Deriving from the Arabic wadi , for "valley," the "Guad" in Spanish geographical names denotes a river—Guadiana, Guadalupe, Guadalete, Guadalquivir (Wadi al-Kabir).
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More than 20 airstrikes were reported near Wadi Barada since Friday morning as militants repelled regime forces trying to advance on the suburb, activist Abu Mohammad al-Bardawi in Wadi Barada told CNN.
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For pictures of Wadi Hajar on Iraq's front line: reut.
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It's been involved in the assault on Wadi Barada outside Damascus.
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But what the mountain is really known for is the view from its rim: A canyon — sometimes called Wadi Nakhr gorge, other times Wadi Ghul or just plain Jebel Shams — that's been intricately carved over millions of years.
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They include Wadi, which last year raised $67 million, and Rocket Internet-backed Namshi.
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What really blew our minds was the discovery of the Wadi al-Jarf Papyri.
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Syria's state news agency, SANA, has not reported on military activity Saturday in Wadi Barada.
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Fighting in Wadi Barada has tarnished a shaky nationwide ceasefire that began on Dec 30.
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The army and allied fighters launched an offensive in late December to capture Wadi Barada.
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The other is at Wadi Hamam [in Israel], but that's very fragmentary and poorly preserved.
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One geologist, Ernie Berg, noticed that a wadi, or ancient riverbed, took a mysterious turn.
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"It will certainly boost Duterte's draconian rule in Mindanao," Mr. Wadi said of the ruling.
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French multinational Carrefour and its Middle Eastern retail partner Majid Al Futtaim have acquired Wadi.
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They happened to be in the desert area know as Wadi Rum, which is astoundingly beautiful.
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Other existing companies include Wadi, which last year raised $67 million, and Rocket Internet-backed Namshi.
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Later, two rebel officials said air raids around Wadi Barada had stopped just before 8 p.m.
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A walkway designed to resemble a dry "wadi" riverbed will be lined with restaurants and shops.
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She also said the U.S. was concerned about reports of a Syrian offensive in Wadi Barada.
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The parts that are finished include sections of its stone-paved "wadi" walkway and distinctive glass towers.
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Wadi Hajer is a warren of alleys and small houses well-suited to hit-and-run operations.
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Rebels in Wadi Barada had been allowing government engineers to maintain and operate the valley's pumping station.
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Airstrikes hit three villages Saturday in the Damascus suburb of Wadi Barada, an activist there told CNN.
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Water supplies coming from the rebel-held area of Wadi Barada have been cut since December 22.
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The mudslides in early September hit the Wadi Tuliba and Tagulei villages, in the East Jebel Marra area.
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The Syrian army and its allies are pushing to recapture Wadi Barada in spite of a nationwide ceasefire.
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The firm said in a statement it had bought a 33.3 percent stake in online shopping website Wadi.
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Today in the southern Philippines, Abu Sayyaf benefits from sympathetic locals who share their separatist sentiments, Wadi says.
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The SOHR said regime forces faced strong resistance from Islamic militants near the Damascus suburb of Wadi Barada.
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Wadi Barada, which lies northwest of Damascus, has become one of the fiercest battlefronts in Syria's civil war.
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The artificial waves rolling out in places like Surf Snowdonia or Wadi Adventure in Dubai don't do that.
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Betar Illit now hosts 60,000 Israeli settlers, in contrast to the modest population of 1,300 in Wadi Foquin.
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Nengah Wadi, 38, has been camping out with eight family members at the Pasar Seni camp in Manggis.
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He learned Arabic, and quickly forgot it, when the family lived in Cairo and Wadi Halfa, in Sudan.
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In Wadi Khaled, on the country's northern border near the Syrian city of Homs, it's hit 58 percent.
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But AQAP remains strong in the country's southeast, controlling several towns in the area known as Wadi Hadramawt.
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The majority of online transactions in the Middle East come from the Internet, though mobile is catching up. Wadi.
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Intense fighting raged for weeks in Wadi Barada, and knocked the water spring out of service in late December.
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Wadi el-Qamar — or Moon Valley — is a teeming residential quarter in western Alexandria, one of Egypt's largest cities.
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Today, the monuments are vulnerable to flash flooding in the Wadi Musa and continuing erosion from wind and rain.
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Such is the situation in Wadi Foquin, a small agricultural village in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territories.
