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Amal Movement. The Amal Movement ( Arabic: حركة أمل, romanized : Ḥarakat ʿAmal, lit. 'Hope Movement') is a Lebanese political party and former militia affiliated with the Shia community of Lebanon. It was founded by Musa al-Sadr, Mostafa Chamran and Hussein el-Husseini in 1974 as the "Movement of the Deprived."
The Lebanese Resistance Regiments (Arabic: أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية, romanized: ʾAfwāj al-Muqāwama al-Lubnāniyya, or أَمَل AMAL), also designated Lebanese Resistance Battalions, Lebanese Resistance Detachments, Lebanese Resistance Legions and Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise (BRL), but simply known by its Arabic acronym أَمَل ʾAmal which means "Hope ...
Lebanon has hundreds of registered political parties. Since 2005, and after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, the political scene has become very polarised, with most major political parties and movements becoming part of one of two big rival alliances, the March 8 Alliance mainly led by Hezbollah, Free Patriotic Movement, Amal Movement, Tayyar Al Marada and the Tashnaq ...
A significant number of attacks on healthcare facilities occurred during the Israel-Hamas war. During the first week of the war, there were 94 attacks on health care facilities in Israel and Gaza, killing 29 health care workers and injuring 24. [1] The attacks on healthcare facilities contributed to a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza. [2]
Early life and career. Bahwan began as a small-scale trader in Sur, with one dhow, inherited from his father, doing business between Oman and India. [2] In 1965, he moved to the capital, Muscat and opened a shop in the Muttrah Souq with his brother Saud, named Suhail & Saud Bahwan, [3] initially they traded in construction equipment and fishing ...
Being the victim of an honor killing in Peoria, Arizona. Noor Faleh Almaleki [1] ( Arabic: نور فالح المالكي; c. 1989 – November 2, 2009) was an Iraqi American woman whose father killed her by striking her with a motor vehicle in an honor killing . Amnesty International USA stated that the murder was in headlines across the ...
From 21 November 1946 Al Amal became an Arabic daily newspaper, and Action was made a separate French-language weekly newspaper on 3 October 1948. [8] Its major function is to convey the party's views and ideas. [2] In the 1940s Al Amal frequently published anti-Israeli news and articles. [9] From 1945 it also frequently criticized the Lebanese ...
Hezbollah has a military branch known as the Jihad Council, one component of which is Al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya ("The Islamic Resistance"), and is the possible sponsor of a number of lesser-known militant groups, some of which may be little more than fronts for Hezbollah itself, including the Organization of the Oppressed, the Revolutionary ...