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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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Putin Pans US Airstrikes against Syrian, Iraqi Residential Neighborhoods
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Putin Pans US Airstrikes against Syrian, Iraqi Residential Neighborhoods

Saturday 10 March 2018
Airwars group, which records and verifies reports of deaths in Iraq and Syria. If the figure included the deaths since March, when the SDF started preparations for the siege, in would be above 2,000, higher than the estimated coalition kills during the capture of Mosul in Iraq, a city several times ...
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50 People Killing Weekly in Syria’s Raqqa, Captured by US-Backed Militias: UN
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50 People Killing Weekly in Syria’s Raqqa, Captured by US-Backed Militias: UN

Wednesday 18 April 2018 ،
Airwars group, which records and verifies reports of deaths in Iraq and Syria. If the figure included the deaths since March, when the SDF started preparations for the siege, in would be above 2,000, higher than the estimated coalition kills during the capture of Mosul in Iraq, a city several times ...
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US-Led Coalition Casualty Report Grossly Underestimates Watchdogs’ Toll
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US-Led Coalition Casualty Report Grossly Underestimates Watchdogs’ Toll

Monday 3 September 2018 ،
The so-called anti-ISIS coalition in Syria and Iraq published a casualty report on August 30, putting civilian death toll from the US-led coalition’s airstrikes in Syria and Iraq since 2014 at 1,061. Alwaght- The so-called anti-ISIS coalition in Syria and Iraq published a casualty report on Aug ...
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US Airstrikes in Raqqa Killed ’Many More Civilians Than It Did ISIS’: Report
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US Airstrikes in Raqqa Killed ’Many More Civilians Than It Did ISIS’: Report

Monday 12 November 2018 ،
Airwars, an independent research group monitoring the anti-ISIS conflicts in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. was responsible for about 95 percent of the airstrikes and all of the artillery barrages in Raqqa. The U.K. and France also participated in the offensive. A view of a destroyed Raqqa neighborho ...
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US-Led Coalition Killed 1600 Syrian Civilians in Raqqa: Report
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US-Led Coalition Killed 1600 Syrian Civilians in Raqqa: Report

Sunday 28 April 2019 ،
Airwars declared in a joint statement on Thursday that Collating almost two years of investigations, it gives a brutally vivid account of more than 1,600 civilian lives lost as a direct result of thousands of US, UK and French air strikes and tens of thousands of US artillery strikes in the Coaliti ...
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Iraqi Children Born Near US Military Base Show Elevated Rates of ’Serious Congenital Deformities: Study
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Iraqi Children Born Near US Military Base Show Elevated Rates of ’Serious Congenital Deformities: Study

Sunday 1 December 2019 ،
More than decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found that babies are being born today with gruesome birth defects connected to the ongoing American military presence there. More than decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found th ...
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US Airstrikes Killed Civilians in Somalia: Amnesty International
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US Airstrikes Killed Civilians in Somalia: Amnesty International

Wednesday 1 April 2020 ،
Airwars, a UK-based monitor, with 43 involving allegations of civilian casualties, around half of which the group has deemed credible. There have been many ambiguities surrounding such airstrikes and bombardments in the rural regions of Somalia, with human rights groups regularly complaining about ...
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US Should Take Action to ‘Limit’ Civilian Casualties in Syria, Iraq: RAND
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US Should Take Action to ‘Limit’ Civilian Casualties in Syria, Iraq: RAND

Sunday 14 February 2021 ،
Airwars, a British organization that tracks civilian death tolls from military conflicts, concerning the so-called Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR). The operation saw the US and scores of its allies rolling into the Arab countries -- without government permission in the case of Syria -- to supposed ...
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U.S. DIDN’T EXPECT MAJOR EXPLOSIONS WHEN AN ISIS BOMB FACTORY WAS BOMBED
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U.S. DIDN’T EXPECT MAJOR EXPLOSIONS WHEN AN ISIS BOMB FACTORY WAS BOMBED

Saturday 9 April 2022 ،
Airwars reported that a Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs email from June 2015 noted an estimate of “probably more than 18,060 kilos of explosives stored, making this the largest ISIS IED factory ever.” Last year, when the U.S. Navy detonated roughly the same amount of explosives — ...
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Israeli Strikes Accounted for 55% of Worldwide Civilian Casualties in 2024
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Israeli Strikes Accounted for 55% of Worldwide Civilian Casualties in 2024

Tuesday 14 January 2025 ،
Airwars detailed the extraordinary civilian toll of Israel’s military actions in Gaza in late 2023, labeling it the most destructive conflict of the 21st century. In just 25 days, over 5,100 civilians were killed, including 1,900 children, with Palestinian families suffering devastating losses ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution