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he did i'll be in doha with the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. is warning of a global response against syria for reports of a chemical attack in the rebel stronghold of eastern ghouta are confirmed syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed in a suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it a fabrication and a huckster has more a warning you may find some images in this report distressing. believe it or not these children are the lucky ones basic and crude emergency care for victims of a suspected chemical attack but they survived they didn't these are the latest victims in eastern as regime forces and closer to defeating them planets in the rebel held pocket medical sources on the ground say victims appear to say symptoms consistent with mix nerve or chlorine gas exposure syrian state media has dismissed talk of the regime using a poison gas as fast sickle. local hospital staff say many of the victims of

saturday's attacks were treated for suffocation only a few number of physicians and medical staff are lived in to treat the on the work menu and there are these right now are there shield in basements and use indorse you know chemical weapons like chlorine or similar products by the fact that this gas goes down to the basement and those people are now or taking shields from barrel bombs are getting toxic you to those chemical weapons and that's where the casualties are high and. the syrian government forces stepped up their offensive on the rebel held duma after a ten day trees collapsed. the russian brokered cease fire fell through of a disagreement over evacuating rebels hundreds of fighters and their families were convoyed out of jumah but josh al islam one of the main rebel groups refused to go delaying president assad's overall conquest this is the most important biggest the

. city in the area and by capturing it actually they would be just finishing off all the presence of the opposition in this i mean very important strategic area surrounding the mosque is not only that they would be evacuating the area from the most. position and force which is jason islam or the army of islam. with the latest standoff between assets government and the last rebel held town scenes like this looks set to continue. their. the polls have opened in hungary's parliamentary election following a heated campaign dominated by immigration the prime minister viktor orban cast his vote in budapest a short time ago he's favored to win a third consecutive term but that's despite claims of widespread corruption within his government. the former brazilian president lula da silva has arrived in prison to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption last year was found guilty of taking bribes

from an engineering firm in return for helping it get state contracts. i'm doing a very conscious very conscious thing i told the camarines that if it depends on my will i would not go but i will go i'm going because they will say tomorrow that is out of the way that he didn't know i'm not hiding i'm going to go there so they know i'm not afraid so they know i'm not going to run and i am going to prove my innocence. thousands of people have attended funerals in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protests along the border is thirty people have died since demonstrations began last week. two people have been killed and dozens were injured after a van was driven into a crowd in the german city of month stop the driver died at the scene after shooting himself official said the incident is not terror related. one person zeidan a fire at the building that bears the u.s. president's name the blaze began on the fiftieth floor of trump tower in new york

donald trump has tweeted that the fire is. the last been raised on a smoking volcano in chile emergency teams have been sent to the bio bio region ahead of a possible eruption the chief kaino in the n.d.s. is one of the biggest and most active in the country here is largely rural but a popular tourist destination to those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the caliph season. the caliph are. a form of rule in a slam. that lasted for almost thirteen centuries. from the death of the prophet muhammad. to the overthrow of the last ottoman caliph in one thousand nine hundred twenty four. the arabic ten to twenty eighth twenty

five which actually in essence simply means a success at all or a identity. the ruler of the islamic world would call himself confederacy were no success so ultimately. through the centuries. the title of caliph is a term that has been used. at the times abuse. in june two thousand and fourteen. a militant group calling itself the islam mixtape and iraq in the levant isis. declared the establishment of a caliphate. they call rejected by most muslims around the world. by so programmed its leader of the balkans but the. account of.

the men no love with the. appropriate thing a title imbued with a religious and political significance. and costing a dark shadow. over a rich history. this account of baghdad in the since destroying attempting to destroy much of the legacy. scaly ifs i want to preserve and to to foster. in the setting with us and he said let's have the most steady let's unlock the assault and the team will miss the killing. and i had the kind of movie this is a minister of an image. this is the story of a type two of the originated one thousand four hundred years ago. that spawn one of the greatest empires the world has ever known. this

is the story of the kind of. medina saudi arabia. last resting place of muhammad. the prophet of islam. it was here in june of the year six hundred thirty two. that he died ofter a brief illness. the prophet left behind

