The French croissant is a crescent shaped pastry.

The Shadow of the Crescent

The Myth of the Shia Crescent

The crescent moon and star is a symbol of Islam.

The Crescent has cast a seemingly interminable shadow across the length of Pakistan.

Image courtesy Sri Lanka Red Crescent Society's Facebook Page

May 8 is World Red Cross Red Crescent Day.

It is elevated about 340 m above sea level and has a crescent shape.

The Fertile Crescent is considered to be the cradle of civilization.

Prince Faisal is the head of the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society.

The incident unfolded in Ballynagard Crescent on Thursday at about 19 30 BST.

It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger and then through Nigeria, discharging through the Niger Delta into the Atlantic.

Take Iraq, where the looming Shia crescent is often blamed for much of the chaos.

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, as part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Yet the Red Crescent and other relief agencies have been unable to relieve Falluja s civilian population.

EsraD Turkish Red crescent sending 1162 tents, 1000 heaters, 4250 blankets, 500 supply kits deprem Van earthquake

It consisted of a white star and crescent on a triband red black green design, with the central black band being twice the width of the outer bands.

Israel should play an active role in the fall of Assad as a way to undermine the region s Shia crescent and isolate its leader, Iran.

These complexities are lost on many observers when matched up against the convenient and catchy rhetoric of the Shia Crescent.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent.

Yes, America s wars in the region as destructive as they were stupid bear a substantial part of the blame for the mayhem now engulfing the Fertile Crescent.

The complete index is on loan today from the ICRC to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva.

The Prophet Muhammad was a merchant, and the Quraysh (Mecca's ruling tribe at the time of the Prophet) lived by guiding caravans from Arabia to the Fertile Crescent.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, quot while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent.

The Rock n Roll Mardi Gras Marathon and the Crescent City Classic are two road running events held annually in the city.

Recognizing the significant role played by national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in disaster preparedness and risk reduction, disaster response, rehabilitation and development,

Israel would presumably resist this outcome, and Iran as leader of the so called Shia crescent spreading from Lebanon to Tajikistan would strongly, and perhaps violently, oppose such a bargain as well.

So basically, Baku is this sort of crescent bay overlooking the island of Zira, the island that we are planning almost like the diagram of their flag.

The Saudi monarchy s immunity from US pressure for democratic reform owes much to fear of the Shia crescent looming over the Gulf, with Iran at its center.

Recalling that the Twenty eighth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent stressed the need to reinforce the implementation of and respect for international humanitarian law,

8. Emphasizes the importance of the outcome of the Twenty eighth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, held in Geneva from 2 to 6 December 2003

Acknowledging the efforts of international humanitarian organizations, including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in combating the epidemic in the most affected areas of the world,

This region, alongside Mesopotamia (which lies to the east of the Fertile Crescent, between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates), also saw the emergence of early complex societies during the succeeding Bronze Age.

A decade long drought had scorched the Fertile Crescent, and Israel s largest source of freshwater, the Sea of Galilee, had dropped to within inches of the black line at which irreversible salt infiltration would flood the lake and ruin it forever.

And that, according to the authors of Climate Change in the Fertile Crescent and Implications of the Recent Syrian Drought, a 2015 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was the tinder that burned Syria to the ground.

With so much at stake, Majid Jafar of UAE based Crescent Petroleum was right to worry at the recent World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the Dead Sea.

Acknowledging with appreciation the important and independent contribution of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and other humanitarian agencies in protecting and assisting internally displaced persons, in cooperation with relevant international bodies,

Saudi Arabia is just as eager to contain the Iranian threat and the growing Shi a crescent that, with the empowerment of the Shi a in Iraq, has moved westward to begin to include the Shi a regions of the Kingdom.

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A watershed is a tipping point, a turning point, a game changer.