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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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People Protest, Groups Condemn ’Repressive’ Climate as Bahrain Holds Election
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People Protest, Groups Condemn ’Repressive’ Climate as Bahrain Holds Election

Saturday 12 November 2022
Ali Abdulemam, a Britain-based Bahraini human rights activist, said. “Without the opposition we will not have a healthy country,” he told AFP. The restrictions have ignited calls for a boycott of Saturday's elections which come more than a decade after the 2011 popular uprising ...
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Bahrain’s Sham Election in Absence of People
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Bahrain’s Sham Election in Absence of People

Sunday 13 November 2022 ،
Ali Salman has been in prison serving life sentence. The government did the same thing to other political leaders, making the politics free of critics and opposition.  Bahrain has been in a real political repression since the government, assisted by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, repressed the prot ...
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With Democrats Surviving Midterms, Would Biden Seek Revenge on Bin Salman?
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With Democrats Surviving Midterms, Would Biden Seek Revenge on Bin Salman?

Tuesday 15 November 2022 ،
Salman. Alwaght- As the initial results give the Democrats a narrow survival in the House and a defeat in the Senate, they, and especially Biden, look satisfied with the outcome. While the Democrats expected a ‘red wave’ amid the drop in President Joe Biden's popularity rates, the sk ...
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Saudi Regime Re-arrest Prominent Shiite Cleric amid Crackdown
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Saudi Regime Re-arrest Prominent Shiite Cleric amid Crackdown

Saturday 3 December 2022 ،
Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most prominent Shia cleric, in the city. He had been arrested once in 2010 as well. Last month, Saudi security forces re-arrested distinguished Shia scholar Sheikh Muhammad al-Abbad in al-‘Umran city of al-Ahsa province without a warrant, and took him away to a ...
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Shadow of Crackdown and Execution Returns to Saudi Shiite Citizens
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Shadow of Crackdown and Execution Returns to Saudi Shiite Citizens

Monday 5 December 2022 ،
Ali al-Sistani in Medina. Al-Omari has been detained while the Saudi regime has stepped up crackdown on the civil activists in the shadow of Ukraine war and the West’s desperate need for the Saudi oil. The crackdown is also targeting some clerics, particularly those with more popularity and ac ...
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Is Erdogan-Assad Meeting Likely?
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Is Erdogan-Assad Meeting Likely?

Thursday 8 December 2022 ،
Salman as the murderer of the outspoken journalist Jamal Khashoggi or the UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed as the sworn enemy of the Turkish-aligned Muslim Brotherhood and the key supporter of the 2016 attempted military coup that sought to remove Erdogan, or Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the remover of the ...
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Afraid of Rejuvenated Yemeni Strikes, Saudis Rush for Mediation
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Afraid of Rejuvenated Yemeni Strikes, Saudis Rush for Mediation

Monday 26 December 2022 ،
Ali al-Houthi hinted at resumption of strikes on Saudi oil facilities, to zero its exports.  “Saudi Arabia constantly announces surplus in the budget. I advise it to reduce taxes in order to leave an opportunity for rest for citizens. In the event of renewed confrontations, the budget ma ...
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Bahraini Opposition Chief Sheikh Salman Victim to Al Khalifa’s Foreign Score-Settling
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Bahraini Opposition Chief Sheikh Salman Victim to Al Khalifa’s Foreign Score-Settling

Wednesday 4 January 2023 ،
Ali Salman, the head of Wefaq National Islamic Society, whom Al Khalifa thought would manage to subject to its autocracy, has not only shown no weakness after eight years of imprisonment but also pursued his anti-dictatorship struggle powerfully from the prison.  Sheikh Salman, who is sentence ...
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Fresh Revelations Picture Dreadful Bahraini Prison Conditions
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Fresh Revelations Picture Dreadful Bahraini Prison Conditions

Tuesday 24 January 2023 ،
Ali Salman, Wefaq’s chief, who was charged with espionage for foreign governments and betrayal of the country and handed a life sentence. Even Westerners did not believe this blackening campaign against the opposition by Bahraini rulers.  Since 2011, the people of Bahrain protested again ...
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An Overview of Five Rounds of Iranian-Saudi Talks
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An Overview of Five Rounds of Iranian-Saudi Talks

Wednesday 1 February 2023 ،
Ali Al Humaidan, the director general of General Intelligence Directorate. The Iranian delegation was 5-member headed by a high-ranking government official and representatives of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Quds Force, as well as the representative of foreign ministry. According t ...

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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.