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  • Citing a Taliban spokesman, Sky News claimed the killing of the three soldiers was part of a new offensive called al-Fatah, or victory.

    Hunt continues for rogue Afghan soldier who killed British troops 2010

  • And already in 1960 he appears in Beirut, Lebanon, looking for a place to establish the headquarters of then an unknown organization called al-Fatah, which even today is the main body of the PLO.

    Inside the PLO 1990

  • Nammari denied any links to al-Fatah or to the murder of the Druze guard, and he claimed that he had been singled out because his mother was Jewish.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The militants called their coming offensive "al-Fatah" ( 'to conquer' in Arabic) and warned there would be "ambushes, detonations of explosive devices, assassinations of government officials, suicide bombings and detainment of foreign invaders."

    Taliban Warn of Major Offensive in Afghanistan 2010

  • The number of these incidents escalated in March 1967, with Israeli ground troops and aircraft attacking Syrian positions and also targeting Palestinians from the recently created guerrilla force al-Fatah.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • Radical groups like the Arab Nationalist Movement, al-Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attracted adherents and attention in the press.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • The Palestinian drama with its divisions and fratricidal wars between Abu Mazen's al-Fatah which controls the West Bank and Hamas are all very well known.

    Amir Madani: Perspectives of Peace in the Middle East 2010

  • The number of these incidents escalated in March 1967, with Israeli ground troops and aircraft attacking Syrian positions and also targeting Palestinians from the recently created guerrilla force al-Fatah.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

  • For years Israel has favored the formation of confessional forces in order to weaken and wipe out Arafat's al-Fatah and the PLO (according to: Robert Dreyfuss 'The Devil's Game).

    Amir Madani: Perspectives of Peace in the Middle East 2010

  • In early March 1968, Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian engineer named Kamal Nammari and accused him of being the Jerusalem commander of al-Fatah, the nascent Palestinian guerrilla organization.

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

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