a young and fiber to samik state uniting most of the tribes of a arabian peninsula. with medina as its capital. amman plan while the assessment value in the safaga the nebuchadnezzar main and sometimes with what does the many good subject done in the us yet that is a mob and has so what they. but i can see you must know that the hondas the. and the senate and who would lessen. the call for thought. the. ten years earlier muhammad and a group of his early followers would come to be known as a more headroom or the emigrants had fled mecca and persecution by the pagan

leaders of their own try for a ship. or war will the prophet and the emigrants were given shelter by the citizens of medina. with their off to be cold alone song. meaning the supporters. together these two groups formed the so haba the close companions of the prophet the successor would come from one of them. and i would be in the home and he had been led to and i that well he then he can have him and yet i would rule that bad none of us would. be in a humble building but used to stand on the sights of this public gone. but the

supporters gathered to decide which of them would be the prophet successor. but two of the leading emigrants. and almost interrupting their deliberations. had util an idol international in the end i thought it cannot be learned in our hand you have none that i know that in islam and i was in the navy that it. gannett in mohajer many are less as. after hours of heated debate. the claim of the emigrants was judged to have precedence. of. a done while awake and. yet in that it. had he is sure he didn't wish to land no bad there and bury are almost. a third way out.

in a humble building in medina a new age had begun. a new title written into history. a title that would ring down the ages. the first caliph of islam the successor of mohammed was to be a book a city. the following day a box position was confirmed when the most income unity gave. an oath of allegiance to the new caliph.

o.-p. put a pick task has been assigned to me. now it is beyond doubt that i have been elected european. though i'm not better than you. as long as i obey our laws and his prophet. when i disobeyed him and his. prophet. than obey me not. above was the first of four would be known as the russia do. the right to god it kind of says. they were zero people who had been very close to the prophet muhammad during his lifetime as his companion as those who had converted. to islam and had dedicated in sounds to the formation of the community the spreading of the message

here that for in eighty campaigns and internet of the prophet mohammed in a way it's. almost done even by i did include our well the out. what the have. the call the body of rome out of the cup loblaws how about how you. tell us to. look over have your time even muslim in the lab in a struggle ok valdemar. job in that not to come and be a two month. was a profoundly spiritual a modest man. but when some of the arabian tribes rose up in rebellion refusing to submit to the new caliphate he was quick to act. as a much to someone who knows a hell of a rate that he knows all the tribal details the genealogies the clowns the

weaknesses the strengths who could be employed against whom and he transformed himself into this extraordinary powerful man. of a book or a declared war on the rebel tribes and after a year of heavy fighting. he emerged victorious. his attention was now turned to the territory of the two superpowers of the era the sas and its in persia. and the by sun times of the east and the roman empire. in an all day shift move taking on both empires at once he launched the muslim conquests. but crucially he gave his men orders to preserve

not destroy. the. usual. ballet i thought a little in the set. of the looting with a day union of the mob in. a box commander in the east. made good ground in iraq fighting the sauce and. the four armies sent to attack by sun time garrisons in the levant were meeting heavy resistance. on the other hand it would be moved his men across the desert to the west. and six thirty four on the fields of here in palestine. the

most them he's gathered to take on the might by zante of. the most. wicked and. even one the. well in the. middle. of a will. to have someone modify it all. but in the wake of victory as that. and after just two years this kind. of book to die at the age of sixty one. there's no moment where there's an election or

a council and we just have this placement as it were like a vice president coming on to the throne of the kind of what of becomes that. over the next ten years almost. the second right he got it kind of. would show himself to be a great strategist and state but. a few days after he became callous. almost on this once more on the kind of conquer damascus. but. was soon to be stripped of his command.

obama i mean who are you seeing been one to say that. what obama said that you know might have bought a lot of the of the why and the how did file add a new war and. the and the men had run out of milk out bob in them until suddenly well i'm the lab you're almost well i've been. after two years the caliph would recalled his brilliant commander to the battlefront once again this time here in northern georgia and in the tranquil valley of the yarmouk river. in august six thirty six this was where the by son time army clashed with muslim forces underfed. once more victory to the muslims. of good will by the.

entrance to have. a day off the hook and the head to hit and miss with the needle to any time we can see you are all. about. you know. the muslim conquests moved on wards in all directions capturing the rest of the live on. great cities. finally they laid siege to jerusalem it's so. often making the list and i don't see. a woman. yeah. well you. see. this. jerusalem significance lay as it still does today and its position as a holy place for the three great monotheistic religions judaism christianity.

