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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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US Goes on Spying on Friendly Countries: WikiLeaks

US Goes on Spying on Friendly Countries: WikiLeaks

Sunday 5 July 2015
4th July revelation unveiled that that she Even on her official travels is not safe from interception as the target list includes the Inmarsat satellite phone service for the President's jet. Commenting on the US espionage campaign against Brazil, the Whistleblowing group's founder Julian A ...
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Invasion of Kuwait

Invasion of Kuwait

Tuesday 24 May 2016 ،
4th Nebuchadnezzar Motorized Infantry Division) and Iraqi Army special forces units equivalent to a full division. The main thrust was conducted by the commandos deployed by helicopters and boats to attack Kuwait City (see Battle of Dasman Palace), while the other divisions seized the airports and t ...
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Ancient Sites Damaged, Destroyed by ISIS in Iraq

Ancient Sites Damaged, Destroyed by ISIS in Iraq

Thursday 16 June 2016 ،
4th century, the monastery was dedicated to an early Christian saint. The holy site, maintained since the late 1800s by Syriac Catholic monks, survived the Mongol hordes in the 1200s but fell to ISIS in March. The extremists used explosives to destroy the saint’s tomb and its elaborate carving ...
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Turkish President Accuses Germany of Supporting Terrorism

Turkish President Accuses Germany of Supporting Terrorism

Saturday 4 March 2017 ،
4th Phoenix Awards ceremony, held by the Turkish Green Crescent Society in Istanbul, Erdogan said The German authorities “need to be put on trial for aiding and harboring terror,” adding that They [German officials] need to be put on trial for aiding and harboring terror. A group of Ger ...
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North Korea Warns of Nuclear War over US Provocations

North Korea Warns of Nuclear War over US Provocations

Sunday 9 July 2017 ،
4th tested an intermediate range rocket, despite the US’ insistence that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile. “A Voronezh-type radar station deployed in the Irkutsk region monitored the launch of the Hwasong-14 medium-range ballistic missile (IRBM) from North Korea, which flew ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies