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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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5 Not-So-Peaceful Actions of American Nobel Prize Winner President
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5 Not-So-Peaceful Actions of American Nobel Prize Winner President

Friday 12 December 2014
Afghan Surge Obama did not start the war in Afghanistan, but he certainly took a page from his predecessors But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the commander-in-chief of a nation in the midst of two wars, he said after accepting the Nobel P ...
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American Drone Attacks Kill Five More Afghan Schoolchildren
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American Drone Attacks Kill Five More Afghan Schoolchildren

Friday 12 December 2014 ،
Afghan students were killed in a foreign forces air strike in northern Parwan province on Wednesday, Mohammad Zaman Mamozai, the provincial police chief told Reuters. The International Security Assistance Force did not immediately respond to questions on the incident. Civilian casualties caused by a ...
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US, Main Cause of Violence and Insecurity in West Asia
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US, Main Cause of Violence and Insecurity in West Asia

Sunday 28 December 2014 ،
Afghanistan to a base in Kuwait. Alwaght- USA continues to escalate its aerial campaign against ISIS terrorist group, shifting more attack and surveillance aircraft from Afghanistan to a base in Kuwait . Military officials say that a dozen A-10 ground-attack planes have been moved from Afghanistan ...
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Afghanistan and Pakistan Set up Anti-terrorism Talks
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Afghanistan and Pakistan Set up Anti-terrorism Talks

Tuesday 30 December 2014 ،
Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but the country is still gripped by insecurity despite the presence of thousands of foreign forces. Since then Taliban has been responsible for many terrorist action in Afghanistan ca ...
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UK and US Protect the Entire Network of Dictatorial Persian Gulf Arab Regimes

UK and US Protect the Entire Network of Dictatorial Persian Gulf Arab Regimes

Wednesday 31 December 2014 ،
Afghanistan . So you’d hardly think this reminder of the horrors unleashed in the name of the war on terror was the time for Britain to announce its first permanent military base in the Middle East for four decades. The presence of western troops and support for dictatorial Arab regimes were, after ...
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NATO Ends its Invasion of Afghanistan Leaving it With lots of Trouble
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NATO Ends its Invasion of Afghanistan Leaving it With lots of Trouble

Saturday 3 January 2015 ،
Afghanistan, militant attacks by the Taliban and US drone strikes continue to take a heavy toll on Afghan civilians Alwaght-Despite the end of US-led foreign forces’ invasion in Afghanistan, militant attacks by the Taliban and US drone strikes continue to take a heavy toll on Afghan civilians After ...
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18 killed in US-led airstrike in Afghanistan’s Paktika
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18 killed in US-led airstrike in Afghanistan’s Paktika

Sunday 4 January 2015 ،
Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika. Alwaght-At least 18 people have been killed when US-led foreign forces carried out an airstrike in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Paktika. Mukhlis Afghan, a spokesperson for the provincial governor, said on Saturday that the airstrike targeted a convoy o ...
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Terrorists threaten Islam, Prophet, Quran: Nasrallah

Terrorists threaten Islam, Prophet, Quran: Nasrallah

Saturday 10 January 2015 ،
Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, to the states that facilitated visas for terrorists to travel into our country, Nasrallah further noted. Nasrallah’s remarks came after al-Qaeda-affiliated gunmen stormed the Paris headquarters of the satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, on Wednesday, gunning down a dozen p ...
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Rally Across France in Wake of Terror Attacks, Hostage Crises
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Rally Across France in Wake of Terror Attacks, Hostage Crises

Sunday 11 January 2015 ،
Afghanistan, and to build up America's intelligence agencies as a massive domestic spying apparatus, combined with paramilitary forces operating an unaccountable global network of torture and drone murder .
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Thousands Flee Intensifying India-Pakistan Clashes
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Thousands Flee Intensifying India-Pakistan Clashes

Saturday 31 January 2015 ،
Afghanistan. Kumar said he left his village after a shell landed in a school about 3.5 km (2 miles) from the border. “We are living the lives of refugees and we see no hope.  Only more and more firing on our houses, field, cowsheds.” More than 10,000 villagers from border areas have been shifted to ...

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Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity

Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity