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In 2007, the association was expelled by the Sunni Endowment, a quasi-governmental agency responsible for Sunni mosques in Iraq, which took control of Umm al-Qura. [3] On 28 August 2011, the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber during Friday prayers, killing at least 28 people and injuring 30 more. An Iraqi member of parliament, Khalid al ...
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) released footage it claimed showed a vehicle loaded with explosives under a mosque in Lebanon. In a post on X, the IDF said it found a "weapons cache inside of a ...
On 28 August 2011, an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq was launched at the Umm al-Qura Mosque in western Baghdad.A suicide bomber wearing a fake cast on his arm walked into the building and blew himself up inside the main hall, killing 32 people including parliamentarian Khalid al-Fahdawi. [1]
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Umm al-Qura or Um al-Qura (Arabic for "Mother of All Settlements") may refer to: the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia; Umm al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad, Iraq; Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; the Umm al-Qura calendar, an Islamic calendar based on astronomical calculations; Um Al-Qura, a Saudi newspaper
The leader of Lebanon’s Shiite militant group Hezbollah said Saturday that if governments of Muslim-majority nations do not act against countries that allow the desecration of the Quran, Muslims ...