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der of things. Syria took pride in its place in Islam. Damascus was the seat of the first Arab kingdom, the first stop the desert warriors from the Hejaz made when they came out of the Arabian Peninsula. In the telling, the Prophet Muhammad favored this realm. He had seen Damascus from the hills abov
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Saudi Arabia. The kingdom itself is not very old. It was created in 1932 through the unification of two smaller kingdoms on the Arabian peninsula, Hejaz and Nejd. It was a poor, isolated part of the world that had liberated itself from Ottoman rule during the First World War, and came then under the

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Mediterranean
LocationSea in southern Europe

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024

George W. Bush
PersonPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009

Prince Charles
PersonKing of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms since 2022 (born 1948)

Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia

Norway
LocationCountry in Northern Europe

Tehran
LocationCapital city of Iran

Vladimir Putin
Person2nd and 4th President of Russia (2000-2008, 2012-present), 7th and 11th Prime Minister of Russia (1999-2000, 2008-2012), Director of the Federal Security Service (1998-1999) and Deputy Mayor of Saint Petersburg (1994-1996)

Benjamin Netanyahu
PersonPrime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)

Condoleezza Rice
PersonAmerican diplomat and political scientist (born 1954)

Cairo
LocationCapital city of Egypt

Bahrain
LocationCountry in the Persian Gulf

Saudi Arabia
LocationCountry in West Asia
Kremlin
OrganizationFortified complex in Moscow, Russia

Eurasia
LocationContinental landmass comprising Europe and Asia

East Asia
LocationEastern region of Asia

Terje Rod-Larsen
PersonNorwegian diplomat

Levant
LocationGeographic and cultural region consisting of the eastern Mediterranean between Anatolia and the Sinai Peninsula

U.S. Navy
OrganizationU.S. Navy