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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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Embassies Shutdown in Yemen, Hasty but Purposeful
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Embassies Shutdown in Yemen, Hasty but Purposeful

Sunday 15 February 2015
Alwaght- The US, Britain, France, Italy, UAE, Japan, Turkey, Spain, and Germany have temporarily closed their embassies in Yemen over what they called security concerns in the Arab country, after the Ansarullah revolutionaries took control of the capital, Sana’a.The Western states have also urged th ...
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Bahraini Regime Weighs up Talks with Revolutionaries
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Bahraini Regime Weighs up Talks with Revolutionaries

Monday 16 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- Al Khalifa regime, reportedly, once again came to the conclusion that it should embark on another round of negotiations with revolutionaries. Alwaght- Al Khalifa regime, reportedly, once again came to the conclusion that it should embark on another round of negotiations with revolutionaries ...
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary

Tuesday 17 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- February 15th marks the anniversary of the Kurdish oposition leader Abdullah Ocalan detention. Ocalan, who founded the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK in1978, was captured on February 15 1999 while fleeing the Greek Embassy in Nairobi after a year-long international manhunt for him, in an opera ...
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Will Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi drag Egypt into the Libyan Swamp?
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Will Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi drag Egypt into the Libyan Swamp?

Tuesday 17 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- Egyptian authorities announced that Egypt has launched air strikes in Libya against ISIS's headquarters after the terrorist group released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. Alwaght- Egyptian authorities announced that Egypt has launched air strikes in Libya agains ...
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Netanyahu's Visit Sabotages US-Israeli Regime Relations
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Netanyahu's Visit Sabotages US-Israeli Regime Relations

Wednesday 18 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday regarding the visit of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli regime Prime Minister, to the US next month: "He is interfering in our internal affairs, and I don't want to interfere in Israeli internal ...
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ISIS is at Europe’s door, if not already In it

ISIS is at Europe’s door, if not already In it

Wednesday 18 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- The radical terror group ISIS has claimed that it is only a matter of time before its fighters conquer Europe. The journalist Juergen Todenhoefer has interviewed a German ISIS fighter in Mosul on December. Alwaght- The radical terror group ISIS has claimed that it is only a matter of time b ...
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American Strategies for Inter-Ukrainian Dispute
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American Strategies for Inter-Ukrainian Dispute

Saturday 21 February 2015 ،
Alwaght- The leaders of Russia (Vladimir Putin), Ukraine (Petro Poroshenko), France (Francois Hollande) and Germany (Angela Merkel) have reached a ceasefire deal after 17 hours of grueling, cut-and-thrust negotiations behind locked doors in the presidential place in Minsk, Belarus, on the Ukrainia ...
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US –Turkey agreement to Train and Equip “Moderate Syrian Opposition”
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US –Turkey agreement to Train and Equip “Moderate Syrian Opposition”

Saturday 21 February 2015 ،
Alwaght-The US State Department announced that the US administration and the Turkey government have reach an agreement “in principle” to train and equip, what the announcement called “moderate Syrian rebels”. “As we have announced before, Turkey has agreed to be one of the regional hosts for the tr ...
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The Return of Golan Heights to Syria: Countdown has started
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The Return of Golan Heights to Syria: Countdown has started

Tuesday 24 February 2015 ،
Alwaght-Israeli regime captured the Golan Heights during 1967 war, then unilaterally annexed the territory in 1981, a move that remains unrecognized by the international community and condemned by the UN. (Israel says it needs a presence in the Golan Heights to protect itself, arguing that UN Resolu ...
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CIA and Apple Smart Phones
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CIA and Apple Smart Phones

Wednesday 11 March 2015 ،
Apple devices, The Intercept reports, citing top-secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden, as Russia Today reported. Alwaght-Researchers working for the CIA were involved in a “multi-year, sustained effort” to crack security measures and undermine encryption on Apple devices, The Intercept report ...

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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