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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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Devil You Know: Old Foes India, China Strengthen Ties as US Proves Too Unreliable
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Devil You Know: Old Foes India, China Strengthen Ties as US Proves Too Unreliable

Saturday 29 December 2018
Assam, again with a focus on bolstering its defenses against China. The project took almost two decades and $800 million for it to be completed. Allegedly, the bridge will allow the Indian military to speedily deploy its forces to Arunachal Pradesh, on the border of China, and has also been designed ...
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India Excludes Some 2 Million People from Assam Citizen List
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India Excludes Some 2 Million People from Assam Citizen List

Saturday 31 August 2019 ،
Assam state, raising fears they could be rendered stateless. Alwaght- Nearly two million people have been left off a list of citizens in India's northeastern Assam state, raising fears they could be rendered stateless. The list, known as the National Register of Citizens (NRC), was published on ...
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UN Pans India’s Citizenship Law as Discriminatory in Nature
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UN Pans India’s Citizenship Law as Discriminatory in Nature

Friday 13 December 2019 ،
Assam state on Thursday when police opened fire on mobs torching buildings and attacking railway stations in protest at new citizenship rules signed into law on Thursday. The new law lays out a path of Indian citizenship for six minority religious groups from neighboring Banglad ...
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6 Killed in Protests over Contentious Indian Citizenship Bill
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6 Killed in Protests over Contentious Indian Citizenship Bill

Sunday 15 December 2019 ،
Assam and Tripura states against a controversial citizenship law based on which citizenship could be given to immigrants from three neighboring countries but not if they are Muslim. Alwaght- At Least Six people were killed in violent protests in India Assam and Tripura states against a controversial ...
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India’s Main Opposition Party Holds Protest against Citizenship Law
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India’s Main Opposition Party Holds Protest against Citizenship Law

Monday 23 December 2019 ،
Assam. Undeterred, protesters have continued to rally throughout the country. The new law allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan a ...
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Dozens Dead as Hindu Mobs Launch Anti-Muslim Pogroms Amid Trump Visit to India
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Dozens Dead as Hindu Mobs Launch Anti-Muslim Pogroms Amid Trump Visit to India

Thursday 27 February 2020 ،
Assam, where 1.9 million people, most of the Muslims, have been declared illegal aliens. The government is building a network of huge detention centers, not unlike ICE facilities on the U.S.-Mexico border, to house the population. Last week Giriraj Singh, a minister in Modi’s cabinet, expresse ...
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As Saudi Forces Flee Northern Yemen, Evidence of an Unholy Alliance with Al-Qaeda Is Left Behind
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As Saudi Forces Flee Northern Yemen, Evidence of an Unholy Alliance with Al-Qaeda Is Left Behind

Saturday 25 April 2020 ،
Assamah, Why did you imprison me and my three daughters?” Samira is rumored to have been held in these same cells. Residents who participated in the fight against the Saudi-backed militants told us that the place was a women’s prison that “from outside it looked like simple houses ...
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Boris Johnson’s Disgraceful Silence on Indian PM’s Anti-Muslim Campaign
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Boris Johnson’s Disgraceful Silence on Indian PM’s Anti-Muslim Campaign

Sunday 24 April 2022 ،
Assam and Indian-administered Kashmir. Stanton, who warned about the Rwandan genocide three years before it happened in 1994, drew parallels between Modi’s policies and Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims ahead of the 2017 slaughter. The Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United State ...
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Is Al-Sadr Close to Ending Political Self-Isolation?
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Is Al-Sadr Close to Ending Political Self-Isolation?

Tuesday 16 May 2023 ،
Assam al-Assadi, a political analyst and a former member of Sadrist Movement, maintains that the government of al-Sudani intends to attract not only Sadists masses but also the whole street by implementing multiple service projects.  Another cause of al-Sadr’s concerns about internal div ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Assam, another Iraqi security expert, told Al-Hurra that Iraq has the power for effectively fighting ISIS and neutralizing its plots, especially that the various types of security services in this country have gained a lot of experience in fighting ISIS and dismantling its nuclei and are now adoptin ...

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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.