Middle East Crossword

5. the religion of the Muslims, a monotheistic faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah.
6. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
8. the monotheistic religion of the Jews.
9. take a weapon or weapons away from (a person, force, or country)
10. breaking into parts; the act of dividing or separating; example: the separation of land by the creation of boundaries that divide the land into different political parts.
11. zone, a territory or an area over which aircraft are not permitted to fly
12. the capital of Iraq.
13. name for a territory taken from the Ottoman Turks after World War I under the control of Britain or France.
14. combative and aggressive in support of a political or social cause, and typically favoring extreme, violent, or confrontational methods.
15. a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam

1. militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s
2. a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture
3. a member of the people and cultural community whose traditional religion is Judaism and who trace their origins through the ancient Hebrew people of Israel to Abraham.
4. a follower of the religion of Islam.
6. a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s
7. a member of a Semitic people, originally from the Arabian peninsula and neighboring territories, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa.