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Team, Place & City Details

Al-Sailiya SC

Al-Sailiya Sports Club is a Qatari professional football club currently competing in the Qatar Stars League. They are based in Doha and play their home games at Ahmed bin Ali Stadium.

Taliya SC

Taliya Sports Club is a Syrian football club based in Hama, Syria.

Al-Taliya Club

Al-Taliya Club is an Omani sports club based in Sur, Oman. The club is mainly known for its football team, which is currently playing in the Oman First Division League of Oman Football Association, and is also operating teams in other sports, such as hockey, volleyball, handball, basketball, badminton and squash.

Al-Karamah SC

Al-Karamah Sports Club is a Syrian football club based in the city of Homs. Founded in 1928, it is considered to be one of Asia's oldest sporting clubs.

Taqiya

In Islam, Taqiya or Taqiyya is a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution.A related term is Kitmān (lit. "action of covering, dissimulation"), which has a more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission.This practice is emphasized in Shia Islam whereby adherents are permitted to conceal their religion when under threat of persecution or compulsion.

Sargon II
Sargon II

Sargon II was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the downfall of his predecessor Shalmaneser V in 722 BC to his death in battle in 705 BC. Though Sargon claimed to be the son of the previous king Tiglath-Pileser III (r. 745–727 BC), this is uncertain and he probably gained the throne through usurping it from Shalmaneser V. Sargon is recognized as one of the most important Neo-Assyrian kings due to his role in founding the Sargonid dynasty, which would rule the Neo-Assyrian Empire until its fall less than a century after Sargon's death.

Al Taliaferro

Charles Alfred Taliaferro , known simply as Al Taliaferro, was an American Disney comics artist who produced Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. Taliaferro is best known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip.

Al-Aliyat
Al-Aliyat

Al-'Aliyat is a village in the Homs Governorate in central Syria, located southeast of Homs on the western fringes of the Syrian Desert. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-'Aliyat had a population of 532 in 2004.

Antaliya, Amreli

Antaliya is a village in Amreli district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Al Aaliya Island
Al Aaliya Island

Al Aaliya Island is an island located off the coast of the municipality of Al Daayen in Qatar, north of The Pearl.It is a small, low-lying island, of a brown colour, with a little peak at its east end, lying 3½ miles north of Al Safliya Island; it is visible 6 or 7 miles. Between these two islands is the artificial island of The Pearl, which was built in the late 2000s.

Al-Tali'aa Taizz

Al-Tali'aa Taizz Sport Club , is a Yemeni football club based in Taiz, Yemen, that plays in Yemeni League.

Antaliya

Antaliya is a village in Amreli district in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Battle of Karameh
Battle of Karameh

The Battle of Karameh was a 15-hour military engagement between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and combined forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) in the Jordanian town of Karameh on 21 March 1968, during the War of Attrition. It was planned by Israel as one of two concurrent raids on PLO camps, one in Karameh and one in the distant village of Safi—codenamed Operation Inferno (Hebrew: מבצע תופת‎) and Operation Asuta (מבצע אסותא), respectively—but the former turned into a full-scale battle.After Jordan lost control of the West Bank to Israel in 1967, Palestinian fighters known as fedayeen moved their bases to Jordan and stepped up their attacks on Israel and Israeli-occupied territories, taking the border town of Karameh as their headquarters.