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HB: Later on, you started working with images of abandoned Palestinian homes in the Arab Wadi Salib neighborhood in Haifa.
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When Wadi first met the women, they told him they were assaulted and abused by officers in Kawale police station.
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The Observatory, which is based in Britain, said government forces and the rebels had clashed on Saturday in Wadi Barada.
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Wadi Al Disah stretches for miles, ending at a historic village with yet more Nabatean ruins, aptly named Al Disah.
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Israel's "Silicon Wadi" — its vast network of high-tech companies along its coastal plain — has become a giant growth engine.
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There were two textile workers thrown off the top of a building under construction in the eastern neighborhood of Wadi Hajar.
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The premier's ratings have been dropping as the public tires of the bloody and seemingly intractable war on drugs, Wadi says.
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Jordan's Wadi Rum is a desert rock formation home to caverns, arches, and animals including falcons, Arabian oryx and Nubian ibex.
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WADI NATRUN, Egypt — Christian monks living in the solitude of Egypt's deserts have always faced the threat of attack from outside.
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The supermodel, 25, shared a photo of herself alongside boyfriend Joshua Kushner on Instagram Wednesday in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan.
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The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday that regime forces faced strong resistance from Islamist militants near Wadi Barada.
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State media and the Observatory said hundreds of people had left Wadi Barada in the past day for government-controlled areas nearby.
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"Kian was a turning point... this put the population into fear that their children could be killed," Wadi told CNN by phone.
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In a rural valley in southern Yemen lies Wadi Rafad, a collection of farms 20123 miles from the provincial capital of Ataq.
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In a rural valley in southern Yemen lies Wadi Rafad, a collection of farms 50 miles from the provincial capital of Ataq.
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Counter-terrorism forces also pushed on two fronts toward Wadi Hajr and Mamoun districts, said Lieutenant General Abdelwahab al-Saadi, a senior commander.
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In the early hours of Monday, residents heard gunfire for about an hour in the southern neighborhood of Wadi Hajer, near the airport.
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They were told that the issues in Wadi Foquin, and those in other villages, would hopefully be resolved by a forthcoming peace agreement.
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She has been spotted on vacation with both siblings, notably heading to the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan with Princess Beatrice in 2018.
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"One of the women was in tears, crying, when she explained to me that they had been taking pictures of them," Wadi explained.
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Authorities arrested the suspect, a Lebanese national, in the northern village of Wadi Khaled at the border with Syria, a security source said.
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Rebels claim the government destroyed the water pumping station in the Wadi Barada valley, one of the last remaining rebel-held pockets of Damascus.
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Jordan's ancient Wadi Rum, also known as the Valley of the Moon, contains breathtaking petroglyphs made by prehistoric civilizations that date back 19633,21963 years.
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Witnesses inside the city told CNN Monday that a gun battle had broken out overnight in Wadi Hajer neighborhood and had lasted an hour.
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Wadi Barada's recapture came weeks after rebel groups were driven from areas they held for years in east Aleppo, their last major urban stronghold.
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Rebels from Wadi Barada would be allowed to leave too, but could also opt to stay and serve with pro-government forces, it added.
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He was the only Christian among thousands of Muslims at Friday prayers in the Wadi el-Joz neighbourhood, outside the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Residents and tribal sources said a drone had fired a missile at a car traveling in Wadi Yashbum on Monday afternoon, destroying it completely.
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"Now that Marawi is winding up, you could say that the potential for terrorist attacks outside of Marawi is very much possible," Wadi says.
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Although social media helped document the mistreatment the women endured, their viral video of the crime also heavily influenced the public's view, Wadi says.
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The GNA said the ceasefire was violated just minutes after going into effect by militias in Salah al-Din and Wadi al-Rabi districts.
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The Operations Room and its allies, which include ultra-conservative Salafists and locals from Al-Wadi, had moved to push "militias" from Sabratha, he said.
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Launched in 2015, Wadi is part of the Middle East Internet Group (MEIG), a joint venture between Rocket Internet and South Africa telecom provider MTN.
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Now they are caught in no man's land in the middle of the fighting between the Peshmerga and ISIS, in an area called Wadi Alahmar.
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There was a "fierce attack and attempt by Assad and Shi'ite militias to raid Wadi Barada" from nearby hills, the rebel spokesman, Mohammed Rasheed, said.
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Rebels in Wadi Barada have allowed government engineers to maintain and operate the valley's pumping station since they took control of the area in 2012.
