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Saudi Arabia holds special significance for ISIS, according to Cole Bunzel, a scholar of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, who notes that for its senior leaders, the kingdom is "aCurrent symbolism. The current flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is a plain white flag with the black words of the shahada in the centre. The white stands for “the (Islamic Movement of Taliban’s) purity of faith and government”; the flag incorporated the shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith, after 1997. [12] [13]Soldiers of the Sharifian Army carrying the flag of the Arab Revolt in southern Yanbu. The Arab Revolt ( Arabic: الثورة العربية al-Thawra al-‘Arabiyya) or the Great Arab Revolt ( الثورة العربية الكبرى al-Thawra al-‘Arabiyya al-Kubrā) was an armed uprising by the Arabs against the Ottoman Empire amidst the
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