and islam. only for jerusalem was almost prepared to make his first and last journey a scholar if. not . all more often to small who has them. she had a malice allah. in medina again a dollar on. the whole does rock was a slum moa levy yet. for the deaf and. that. one i'll us all well i'll tell ya.

sophrony is the peach and welcome to mon given the keys of the city and then told them to come and pray in the holy sepultura the holiest church of christe and. who said no i will not pray here and when the patriarch asked why not just because if i play here then after me muslims will come and want to pray here take this church from you and i want you to have this church. a instead almost prayed just outside the church. in later years on the exact spot. this mosque was a red. herring the cultists name. to this day a copy of the pledge that almost gave to the christians of jerusalem can be seen

hanging on the walls of the smalls. this is an assurance of peace and protection given by the servant of a law i'm not commendable to believe it's to the people of jerusalem. he gave them an assurance of protection for their lives property cherish and crosses as well as the sick and the healthy and only street because clearly. it's a wonderful journey and same news stories about o'mara back to puritanical command but his journey jerusalem he's at his best he is sorting out the faith traditions honoring them in a city that can be shared by all faith communities. with the muslims now in full control of the levant they moved west and conquered egypt.

in the east the caliphs armies triumphed over the south and it's a call to say. an advanced on the capital. test before. yes. at the time the largest city in the world. all that remains today of tessie form. is the arch of course. once the throne home of persia and grooms. you have to remember the two great superpowers of the by sometime and the had screwed the world for the last four hundred years they were. putting it in a modern parlance it's

a bit like the eskimos taking on the united states of america and russia. in october six forty four at the height of his powers and while leading the feds don't prayers almost was assassinated by disaffected persian slave. on one of the couple because i leave that. that it is them who has allowed to visit many accidents with. who. and you know i did it. yeah i need to stop the and. if you have your arm out of the cut up see how much this saturday idea. that did see has yes.

if you have. a minute. to go with. the leadership of the muslims now to a man with a markedly different character. became the third day of the russian the rocky guided caliphs. shrine to one. resting place of one of the. the prophet muhammad's close companion. was killed in the early attempts to conquer the area during the reign of the.

one. off man. the what i can change how any and. what has a. bizarre. at first successful the campaign soon run into problems over the division of the spoils of war. and the effort for four months i don't on that i'm afraid of not offending the shia at all whether the us get it home with some hamas. that can be. a hold off man that i'm about can at them and i want to go ahead and show but how many c.f.c.'s the. how an

act is settling out that. the ruling elite of this empire where rules are rife from hammett's tribe to tribe of carraige these people have become the rule is a very very wealthy empire and they also have laws that have been drawn from across the peninsula and now we're being settled in garrisons in egypt and iran and so i think the politics and the economics of the situation who are almost inevitably going to drive conflict. in six fifty five mutinies broke out against the kind of uncalled for and bustle. and in the garrison that's a stall in egypt. a year later on gravels marched to medina and took up positions around off months house calling on

him to step down. he broke a disease has tended to see things get ugly but she's broken into and he's assassinated killed and it's said that so. full symbolic moment he was meditating reading the koran the company one of his wives the blood of the third kid of the spilt on the cross to the goat that emblematic moment when the word of god is splattered with blood and it's as if the islamic community will never know peace again. once again a caliph had been assassinated. but this time the killers were muslims. less than a quarter of a century after the death of the prophet. calles. we're

heading to the place so deep in the proving amazon it's taken us two days on this boat just to get there from the search current danger. no look at what is being done to protect one of the region's most iconic creatures is. disappearing because . the trade with the main. reintroduction of viable option to save some of these population pretty good. techno on al jazeera and. al jazeera. every.

