in Khan Yunes, in the south of the Gaza
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âPakistan is inherently unstable. Dealing with them is like playing with matches in a forest.â - Larry Pressler. That statement from Larry Pressler, made during his recent visit to India, coincided with
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With a new book the controversial author takes on the sacred ground of the terror attacks and their aftermath
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TZOVA, Israel  - A British archeologist has dug up  evidence linking John the Baptist to a cave used for bathing  rituals in hills near Jerusalem in what he said could be one of  the biggest recent finds for Christian history.
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A team of experts from UNESCO toured on Wednesday an Israeli archaeological excavation that Muslims fear could damage Islam's holiest site in Jerusalem.
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Najaf and Karbala 2004, Srebrenica 1995: two bloody conflicts, miles apart, both the result of events more than 80 years ago. Few places demonstrate as vividly as the former Yugoslavia and Iraq that todayâs
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Fortunately, it ended as such. The major massacre did not occur, but small ones did. The shrines and the holy places were not destroyed, although some walls were hit.
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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The Middle East is in flames. Over the past week, war erupted among the Palestinians and their government collapsed. A Shiite shrine in Iraq was bombed -- again -- as the new U.S. military strategy showed no sign of diminishing violence. Lebanon battled a new al-Qaeda faction in the north as a...
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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TETOUAN, Morocco -- In the Arab world, this North African city is about as far as you can get from Iraq. But for many young men, the call to join what they view as a holy war resonates loudly across the 3,000-mile divide.
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Modern technology has changed the way Muslims experience the hajj pilgrimage, a rite required of able-bodied faithful who can afford it at least once in a lifetime. It has also perhaps changed the way they experience being Muslims, as Islamic militants have popularly seized on the Internet as a tool for publicizing their extremist, often violent, version of the religion.
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A name in a clay tablet appears to buttress the historical accuracy of the Biblical text
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 10 -- From the roof of his home just inside the Old City walls, Palestinian landlord Nasser Karain has a view of the valleys and plateaus where scriptures say Solomon built the first Temple, Jesus was betrayed and Muhammad rose to heaven.
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Shiite Muslims are leading an 'axis of resistance' that unnerves Sunnis and challenges the US and Israel. Part 1 of two