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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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BDS Movement: Palestine’s Historic Chance to Break Free from Israeli Economic Dominance
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BDS Movement: Palestine’s Historic Chance to Break Free from Israeli Economic Dominance

Saturday 31 May 2025
2000 to 66,000. After the Second Intifada, as Israeli violations of international law intensified, the global BDS (Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment) movement was formed to pressure Israel, copying its idea from the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa. Palestine trade and its reliance on Israel ...
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Gaza, the "Hungriest Place on Earth"
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Gaza, the "Hungriest Place on Earth"

Sunday 1 June 2025 ،
200,000 people in Gaza for a full month.  However, the Israelis are not allowing this aid to enter under various pretexts in order to force Palestinians to migrate from Gaza. Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a pres ...
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Chaos in Los Angeles as California Rises against White House
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Chaos in Los Angeles as California Rises against White House

Monday 9 June 2025 ،
people had been arrested. Meanwhile, Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, the consul general of Mexico in Los Angeles, told the Washington Post that more than 20 of those arrested during the protests in Los Angeles were Mexican nationals. At the same time, reports said the US police used tear gas, tasers an ...
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Creeping Inflation in Persian Gulf Arab States
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Creeping Inflation in Persian Gulf Arab States

Wednesday 11 June 2025 ،
2009 and 2024 averaged 0.09 percent, reaching a high of 1.59 percent in December 2023 and a low of -2.6 percent in January 2022. Bahrain  Im Bahrain, inflation rate remained stable, recording an annual increase of just 0.5 percent in December 2024, with the overall CPI reaching a 12-month low ...
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Israel’s Costs of War on Iran
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Israel’s Costs of War on Iran

Friday 27 June 2025 ،
200 million a day to operate. Naser Abdul Karim, a professor of financial affairs at American-Palestinian University, told Abadolu news agency that this war not only impacted the Israeli military budget but also Israeli production capacity. He estimates that total direct and indirect damage of war ...
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Nearly 100,000 Palestinians Killed in Israel’s Gaza Genocide
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Nearly 100,000 Palestinians Killed in Israel’s Gaza Genocide

Sunday 29 June 2025 ،
200 people had died violently during the Israeli aggression, mostly due to Israeli munitions, with an additional 8,540 non-violent deaths. Since then, over 10,000 more deaths have been reported, bringing the total fatalities close to 100,000. The study reveals that the Gaza Health Ministry’s ...
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Haraki Tribe Rebellion: A Socio-Political Quake for Barazanis
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Haraki Tribe Rebellion: A Socio-Political Quake for Barazanis

Saturday 12 July 2025 ،
200,000 barrels of oil are smuggled through tankers and unofficial ports every month.” MP Suhaila Soltani also admitted that “the profits the Barzanis make from this operation go to their own account and are in no way related to the interests of the Kurdish community.” For a long ...
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West Bank Protests Slam Israeli Atrocities and Famine Tactics in Gaza
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West Bank Protests Slam Israeli Atrocities and Famine Tactics in Gaza

Sunday 20 July 2025 ،
200,000 and famine worsening the crisis.
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Tehran-Beijing Rail Connection: How’s Iran Become China’s Big Partner?
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Tehran-Beijing Rail Connection: How’s Iran Become China’s Big Partner?

Tuesday 22 July 2025 ،
2006, China became the top economic partner of Iran, unseating Japan. The Asian heavyweight has actively invested in the Iranian market. China is just unlike Japan which in 2006 cut its investment stake at Iran’s Azadegan oilfield under the US pressure. Rapid economic development has led to a ...
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Why’s Iranian Branch of PKK not Disarmed?
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Why’s Iranian Branch of PKK not Disarmed?

Monday 28 July 2025 ،
2004 as a branch of the PKK for terror and violence in Iran’s Kurdistan province. All the documents and statements by the group show that the founding members were actually PKK members and mostly Iranian Kurds. A review of sources shows that the PJAK and the PKK have always stressed Abdullah ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.