khalifa

Example Sentences

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In Dubai, the Middle East's commercial hub with the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, residents looked up to see missiles surge through the sky.

From Barron's

It remains divided between a UN-recognised government based in Tripoli and an eastern administration backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar.

From Barron's

The sequence that results is at least as impressive as Tom Cruise clinging to the Burj Khalifa in the fourth “Mission: Impossible,” and considerably funnier.

From The Wall Street Journal

There, he is alleged to have met two accomplices - Abdulbasset Al Megrahi, the Libyan agent convicted of bombing the plane after standing trial 25 years ago, and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, a former Libyan Arab Airline official who was cleared by the same Scottish court.

From BBC

“We’ve always said this about him. He takes a lot of risk, and sometimes it backfires,” said Dareen Khalifa, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group who has interviewed Sharaa multiple times.

From The Wall Street Journal