peter dhabi in doha with the top stories from al-jazeera the u.s. is warning of an international response against syria if reports of a chemical attack in the rebel stronghold of eastern groups are confirmed syrian medics say at least seventy people have been killed in a suspected gas strike in duma the syrian government is calling it a fabrication the polls have opened in hungary's parliamentary elections following a heated campaign dominated by immigration prime minister viktor orban cast his vote in budapest a short time ago he's favored to win a third consecutive term but that's despite claims of widespread corruption within his government after voting horgan said since he's fighting for the future of hungary the former brazilian president lula da silva has arrived in prison to begin a twelve year sentence for corruption last year when that was found guilty of taking bribes from an engineering firm in return for helping it get state contracts . i'm doing a very conscious very conscious thing i told the camarines that if it depends on my

will i would not go but i will go i'm going because they will say tomorrow that lula is out of the way that he didn't know i'm not hiding i'm going to go there so they know i'm not afraid so they know i'm not going to run and i am going to prove my innocence. thousands of people have attended funerals in gaza for the ten palestinians killed by israeli forces during friday's protests along the border at least thirty people have died since demonstrations began last week two people have been killed and dozens injured after a van was driven into a crowd in the german city of munster the driver died at the scene after shooting himself official suv incident is not terror related. the u.s. national guard has confirmed it will deploy up to four thousand troops to the border with mexico after calls from president donald trump to beef up security the initial deployment will include five hundred soldiers and military equipment including helicopters and c. to increase manpower on the southern border follows

a sharp rise in the fuel border crossings the last being raised on a smoking volcano in chile emergency teams have been sent to the bio bio reach and ahead of a possible eruption the chia and volcano in the n.d.s. is one of the biggest and most active in the entire country those are your headlines so far today the news continues here on al-jazeera after the calif i will see you very sort of like. the year six fifty six. just a quarter of a century has passed since the death of the prophet muhammad. and the foundation of the caliphate. the third caliph offerman

has been murdered by a group of rebels in the capital. baghdad as monrovia lahore and ghana living e.s.u. would get in the dino and your will follow the. that's the why can you not when i mean i mean. what in the hell you are like admitting my duty in one stop. cousin and son in law of the prophet. to the pressure becoming the force of the russia doing the right kind of us. the media's plunge fall from being a spiritual sort of lost philosopher poet theologian he's plunged into having to cope with a very very muggy political waters. iraq

. bedrock of support for the new caliph ali. abandoning medina he moved this capital here in the face of a growing threat coming from close to the prophet himself. calling for the punishment of off months killers isha one of the prophet's wives and two of his closest companions. and his superiors gathered an army to do battle with the new caliph. it came to be known as the battle of the camps. they set the scene for violent conflicts between moments for my companions ali was victorious and taunts a battle defeated are you sure withdrew from public life after this defeat.

the islamic state had fallen into its first civil war. the first but not the last. damascus the syrian capital. and six thirty four and after almost seven centuries of the roman rule. the city was conquered by muslims. an army commander was appointed governor of the mosques and later the entire

province. i mean i mean look at that he shot me well and good as an incentive but honest and that's where you are i mean a warm bit idea at the n.c.i.c. who i let you lay if i lay him. some high level below i get my hour or evaluate a show me your own shadow be on them while we are well as a law in a. law you have came from the same family of the kharaj troy the oh my yes as the murdered caliph. he refused to give the oath of allegiance to the new caliph. many of a man's relatives began to mom but only hand over those killers for justice and the center of a myatt resistance to allah he was syria which was governed by a member of a finance family his second cousin michael olea. and six fifty seven

ali marched northwards to quell malia's mutiny. they met a battle called prophecy feed which was inconclusive and they agreed to negotiate this proved to be a canny decision on the part of more always because it's split elise support some of his supporters felt that he shouldn't be negotiate. same as the if he should just fight until he does stop missed his power. in january of six sixty one. the dissidents and army decided to try to wrest power from the elite. they plan to assassinate. and is. the governor of egypt. but their conspiracy ended with only one victim ali

the cut. off to three decades the first chapter. of the russian to the right to god. was. going to say that they never do and. that would mean i still. really need it denia lay in the sense that he is c.s.e. while we have been answered yet. the and the c.s.l. now. i want to assure you that at the. law we emerged triumphant establishing the almighty caliphate. a new dentist no longer primarily religious. the caliphate now begun

to look more like a model. in the ruins of on the job in eastern eleven a. once thought to be by some time roman the city was in fact my domain. they had adopted the architectural style of the boys on titus along with the structures of imperial rule. but under all the numbers this see but he was one hundred can all at the last though and one of them and hawkman bizarre and put out the reason for this is for after the one in the main the hut

they have no desire to see death but there's not much faith. in the it's there but . before on a thirty two ways solid in cern. under maja the caliphate changed its form. and as a king would have done he named his son jesse as his successor. the early caliphate was not dynastic people were chosen by being designated by fact previous tests or by groups and he consulted amongst themselves so it was if you like elect even the least this possible sense of the word and that's have a first for cain if which chosen by few not the consensus of the early mist in community. became color from his father's death in sixty eight.

