Sentence examples for captured jerusalem from inspiring English sources

In 1187, the Muslim military ruler Saladin captured Jerusalem from the descendants of crusaders.

In 597 bc the Babylonians under King Nebuchadrezzar besieged and captured Jerusalem.

His troops captured Jerusalem (614), destroyed churches, and carried off the True Cross.

After all, the Persians had captured Jerusalem in 614 and soon moved into Egypt.

In 1071 the Seljuqs captured Jerusalem, which prospered as pilgrimages by Jews, Christians, and Muslims increased despite political instability.

After struggles against Antigonus, the Parthian nominee, in which he was assisted by Roman troops, Herod eventually captured Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM — Israel said Tuesday that it had advanced plans to expand a Jewish district of Jerusalem in territory that was captured in the 1967 war and that the Palestinians claim as part of their future state.

Iran Video of Arab Hostages By The New York Times JERUSALEM, April 8 -- Video on Iranian television showed the two Palestinians captured in Iraq on Thursday, their Israeli identity cards and an American driver's license, and a masked man saying in Arabic that his group has "kidnapped these two spies who belong to the Zionist enemy".

JERUSALEM — Thin and wan, but lucid and very much alive, Gilad Shalit, the captured Israeli soldier whose fate has gripped Israel for more than three years, appeared in a video on Friday holding a Palestinian newspaper dated Sept. 14.

JERUSALEM — Seeking to lower expectations of an imminent deal with the Islamic group Hamas to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Tuesday that no agreement had yet been reached.

JERUSALEM — Israel and the Islamist group Hamas appeared Monday to be nearing a deal to exchange a captured Israeli soldier for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, possibly including a popular leader, a move with far-reaching implications not only for stalled Middle East peace talks but for a range of regional relations.