Bab \Bab\, n. [Per.] Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||
Gunfire erupted in the city's Bab el-Oued Moslem stronghold last night as police surrounded the area.
Friday prayers in the three or four areas of the city which are FIS strongholds (Bab el Oued, Kouba, Belcourt and Badjarah) remain tense with an ever present risk of violence.
A French warship today fired warning shots to halt a North Korean freighter near Djibouti in the Bab al Mandab strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
The confrontation late Wednesday night at the Atlas Hall in the capital's Bab el-Oued district was the latest of several such incidents.