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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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Indigenous Australian Women Face Imprisonment, Discrimination: Report
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Indigenous Australian Women Face Imprisonment, Discrimination: Report

Monday 15 May 2017
Aboriginals Last month a UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights voiced deep concerns over Australia’s high rates of indigenous incarceration. And she believes this discrepancy is about discrimination, rather than indigenous Australians committing more crimes. UN Special Rapporteur ...
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Kirkuk Governor Election Iraq’s New Contentious Point
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Kirkuk Governor Election Iraq’s New Contentious Point

Saturday 27 July 2019 ،
While Kurdish parties agreed on a candidate for the province, Arabs argue that election should be entrusted to parliament not provincial council. Alwaght- While Iraq after the defeat of ISIS is returning to the pre-2014 stability and security, levels of political disputes remain between the central ...
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Kashmir Row Can Hit Kashmiris’ Rights, Overshadow Afghanistan Peace: Expert
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Kashmir Row Can Hit Kashmiris’ Rights, Overshadow Afghanistan Peace: Expert

Thursday 8 August 2019 ،
India has revoked autonomy of Kashmir, provoking fury from Pakistan which says all options are on the table. Alwaght- Tensions are on the rise afresh in the Indian Subcontinent after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has recently revoked the autonomy of Jammu and Kas ...
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10,000s Rally to Oppose Australia Day Which Marks Start of British Colonialism
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10,000s Rally to Oppose Australia Day Which Marks Start of British Colonialism

Sunday 26 January 2020 ،
Aboriginals, whose cultures stretch back tens of thousands of years before the British arrived, remain the most disadvantaged Australians, with higher rates of poverty, ill health, and imprisonment than any other community in the country. They were believed to have numbered around one million at th ...

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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.