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It sits on the highest point in the green valley of Wadi Hadramaut, the longest fertile valley in the Arabian Peninsula, nestled between two mountains.
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Local news reports in Yemen said that a drone strike this month killed two militant suspects in the area of Wadi Abedah in central Yemen.
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Residents and rebel fighters in Wadi Barada say that some Nusra fighters are present, but they are a minority among other rebel groups and civilians.
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Residents in Wadi Barada say that some fighters from the former Nusra Front are present there, but that they are at most a tiny minority.
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The tour in Jordan was made even more epic because, after leaving Petra, I spent the night in Wadi Rum, a desert valley in Jordan.
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Abdul Amir Rasheed Yarallah, commander of Iraqi forces in Nineveh province, said counterterrorism forces continued to clear al-Mamoun and were storming the Wadi Hajjar neighborhood.
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While Iran sat at the table talking ceasefires, Mr Assad and its forces were making common cause fighting in the valleys of Wadi Barrada above Damascus.
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Rebel groups have cited the assault on Wadi Barada as proof that the government is not committed to a new ceasefire brokered by Turkey and Russia.
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Al Tayyar Travel tumbled 5.9 percent after saying it had acquired a 33.3 percent stake in Jumia Middle East Co, owner of online shopping website wadi.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported clashes in Wadi Barada on Monday and said government forces shelled several towns there.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah had made some gains against rebels in the Wadi Barada area.
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Previous land annexation in Wadi Foquin in the 22019s led to the construction of Betar Illit, one of the largest illegal settlements in the West Bank.
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American consular officials sat quietly in the largely deserted courtroom at Wadi Natroun prison, 60 miles from central Cairo, as Mr. Etiwy's sentence was read out.
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In late July, Israel took the first step by demolishing Palestinian homes in Areas A and B in the West Bank neighborhood of Wadi al-Hummus.
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Outside the camps, there are only three female teachers in all 93 schools of the Wadi Fira department, and boys outnumber girls, said state inspector Tom.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This summer I was traveling in Jordan's Wadi Rum desert, an otherworldly landscape of red sand and towering rock formations.
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The local media office for activists in rebel-held Wadi Barada, where the spring is located, denied any agreement had been reached between rebels and the government.
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The United Nations estimates 45,000 people live in the Wadi Barada area, and thinks at least 7,000 people have been displaced form the area in recent fighting.
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The Syrian army and allied fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah launched an offensive in late December to capture Wadi Barada, overlooked by pro-government military positions.
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A woman forced to leave Wadi Hajr district said the militants had climbed to her roof and knocked holes in the walls in order to move undetected.
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He also indicated a local deal could be reached soon in the Wadi Barada valley near Damascus, where government forces and their allies are currently battling rebels.
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For this particular study, an international group of researchers scoured the Wadi Faynan region in Southern Jordan, a place of early human habitation, for just such clues.
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Wearing shades of creams and ivories, models showed a total of 47 looks inspired by the deserts of Wadi Rum for the brand's Spring/Summer 2017 collection.
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The two main water sources for the capital - Wadi Barada and Ain-el-Fijah - are out of action because of "deliberate targeting", the U.N. said on Dec.
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And among those farther afield: Silicon Wadi in Israel, Silicon Mountain in Cameroon, Chilecon Valley in Santiago, the Silicon Roundabout in London and Silicon Sentier in Paris.
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Gonçalves' fall came 276 kilometers into the day's stage, which took competitors from Riyadh to Wadi Al Dawasir in Saudi Arabia's desert during the two-week race.
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Syrian state news agency SANA reported that what it called terrorists were behind the blast in the Wadi al-Dhahb district in the southeast of the city.
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The Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday the discovery in the Wadi Umm Tineidba, by an Egyptian- American mission from Yale University, includes at least three concentrations of rock art.
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The Syrian army and allied forces recaptured the Wadi Barada area near Damascus on Sunday, in another blow to rebels who have fought for years to unseat Assad.
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He said it was the army's job to recapture the Wadi Barada area, which he said had been occupied by a jihadist group not covered by the ceasefire.
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The battle for Marawi showed Islamic State-affiliated fighters that a small group of militants can hold their own against the Philippine Army for months, Professor Wadi said.
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The family had fled from Wadi Layya village in Al-Daher district on the border with Saudi Arabia into Haidan district in Saada governorate where the airstrike happened.
