NOUN
- a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
How To Use Arabian Peninsula In A Sentence
- In a statement this week, Somalia's al-Shabaab released these pictures of what it described as a graduation ceremony of its fresh recruits trained and ready to head to Yemen to "assist in jihad, the brethren of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2010
- Wadi Turabah in Saudi Arabia is the last place in the Arabian Peninsula where the hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) can be found nesting, and the isolated and distinctive endemic race Pica pica ssp. asirensis is pressent on Shalla ad-Dhana. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
- After centuries of isolation, the Arabian peninsula was suddenly connected to the outside world. Times, Sunday Times
- It is said that the first mobile phone network in the Arabian peninsula was for the exclusive use of the Saudi royal family. Times, Sunday Times
- We also know that he was in contact with this cleric, Al - Awlaki, in Yemen, who has been associated with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, who's actually an American-born cleric who used to work in Falls Church, Virginia. CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010
- The Capital, known historically as Rabbath Ammon, is one of the world's oldest inhabited cities, and was an important crossroads connecting the Arabian Peninsula in the south to Damascus in the north, and the "Syrian desert" in the east to Palestine and the Mediterranean in the west. TravelDailyNews.com
- Ring Number Three: The [EU] European Union, Germany, [NATO] the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and all European interests, in the [21st] Century, which means the rapid withdrawal of all offensive military European Forces from the Islamic Crescent/Arabian Peninsula/Hindu Cush, with out being dragged into yet another quagmire. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
- ADEN: Yemeni forces dispersed on Sunday a rally of 200 people in Aden protesting the suspension of a newspaper which the government accuses of seeking to divide the Arabian Peninsula country, witnesses said. The Daily Star > Editorial
- Dr. CHRISTOPHER BOUCEK (Association, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): Ibrahim is believed by the Saudi authorities to be hiding out in Yemen with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and is thought to be a bomb-maker, as well as having experience with poisons and toxins and rockets and missiles. Yemen Plot Puts Spotlight On Saudi Bomb-Maker
- He described how current offshoots like al-Awlaki's al-Qaedaof the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen are cooperating with militants in Somalia, describing what he called an "invisible bridge" between the two. Special ops chief warns of al-Qaeda 2.0