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- proper noun Alternative form of
Jerusalem . (the most commonly used name by Arabs)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shia communities throughout the region have proved fertile grounds for revolutionary messages and have formed deep and abiding partnerships with the al-Quds force.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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Hamburg security officials in August shuttered the Taiba mosque, known until two years ago as al-Quds, because of fears it was becoming a magnet for homegrown extremists who, unlike foreigners, could not be expelled from the country.
Europe Terror Alert Has Link To 9/11 Militant The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He rose steadily through the ranks of the Iranian military until 2002 when, months before the US invasion of Iraq, he was appointed to command the most elite unit of the Iranian military – the al-Quds force of the Revolutionary Guards Corp.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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It is clear that the al-Quds force is responsible, said the director general of the intelligence division in Iraq's interior ministry, Hussein Kamal.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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The al-Quds Force has been involved in suppressing the Syrian uprising, according to multiple sources inside and outside the country.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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The same year, US troops also captured two men in the Kurdish north who they believed were al-Quds leaders.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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In the meantime, the work of the al-Quds force continues in Iraq.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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Another Shia MP said he had personally asked Suleimani why his al-Quds force continued to smuggle weapons, many of which are fired into the Green Zone, where he and most of Maliki's inner circle live.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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Much of the US military's work with Iraq's Shia Muslims had been undermined by Suleimani and the client militias of the Iranian general's al-Quds force.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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The message came from the head of Iran's elite al-Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, and was conveyed by a senior Iraqi leader.
Qassem Suleimani: the Iranian general 'secretly running' Iraq 2011
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