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Clashes and air strikes in Wadi Barada have threatened a shaky nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey nearly two weeks ago to pave the way for peace talks.
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TOUR IN JORDAN HAS A FILM FOCUS A new tour to Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan from the travel company Petra from Israel is inspired by the Oscars.
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The al-Fija spring which supplies Damascus with water is in the rebel-held Wadi Barada valley northwest of the capital in a mountainous area near the Lebanese border.
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The fighting in Wadi Barada has overshadowed a ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey to pave the way to peace talks they hope to convene in Kazakhstan this month.
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Adding insult to injury, Latino operative Wadi Gaitan, communications director of the Florida Republican Party, just resigned "because he cannot defend Trump's racism," as reported by The Huffington Post.
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The Syrian army and Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces have bombed and shelled rebel-held villages in the Wadi Barada valley, despite a nationwide ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey.
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Israel's Silicon Wadi (Arabic for "valley") began its journey to an international hub for startups with the acquisition of ICQ/Mirabilis, an instant messaging company, to AOL in 1996.
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Omran, who now plays with Fairouz and Ziad Rahbani, called Solhi al-Wadi, the late director of the Higher Institute of Music and a friend of Hafez al-Assad.
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Plants grow anomalously in what should be a dry wadi, animals come to drink, and mounds of baby wipes flushed down thousands of toilets sporadically coagulate along the banks.
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Water from the Wadi Barada and Ain al-Fija springs, which serve 70 percent of the population in and around Damascus, was cut after infrastructure was damaged in fierce clashes.
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Hisham al-Jaberi, a local military commander, said at least four other soldiers from the Hadrami Elite Forces were also wounded in the attack in an area called Wadi Hajar.
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Rebels in Wadi Barada have allowed government engineers to maintain and operate the valley's pumping station, the capital's main water source, since they took control of the area in 2012.
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The latest outbreak, at Wadi al-Dawasir in Riyadh province, began at the end of February, when a 32-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man showed symptoms.
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Wadi Barada lies on a road from Damascus to the Lebanese border that is a key supply line for Hezbollah, which is heavily involved in fighting alongside the Syrian army.
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"Da'ish is now calling 17th Tammouz 'wadi ath-thabat,'" the "valley of resolve", says Lieutenant Colonel Abu Fatima (not his real name -- he wasn't authorized to speak to the media).
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And this week, the chief spokesman for the Florida Republican Party, Wadi Gaitan — the son of Honduran immigrants — left his post to join Libre, citing Mr. Trump as his reason.
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At the same time, it has led a sprawling excavation of an area of Silwan called Wadi Hilweh, where archaeologists say they have unearthed the original boundaries of biblical Jerusalem.
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The rebels in Wadi Barada have allowed government water authority engineers to maintain and operate the pumping station and supply Damascus since they took control of the area in 2012.
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Now one of the main battles is over Wadi Barada, a besieged rebel-held area in the watershed that provides most of the drinking water for Damascus, the Syrian capital.
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But the GNA said in a statement that it had recorded gunfire in the Salaheddin and Wadi Rabea areas "minutes" after the ceasefire was meant to start at 0001 a.m.
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Despite the supposed cease-fire, new clashes were reported in Wadi Barada, a besieged rebel-held area and source for most of the drinking water for Damascus, the Syrian capital.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has launched the Wadi Al Disah Development project, which could help boost sustainable tourism-related job opportunities, Saudi Public Investment Fund said in a statement late Tuesday.
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In 2013, egyptologists Pierre Tallet and Sayed Mahfouz had found a total of 30 papyri inside caves in the ancient port of Wadi el-Jarf, located about 75 miles from Suez.
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The government and rebel groups in Wadi Barada, a mountainous valley about 20 km (10 miles) northwest of Damascus, agreed for technicians to enter the damaged spring facility, state television said.
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In Arsal, the refugees gathered in the town&aposs Wadi Hmeid area where a Lebanese security officer first checked their IDs against a list, before allowing them to cross into Syria.
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On Friday and Saturday, American-made, Iraqi-owned F-16 warplanes carried out attacks in Wadi Akab industrial areas of western Mosul that destroyed multiple targets, Iraqi Joint Operation Command said.
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Spotlight "Theeb," a Bedouin coming-of-age tale set in the craggy red deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan, is the first film from that country to be nominated for an Oscar.
