Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.

The Bab el Qattara box — some from the coast and southwest of the Ruweisat Ridge — had been dug but had not been wired or mined, while at the Naq Abu Dweis box ( on the edge of the Qattara Depression ), from the coast, very little work had been done.

The major choke points include Bab el Mandeb, Strait of Hormuz, the Lombok Strait, the Strait of Malacca and the Palk Strait.

The departure of mankind from Africa to colonise the rest of the world involved them crossing the Straits of Bab el Mandab in the southern Red Sea and moving along the green coastlines around Arabia and thence to the rest of Eurasia.

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strategic location on Horn of Africa along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal

Wracked with indecision, Barré moved his troops into the hills and formed a defensive line from Teboursouk through Medjez el Bab and ordered that anyone trying to pass through the line would be shot.

over Medjerda River near Medjez el Bab in Tunisia on the night of 26 November 1942.

In 964, in his Book of Fixed Stars, he called it al-Bakr (" the Sheep ") " of the southern Arabs "; he noted that the Cloud is not visible from northern Arabia and Baghdad, but can be seen at the strait of Bab el Mandeb ( 12 ° 15 ' N ), which is the southernmost point of Arabia.

The battalion headed for the British lines, but lost 266 men under constant German attack by the time they reached safety at Medjez el Bab.

After returning to Cairo, they headed to Port Said, Djibouti, and Aden, reaching Bab el Mandeb.

The ' Bou ' was a ridge dominating the Medjez el Bab to Tunis road.

It was one of the units in support of the Dukes 1st Battalion and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment at the Battle of Banana Ridge, over looking the Medjez el Bab plain, as the front part of a five mile wide divisional offensive to advance on Tunis.

* Bab el shams by Yousry Nasrallah

* Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Caen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44, Medjez el Bab, Oued Zarga, North Africa 1942-43, Adrano, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Trigno, Sangro, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Monte Ceco, Monte Spaduro, Senio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1941-42, Rathedaung, Htizwe, Kohima, Naga Village, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943-45

* The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Calais 1940, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Villers Bocage, Odon, Caen, Esquay, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Goch, Hochwald, Rhine, Ibbenbueren, Dreirwalde, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1940, 44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Bir Hacheim, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Fuka Airfield, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Capture of Haifaya Pass, Nofilia, Tebaga Gap, Enfidaville, Medjez el Bab, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Agroub el Megas, Tunis, Hamman Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Sangro, Salerno, Santa Lucia, Salerno Hills, Cardito, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Lamone Crossing, Orsara, Tossignano, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1943-45, Veve, Greece 1941, 44, 45, Crete, Middle East 1941, Arakan Beaches, Tamandu, Burma 1943-44.

In 2004, Faudel made a comeback on cinema screens, starring in Merzak Allouache's film Bab el web alongside Samy Naceri and Julie Gayet.

* Combined Task Force 150 that patrols from Hormuz, halfway across the Arabia Sea, South as far as the Seychelles, through the Gulf of Aden, up through the strait between Djibouti and Yemen known as the Bab Al Mandeb and into the Red Sea and, finally, around the Horn of Africa ;

Sometimes in the geological past, eruptions of the Perim volcano have blocked the Bab el Mandeb and thus the Red Sea evaporated to an empty hot dry salt-floored sink.

They proposed a metro encompassing two lanes, one 12 km long lane connecting Bab al-Louq and Ismailia and a second 5 km lane connecting Boulaq and Abou al-Ela Castle.

It is located on the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab with a foothold on the Red Sea.

The Red Sea Sharks is an adventure in which Tintin investigates the supporters of Sheikh Bab El Ehr's overthrow of Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab, the Emir of Khemed.

Bab el-Mandab acts as a strategic link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.

From Zanjan, Hudheifa marched to Ardabil which surrendered peacefully and Hudheifa continued his march north along the western coast of the Caspian Sea and captured Bab al-Abwab by force.

From Bab at the western coast of the Caspian Sea, Bukair continued his march north.

* 2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.

In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the Bab Ballads.

In the Bab Ballads and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique " topsy-turvy " style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working out its logical consequences, however absurd.

* 2007 – At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

In the film Bab ' Aziz, directed by Nacer Khemir, a Narcissus like character was portrayed by an ancient prince who sat by a pond for days after days and looked at the reflection of his own soul.

The Mongols were then free to lay siege without interference of the field army as it had been destroyed ... At the siege of Aleppo, Hulegu used twenty catapults against the Bab al-Iraq ( Gate of Iraq ) alone.

Isometric 3D Scanner | laser scan data image of the Bab al-Barqiyya Gate in the 12th century Ayyubid Wall.

On May 21, he camped outside the city, positioning himself east of the Citadel of Aleppo, while his forces encircles the suburb of Banaqusa to the northeast and Bab Janan to the west.

* In North Africa, the kasbah of Marrakesh is built, including the city gate Bab Agnaou and the Koutoubia mosque.

Edward Guiliano even believes that a case can be made for a direct influence of Gilbert's Bab Ballads on the Snark, based on the fact that Carroll was well acquainted with the comic writing and the theatre of his age.

At Bab al-Dhra in Wadi ‘ Araba, archaeologists discovered over 20, 000 shaft tombs with multiple chambers as well as houses of mud-brick containing human bones, pots, jewelry and weapons.

According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.

The song " I know a youth who loves a little maid ," can be traced back to the Bab Ballad, " The Modest Couple ", in which the very shy and proper Peter and Sarah are betrothed but are reluctant to shake hands or sit side by side.

Drawing on several of his earlier " Bab Ballad " poems, Gilbert imbued this plot with mirth and silliness.

The magical mission began with an informal show at the Bab Azoun Theatre in Algeria, where he would give performances twice weekly.

Additionally, Patrash Pasha ( Cigars of the Pharaoh ), Sheikh Bab El Ehr ( Land of Black Gold ) and General Tapioca ( referred to in The Broken Ear and appearing later in Tintin and the Picaros ) are all referred to but don't appear.

Tintin decides to go to Khemed and rescue the emir, who has been overthrown by Sheikh Bab El Ehr.

Since the 1979 revolution, the authorities have destroyed most or all of the Baha ' i holy places in Iran, including the House of the Bab in Shiraz, a house in Tehran where Bahá ' u ' lláh was brought up, and other sites connected to aspects of Babi and Baha ' i history.