A quarter of a century ago, Ibn Saud’s warriors thundered westward out of the central Arabian desert, sacked the town of Taif and marauded through the Hejaz. Relentlessly, Ibn Saud’s men drove ...

This is a list of royal families on the Arabian Peninsula in the 20th century.Bahrain : House of Khalifa. Hejaz (1916–1925): Hashemites. Idrisid Emirate of Asir (1908–1934): Idrisid dynasty. Jabal ...

The Hashemites were led by the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi, who agreed to lead Arab tribes loyal to him in a revolt against the Ottomans. In exchange, the British promised that the ...

Golani, has just taken Damascus. The officials of the Assad regime, and the administrative authorities are apparently in ...

If this were to happen, King Abdullah would likely respond by trying to burnish his Islamic credentials, especially the Hashemites' hereditary claim to the Prophet Mohammed. Ultimately ...

The Hashemites, Jordan’s royal family, have been custodians of these sites since 1924, a position which was reaffirmed in the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace agreement and in the 2013 agreement between the ...

Among the most powerful of these groups were the Hashemites, or Banu Hashim, a clan within the larger Quraish tribe that is descended directly from Prophet Muhammad. They came to control much of the ...

Key events illustrating this alliance include the British backing of the Saudi-Wahhabi forces against the Ottoman-backed Hashemites during the Arab Revolt (1916-1918) and Britain's diplomatic ...