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The Battle of Raban, 958: The Byzantine Empire Breaks the Hamdanids
In 944, Sayf al-Dawla established himself as the head of the independent Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo. Sayf’s rule over his ...
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The battles of Tanga and Rufiji Delta: How Tanganyika outsmarted empires in World War I
Dar es Salaam. Six key World War 1 battles were fought on African soil, according to the History Channel; two of those were fought in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) between British and German ...
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a Calming Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dies at 85
From 2003 to 2009, he brought a quiet style of leadership to his Southeast Asian nation after the strongman rule of Mahathir ...
Former Malaysian leader Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who extended political freedoms, dies at 85
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, a moderate who extended the country’s political freedoms but was ...