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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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Pakistan Plays Dual Role in Combating Terrorism
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Pakistan Plays Dual Role in Combating Terrorism

Saturday 15 August 2015
Alwaght- Undoubtedly, the Taliban phenomenon is one of the complicated puzzles that still remains unresolved in the field of political and regional security. As the emergence of the Taliban has had many complicated dimensions, and after more than two decades since the formation of such a phenomenon, ...
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Civil War Likely in Tajikistan; Part One
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Civil War Likely in Tajikistan; Part One

Monday 28 September 2015 ،
Alwaght- West Asia events are developing so fast that not only make impacts on neighboring regions such as the Central Asia but also they make the political observers and analysts fully confused. The emergence of the ISIS terrorist group with a joint Western-Arabic design, beside the Turkey’s negati ...
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Iran Says  US Must Stop Training Terrorists in Syria
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Iran Says US Must Stop Training Terrorists in Syria

Wednesday 28 October 2015 ،
Alwaght- Iran says the US must stop its policy of training terrorists in Syria for a political solution to be found in the war-torn Arab country. Alwaght- Iran says the US must stop its policy of training terrorists in Syria for a political solution to be found in the war-torn Arab country. In a st ...
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West Used by Zionist Interests in Destruction of Iraq, Syria, Libya: American Pundit
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West Used by Zionist Interests in Destruction of Iraq, Syria, Libya: American Pundit

Sunday 2 October 2016 ،
Alwaght- Mainly Muslim Populated West and Central Asian regions, Particularly Iraq, Syria and Iraq, have been gripped by terrorism and extremism that has claimed lives of millions of people. Regarding the fact that most of the fundamentalist terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS, a ...
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Is Pakistan Losing Sway Over Taliban?
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Is Pakistan Losing Sway Over Taliban?

Saturday 5 November 2016 ،
Alwaght- The Pakistani officials have recently warned the leaders of Taliban that the militant group must inform Islamabad of its contacts with Afghanistan for peace process or its members and their families will be expelled out of the Pakistani territories. This sharp warning to the Taliban comes a ...

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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