his rule was to plunge the states into another civil war. in. medina the first couple to powerful figures in the muslim community were beginning to build strong opposition to his in. a particularly important examples are abdullah the son of the bear who were challenged ali in the first civil war also who is sane the son of ali who had been kailash during the first civil war he also resisted the call for a pledge of allegiance to his ear. to signal his rejection of years each kind of. scene left medina for america from there he set off for coup for former stronghold of his father.

but then october sixth eighty here in karbala iraq has its forces trapped and killed the same and most of the members of his family. nonetheless opposition to a maid rule was far from over. and done remains a pair refused to pledge allegiance to yours and he described himself as the one who seek sanctuary in god's house and went to mecca sought refuge there easy decided to send an army against up to ribbons of bad but i've driven as a bear was saved by the premature death of years and at that moment in six eight three he proclaimed himself. meanwhile in damascus ma you know the second son of yours he was installed that's the third

column of the my dentist. but within a few weeks he died leaving no son no successor a power vacuum seized on by the rival caliph and. co yet the model that. let the. eleven exhibit such as that how will bother about a lot of the. iraq. welcome back i need. to see. a man the jordanian capital. city overlooked by the remains of a bison tynecastle. and the palace of the main government. the tribes of jordan with

a loss to stay loyal to the mites. in six eighty four a tribal gathering held here chose marwan as a new and my youth callous. and it was his son abdul-malik would reunite the islamic state under the firm rule of the almighty it's. the dome of the rock. jerusalem's most recognizable lung. built on the odors of the in my youth caliphs magic this is the third holiest sites in islam. but at the time the two most holy sites the mosques of mecca and medina lay in the hands

of the almighty its rival calif it was obeyed. in six ninety one as a judge a ruthless a made general set off for islam's holiest place with a powerful army. sent him to seach to mecca and defeat even sabbat perhaps because i'm dumb i can self didn't want to be too closely associated with the damage to the shrine. of the sea. and a desperate missile base shelter in the slums most sacred shrine. the kaaba. but the hijazi was not to be deterred and the border with a couple. after eight months of determined resistance.

if mr bad was killed and last ditch fighting. was stopped by the management my one and your ego he did dolan is demi at my left and jenny that was a new age she has said he had been checking in a lot why barack at the. woman just sad to see about that said the many women when you see i've been at the u.n. i don't believe. after two decades as callous. the legacy of stability to the sun. and the town they sure. would build a still great and park. the

capital of modern morocco. it was here in seven zero eight that the armies of the all made color. reached the atlantic coast. after more than fifty years of fierce resistance by local berber tribes the muslims had finally conquered the whole of north africa. got our way before i don't mean that you want to fight or win and this out of one of his i met one is the cloud water avoid a shut up where the shade. having been conquered. the berbers discovered that islam had much to offer and began to convert and assimilate. one of them. thought of goodness yet was about to write his name in history.

thought. the mountain of thought. gibraltar. southern tip of the iberian peninsula. it was here in the spring of seven hundred and eleven torics on me of berbers land after crossing the mediterranean. inside three years he had toppled the visigoths rulers. and secured almost total control of the peninsula turning it into a colorful province known as under lucio. power about me when i can all mostly one public army doesn't f a did india did. the other thing a did and he did not follow. along with the great

conquests in europe there was more success in asia. muslim armies began advancing towards what is today pakistan afghanistan and the central asian republics. within ten years they had reached the borders of china. had built the biggest empire yet no. as you know has iemma entity my command general many military i mean us. commander general. we necessary command the forest cover our minister thirty. meanwhile i was wily an odd duck he had a few thoughts on him but. unlike

the traditions of earliest. the walls of course cite ombre in the jordanian desert are painted in a by sometimes style. here and when he is depicted not as a religious figure but as an emperor. in just ten years he had made himself the most powerful man on earth. but the successes would struggle to retain that power. the peyronie's. the daunting natural barrier between spain and france.