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Rebels had controlled the springs of the Wadi Barada valley, northwest of Damascus since 2012 and faced a major offensive by Syrian government forces and their allies, despite a ceasefire deal.
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One woman in the southern Wadi Hajer neighborhood said ISIS fighters forced her and her family from their home and took them to another house to be used as human shields.
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The Observatory and a military news outlet run by Lebanese Hezbollah, a Damascus ally, said hundreds of civilians had left Wadi Barada in the last day for government-controlled areas nearby.
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Just as the Hi-SEAS developers chose a Hawaiian volcano for its mission, Mr. Scott shot much of the film in Wadi Rum in Jordan to mimic the Mars-like conditions.
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The statement said government forces and their allies including Lebanese Hezbollah had been trying to press advances, particularly in an area northwest of Damascus in the rebel-held Wadi Barada valley.
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MORE: Water is the latest battleground in Syria In Wadi Barada, for example, it alleges that the former al Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, is present (although local groups deny this).
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Reports of executions According to a witness, ISIS on Saturday executed about 75 Iraqi police or security officers detained after gun battles earlier this week in Mosul's southern neighborhood of Wadi Hajar.
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The 29-year-old appeared happy in a group photo with a large group of friends in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan on Tuesday including supermodel Karlie Kloss and Ellie Goulding.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan forces said in a statement on Friday that they had taken control of the areas of Qasr ben Ghashir, Wadi al-Rabie and Suq al-Khamis near Tripoli.
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The village council of Wadi Foquin began construction on a soccer field in the summer of 2628 to accompany a newly built park providing recreational space for their children, youth, and families.
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The soccer field is to serve not only Wadi Foquin, but also children and youth from surrounding Palestinian villages—and even possibly Israeli children in a future extending equal rights to Palestinians.
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In her Wadi Salib series, the painter presents a unique use of cement: she glues photographs of abandoned Palestinian homes onto canvas, draws on them, and guts parts with a Stanley knife.
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One of them, the Wadi el Kuf Bridge in eastern Libya, built from 1965 to 1972, was closed for a time last year, after inspection revealed structural issues, according to local reports.
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Many members of the public attended their hearing after seeing the video on social media, jeering and shouting abuse at the women in the court, even trying to attack them, said Wadi.
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He said raising concerns about government attacks on Wadi Barada was tantamount to defending the Nusra Front, the former name of the Levant Conquest Front, which is excluded from the cease-fire.
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From the Silicon Hills in Austin, Texas to Silicon Alley in NYC, the Silicon Docks in Ireland's capital city to Silicon "Wadi" in Israel, potential new global tech hubs are popping up everywhere.
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Residents said at least nine members of the same family, including at least five children, were killed in one air strike which hit their home in Wadi Khair in southern Yemen's Shabwa province.
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Turkey's foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has warned that continued assaults on the rebel-held Wadi Barada area by government forces and Iranian militias threaten the peace talks planned in Kazakhstan later this month.
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The government and allied fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah launched an attack two weeks ago to take back Wadi Barada where a spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital.
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The Wadi Barada valley is a rebel-held pocket of territory northwest of Damascus that the Syrian army and its allies have been trying to recapture in an offensive that started last week.
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Another of Bogaczewicz's photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
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The river, I gathered, was an ephemeral one (sometimes called a wash, a wadi or, my particular favorite, an arroyo); it flows with water only occasionally, then briefly, during rainstorms and after snowmelt.
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Image: Emmanuelle HonoreThe Wadi Sura cave in the Libyan Desert features a number of stencil paintings dating back to between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago, including over a dozen tiny human-like hand prints.
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The Syrian army and its allies launched an offensive last month to drive insurgents from the Wadi Barada valley, which they have controlled since 2012, and to recapture a major spring and pumping station.
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Hamza Ahmed Abusnaina, a senior Misuratan commander, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that the attackers had captured both the Surt power plant and an area south of the city called Wadi Jaref.
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Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that Arabs in Wadi Ara, located in northern Israel, "do not belong to the state of Israel" after hundreds rioted and protested after Trump's announcement, The Associated Press reported.
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This week the Israeli military announced that one of those arrested, Muhammad Wadi, was being charged with attempted murder after he hurled rocks at the head of one of the adults inside the cave.
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Found at two sites a few years ago — at a wadi at Shuwaymis and at the desert oasis of Jubbah — the stylized canines predate previous evidence for dogs in the region by over 2,000 years.
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