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Morocco says 52 arrested planning to set up Daesh branch

Edit Arabnews 28 Jul 2016
Attached Files. . ID. . 1469652286620300100. Publication Date. . Thursday, July 28, 2016. RABAT, Morocco ... “The arrested individuals planned to set up a vilayet (province) in Morocco affiliated to Daesh,” it said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State ... Main category. . Middle-East. ....

Anti-Western Cleric Picked to Head Iran’s Council of Experts

Edit Voa News 24 May 2016
A powerful anti-Western cleric was chosen Tuesday as the head of Iran’s recently elected Assembly of Experts ... His election could represent a setback for the hoped-for integration of Iran into the world community ... Bani Sadr argues that a majority of Iranian religious leaders in the holy city of Qom oppose the current political model, where an omnipotent “Vilayet al Faqih” —  or enlightened ruler — presides over the country....

Modest man, majestic music

Edit The Hindu 14 Apr 2016
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan was born on 14th April 1922 and would have been 94 this year. It is difficult to try to assess the impact of his music on the world today, as he touched so many people in so many countries in such different ways ... His contemporaries of equal stature like Ustad Vilayet Khan, and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, have verbalised their feelings of the highest respect for his music, and for him personally ... Keywords....

Chronicles of the conquered

Edit Dawn 27 Mar 2016
Divided into non-fiction (mostly travelogues) and fictional literary representations, the book begins with a discussion of Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin’s 1780 account Shigarf Nama-i Vilayat, translated to The Wonders of Vilayet ... An illustrative example is Faizee’s discussion of the clothing an Indian Muslim woman must wear while in “vilayet.” ......

The Battle for Mosul and the Future of Islamic State

Edit Huffington Post 27 Mar 2016
Islamic State Militants in Anbar Province. On March 24, the Baghdad government announced that it was commencing military operations to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State ... The latter includes the archeological site containing the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra ... It was a separate province (vilayet) under the Ottomans from the two provinces (Baghdad Vilayet and Basra Vilayet) that made up the historic region of Mesopotamia ... ....

Fire guts illegal gas cylinder godown, 2 escape unhurt

Edit Deccan Herald 19 Mar 2016
Two workers had a narrow escape after more than 20 gas cylinders exploded at an unauthorised godown at Vivekanandanagar in Kathriguppe, Banashankari III Stage, early on Saturday morning. The incident occurred at around 5.40 am at the illegally operated gas agency at KEB Layout near Vilayet Circle in Vivekanandanagar ... Two workers, who were filling gas inside the unit, sensed the danger and rushed outside to safety ... ....

Winston Churchill: Britain’s Greatest Briton Left a Legacy of Global Conflict and Crimes Against Humanity

Edit CounterPunch 25 Jan 2016
Sunday marked the anniversary of the death of one of the most lionized leaders in the Western world. Sir Winston Churchill ... The story that British schoolbooks tell children about Churchill is of a British Bulldog, with unprecedented moral bravery and patriotism ... E ... In Iraq, Churchill bundled together the three Ottoman vilayets of Basra that was predominantly Shiite, Baghdad that was Sunni, and Mosul that was mainly Kurd ... Historian, Mr ... ....

Middle East Poker (The Institute of World Politics)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Jan 2016
(Source. The Institute of World Politics). By keeping its distance from the escalating efforts to rid the region of Islamic State, Israel has strengthened its hand ... It is nothing like chess, which has set rules and is governed strictly by rational calculation ... Islamic state (IS) is exporting terrorism through its various branches ('vilayets') in France, the US, Libya, Yemen and sub-Saharan Africa, far from its bases in Syria and Iraq....

Analysis: The fate of Mosul in Turkey's hands?

Edit Al Jazeera 15 Dec 2015
The incursion embittered relations between Ankara and Baghdad and increased tensions among Iraq's embattled communities ... The volunteers are training to take back the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group ... With Mosul being the last Ottoman vilayet (administrative division) to fall in World War I, the city given to Iraq under the Sykes-Picot agreement has a particular claim on the hearts and minds of many Turks....

Erdogan Moves To Annexes Mosul

Edit Information Clearing House 06 Dec 2015
By Moon Of Alabama. December 06, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Moon Of Alabama" - - The wannabe Sultan Erdogan did not get his will in Syria where he had planned to capture and annex Aleppo. The Russians prevented that ... Former Ottoman Mosul Vilayet eventually became Nineveh Province of Iraq, but Mosul remained the provincial capital ... The small camps in the northern Kurdish area have been there since the 1990s....

What a downed Russian plane may portend (The Institute of World Politics)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Nov 2015
(Source. The Institute of World Politics) ... Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility and there is no reason not to believe it ... Its militants in the Sinai, now in alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, have declared the 'Sinai vilayet [province] of the Caliphate' and have begun to consolidate the heretofore heterogeneous and scattered jihadist groups in the peninsula ... This piece originally appeared in Globes. distributed by ... (noodl....

A Tribal Solution to the Islamic State

Edit Huffington Post 30 Oct 2015
~ T. E ... During Ottoman times, such patronage originated from the capitals of the various vilayets, or provinces, in which the tribes resided, either Syria (Damascus), Zor (Deir Ez-Zor, in modern-day Syria), or Baghdad ... However, as in Ottoman times, political lines on a map meant little to tribal federations whose territory often overlapped with two or more Ottoman vilayets, and today include both Syria and Iraq ... ....

The democratic republic of The People's Teahouse

Edit Al Jazeera 24 Oct 2015
SULAIMANIA -- Walk too quickly and you might just miss it. Wedged between a shoe shop and a men's clothing stall, there is a narrow, rundown doorway ... But you would be mistaken ... Chaikhana Shaab, or the People's Teahouse, has had a front row seat to it all ... Also read ... The Treaty of Sevres, signed in 1920 by the Allied powers and the Ottoman government, had promised to give the oil-rich Mosul Vilayet to the Kurds ... But he may well have done ... ....
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