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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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Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi Complicit in Myanmarese Regime’s ’Ethnic Cleansing’ against Rohingya
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Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi Complicit in Myanmarese Regime’s ’Ethnic Cleansing’ against Rohingya

Wednesday 15 November 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi is implicated in the “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, UK MPs heard on Tuesday. Giving evidence before a parliamentary committee, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Burma Campaign UK and other rights groups urged the government and the inte ...
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Will Pope Mention Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar Visit?
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Will Pope Mention Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar Visit?

Thursday 23 November 2017 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi. The trip motto is peace and love among people of different faiths. Being the first pope to visit Myanmar, Francis is expected to address the Rohingyas' plight as he already issued a strong defense of the right of the Muslim minority to ‘live their faith’, and crit ...
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Bangladesh, Myanmar Agree to Repatriate over 600,000 Rohingya Refugees in 2 Months
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Bangladesh, Myanmar Agree to Repatriate over 600,000 Rohingya Refugees in 2 Months

Thursday 23 November 2017 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi, however, said that the deal followed a formula set in a 1992 repatriation agreement inked by the two nations following an earlier surge of violence. Under that pact, Rohingya Muslims were required to provide residency documents, which few had, before being allowed to return to Myan ...
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Rohingyas Fleeing Myanmar in Thousands: UN
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Rohingyas Fleeing Myanmar in Thousands: UN

Thursday 7 December 2017 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi, has said the Rohingya who can prove they were resident in Myanmar would be accepted back. Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, has so far done almost nothing to end the violence in Rakhine despite increasing pressure from the international community. Suu Kyi’s of ...
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Myanmarese Army’s Rape of Rohingya Women Methodical, Sweeping: Report
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Myanmarese Army’s Rape of Rohingya Women Methodical, Sweeping: Report

Monday 11 December 2017 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi admitted previously that her country’s armed forces used rape as a weapon to intimidate ethnic nationalities. Suu kyi, who has come under global scrutiny for backing the ethnic cleansing campaign, made the remarks in a videotaped statement to the Nobel Women’s Initiative ...
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Myanmar Leaders Could Face Genocide Charges against Muslims: UN
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Myanmar Leaders Could Face Genocide Charges against Muslims: UN

Monday 18 December 2017 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to stop the military atrocities. Zeid has already called the campaign “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and asked rhetorically if anyone could rule out “elements of genocide”, but his latest remarks put the case plainly, toughening his stan ...
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Amnesty Urges Probe after Myanmar’s Army Admits Killing Muslims
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Amnesty Urges Probe after Myanmar’s Army Admits Killing Muslims

Thursday 11 January 2018 ،
Aung Hlaing, the military's commander in chief, said soldiers and villagers had confessed to killing 10 Muslims on September 2. James Gomez, Amnesty's regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, called the admission a positive development, but said it was only the tip of the icebe ...
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UN Chief Expresses Concern over Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees
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UN Chief Expresses Concern over Repatriation of Rohingya Refugees

Thursday 18 January 2018 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to stop the military atrocities. Zeid has already called the campaign “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” and asked rhetorically if anyone could rule out “elements of genocide”.  
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Myanmar Still Unsafe for Muslim Refugees’ Repatriation: UN
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Myanmar Still Unsafe for Muslim Refugees’ Repatriation: UN

Thursday 25 January 2018 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi. He said the panel was a whitewash and accused Suu Kyi of lacking moral leadership. She blames all the problems that Myanmar is having on the international media, on the UN, on human rights groups, on other governments, and I think this is caused by the bubble that is around her, ...
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India Latest Party to Take on China in Southeast Asia, Sea
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India Latest Party to Take on China in Southeast Asia, Sea

Thursday 1 February 2018 ،
Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and highlighted the commonalities in culture and interests between India and the ASEAN states. Accentuation of the common interests is one of the approaches adopted by the Indian leaders ...

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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