... previously had been under the sovereignty of Ras al Khaymah and Sharjah, both member states of the United Arab Emirates. The Iraqi Baath also was involved in a confrontation with the conservative shaykhdoms of the Gulf over Iraq's support for the... Area Handbook for the People's Republic of China - Page 338by Donald P. Whitaker, Rinn-Sup Shinn (Foreign affairs analyst), In-sŏp Sin, American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Area Studies - 1972 - 729 pagesFull view - About this book
| Barry M. Rubin, Kemal Kirişci - 2001 - 284 pages
...PKK. Damascus also hosts the headquarters of several leftist Palestinian opposition groups, such as the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and gives some support to Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. All of these groups are engaged in... | |
| Rosemary Radford Ruether, Herman J. Ruether - 328 pages
...elections finally took place in January 1996. Hamas and splinter PLO parties, such as the DFLP and PFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine), all of whom rejected the Oslo process, boycotted the election. Despite this nonparticipation... | |
| Anca Carrington - 2003 - 218 pages
...of the Gulf over Iraq's support for the leftist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf. The major contention between Iraq and the conservative Gulf states, however, concerned the Kuwaiti islands... | |
| David Dean Commins - 2004 - 380 pages
...efforts. These factions included the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. While they do not carry much weight in the West Bank and Gaza, they have... | |
| United States - 2005 - 1186 pages
...and does not allow terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hizballah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command to maintain facilities in territory under Syrian control; (2) the Government... | |
| Daniel Byman - 2005 - 432 pages
...Harakat-ul-Mujahedin, Hizballah, Jaysh-e-Muhammed, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command still enjoy significant support. For a comprehensive review of the groups... | |
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