in seven thirty two under the command of up the russian monitors off of the governor of under lucio. muslim forces across these mountains into french territory . seemingly unstoppable they advance north capturing one city after another. from the left at the unity zero and it's look it does he think he. needs to be hugged. and that. unknown. illness had unsolved. come is to me he. knew what i mean and how to look. on this field to the north of the french city of what it. did france and troops

were stopped by frankish army under shop mouth then. the muslims were defeated and their commander up to rahmani kill. the muslims remember this battle of the martyrs dog. but european history knows it as the battle of tools. of victory that stopped the northern spread of islam and saved pristine europe. it then came to symbolize for later historians in particular for the great english historian edward gibbon he saw it as a decisive turning point in the battle between. europe and the muslim world and he famously said that if it hadn't been for charles martel and sure we would now be preaching the koran in oxford.

this defeat in europe in the reign of the tenth of may it caliph a sham brought an end to a my youth invincibility. and just as his palace in jericho palestine lies in ruins today. is shams death in seven forty three through the whole state into chaos. after almost two years of all made family infighting over the caliphate one the second emerged as the fourteenth and last in my youth calendar. for my javelin few of my one being mohamed my one been a mad gun a. does heart attack well i guess that they are and the yorkie.

absolved by his efforts to contain trouble at the heart of the state the new caliph was oblivious to grave events unfolding in the east. a rather mysterious leader whose remember by the name of a muslim was calling for pledges of allegiance to the prophet's family and he managed to draw a substantial following from eastern iran into an army to opponents of mind rule. the rebel army marched westward and captured coup for in iraq. in november seven forty nine here in the city's mosque by on the oath of allegiance was given to the first a bus in calif. they proclaimed a man as called abu allah. and he was a descendant of one of the prophet muhammad's uncles and he based his claim to the

caliphate on that kinship with the prophet mohammed. in january seven fifteen. on the banks of the zab river in iraq the oh my it's led by their color not a want for their last battle against the us at all. after a heavy defeat marwan escaped westwards. that summer of the year seven fifteen he was killed by the a bus. after nineteen years in power you might caliph it had been brought to an end. why the mayans lost power and what exactly happened in the bossy revolution is a difficult question but it seems to be related to this ongoing sense that the

profits family had a right to rule the kayla fight and this was a problem of the a my it's never really successfully contained. some muslims believe that the caliphate should always have remained strictly within the prophet's bloodline. this belief would lead to the biggest splits in the history of islam. a split which is still exploited to this day. the centuries old divide. between sunni and shia.

story fourteen hundred years in the make. a story of success and leadership. as jersey that tells the story of dispute and division. one of. the kind of assault. on a just zero. hello there we've still got an awful lot of cloud over parts of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing that cloud from saudi arabia all the way through iran is stretching up into afghanistan then up towards kazakstan as well and if this eastern region where we've got most of the wet weather as we head into sunday so i think afghanistan is looking pretty wet there and then gradually as you head further north that's likely to turn to snow over some of the mountains behind

it there's also a fair amount of cloud at times and maybe just the odd showers but nothing too significant as the next system gradually edges its way eastwards there's also a fair amount of cloud over post saudi arabia at the moment then and that's also affecting us here in doha and stretching a bit further south so we even have a pulse of the u.a.e. there is more in the way of cloud and that could just give us a few spots of rain is likely to stick around as we head through monday today for the south it's fine for most of us in there if we had downed tools of southern parts of africa we're seeing a fair amount of wet weather this week stretching its way southwards from angola and down into namibia does look like even talk is going to see quite a few downpours there on sunday and on monday to to the south of all of that still staying dry force in cape town twenty two degrees maximum for the east staying rather unsettled here for many of us in mozambique we can expect to see some heavy showers.

getting to the heart of the matter if well stuff i can see the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you expect given us ladies going to you and to terms with facing realities are you willing to make that call the are always ready for talk about that i'm going to do for taking israel hear their story on talk to al-jazeera in recent years the sawhill of north africa as witness the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera.