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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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Bahraini People Hold Protests  amid US FM Visit
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Bahraini People Hold Protests amid US FM Visit

Friday 25 January 2019
Rajab In another development on Friday, Bahrain dismissed a UN call to release human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. Bahrain's General Directorate of Anti-Corruption and Economic and Electronic Crimes said in a statement that the campaigner is serving a five-year sentence for fals ...
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Iran Leader Calls for ‘Jump in Production’ as Country Rings in New Year
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Iran Leader Calls for ‘Jump in Production’ as Country Rings in New Year

Friday 20 March 2020 ،
Rajab.  You should only go to the door of the Divine House, if you go to any other house you will return disappointed, if you stretch out your hand to anything other than God, you will return empty-handed.  All causes in existence are Divine causes – He is the Cause of causes. Y ...
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Bahrain Political Prisoners Struggle With Coronavirus Risks As They’re Denied Freedom
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Bahrain Political Prisoners Struggle With Coronavirus Risks As They’re Denied Freedom

Friday 24 April 2020 ،
Rajab, and Naji Fatil are among the political prisoners whom the Amnesty International called for their immediate and unconditional release from prison.  Ahmad al-Wadee, the director of London-based Bahrain Center for Human Rights, is among those over the past few days warned against the situa ...
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Disabled Iranian Youth among World’s 10 Outstanding Young Persons
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Disabled Iranian Youth among World’s 10 Outstanding Young Persons

Friday 3 July 2020 ،
Rajabloo, who is diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), was tapped by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) to receive the honor due to his outstanding contribution to independent performance by the people with disabilities. Rajabloo was born into a middle-class family that was ev ...
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Bahrain, The Country of Torture And Execution
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Bahrain, The Country of Torture And Execution

Tuesday 14 July 2020 ،
Rajab, a leading pro-rights figure in Bahrain, are among the political prisoners.  Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi, the deputy leader of Al-Wifaq, in a Twitter post said that the death sentences in Bahrain go against the public demands. Despite this fact, long-term prison rulings are still being issue ...
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As 10th Anniversary Nears, Bahrainis Take To Streets Calling For Democracy, Prisoners Release
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As 10th Anniversary Nears, Bahrainis Take To Streets Calling For Democracy, Prisoners Release

Saturday 2 January 2021 ،
Rajab are eminent political prisoners. Al-Khalifa regime also stripped off citizenship of the spiritual leader of Bahraini Shiites Sheikh Issa Qassem and thus forced him out of the country.  Rights groups specially warned about the health of elderly and ill political prisoners including Mushai ...
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Bahraini Regime Frees Some Inmates Prison after Coronavirus Surge
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Bahraini Regime Frees Some Inmates Prison after Coronavirus Surge

Sunday 11 April 2021 ،
Rajab, was among those freed after spending 10 years in prison. The released inmates will carry out the rest of their sentences under electronic monitoring. Bahrain's health ministry claimed that only three prisoners had contracted the coronavirus at the Faw jail and that the vaccination campa ...
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Roadside Bombs Detonated near US Military Trucks across Iraq
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Roadside Bombs Detonated near US Military Trucks across Iraq

Tuesday 11 January 2022 ،
Rajab area at 7:30 a.m. local time (04:30 GMT) on Tuesday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.  Shortly afterward, a bomb attack targeted a logistics convoy of US forces in the town of Adwaniyah. Iraqi resistance group Ulul al-‘Azm later claimed ...
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Millions of Pilgrims March toward Iraq’s Kadhimiya, Mark Martyrdom Anniversary of 7th Shiite Imam
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Millions of Pilgrims March toward Iraq’s Kadhimiya, Mark Martyrdom Anniversary of 7th Shiite Imam

Sunday 27 February 2022 ،
Rajab in the lunar Hijri calendar (February 25 this year) marks the anniversary of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim’s martyrdom, the seventh of 12 revered Imams in Shia Islam who was martyred in 799 AD. A high number of Iraqi security forces were deployed to protect the pilgrims who have been walking fo ...
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Saudi Regime Arrests Activists, Critics in Shiite-Populated Eastern Province: Media
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Saudi Regime Arrests Activists, Critics in Shiite-Populated Eastern Province: Media

Tuesday 5 July 2022 ،
Rajab and Hussein al-Mutawa, and social media activist Musa Ali al-Khunaizi. According to the opposition sources, the common criterion in the arrests is that those detained used to publish posts critical of bin Salman’s policies and those of the House of Saud on social media platforms. The s ...

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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.