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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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Top Saudi Prince Released after Paying Over $1 Billion
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Top Saudi Prince Released after Paying Over $1 Billion

Wednesday 29 November 2017
Bandar bin Sultan, a former Saudi ambassador to Washington and confidant of former US president George W Bush. The purge, which follows an earlier roundup of Muslim clerics, writers, economists and public figures, is creating panic in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, particularly among those associated w ...
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Saudi King Sacks Foreign Minister in Reshuffle
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Saudi King Sacks Foreign Minister in Reshuffle

Thursday 27 December 2018 ،
Bandar bin Abdulaziz was appointed minister of the Saudi National Guard; Hamad al-Sheikh was made education minister; and Turki al-Shabanah was given the information portfolio. Thursday's decree also called for the establishment of the oil-rich kingdom's first government agency devoted to s ...
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Saudi Crown Prince Stripped of Some Authority
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Saudi Crown Prince Stripped of Some Authority

Monday 18 March 2019 ،
Bandar bin Sultan to serve as Saudi ambassador to the US, and the promotion of Prince Mohammed’s brother, Khalid bin Salman, to the ministry of defence, were allegedly announced without the king’s approval or knowledge. The decrees to make the changes were signed by the crown prince in ...
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Saudi Expanding Intel. Network From Asia To Europe
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Saudi Expanding Intel. Network From Asia To Europe

Sunday 9 February 2020 ،
Bandar bin Sultan, the former Saudi ambassador to Washington, as new GIP chief in 2012 came to strengthen the data sharing between the Saudi spying body and the CIA in the Syrian and regional developments. Since then, the GIP’s approach went more complicated and violent. The Guardian disclose ...
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US Senators Press Saudi Arabia to Put Oil Cut in Motion
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US Senators Press Saudi Arabia to Put Oil Cut in Motion

Sunday 12 April 2020 ،
Bandar bin Sultan. Sullivan, of Alaska, applauded Saudi Arabia’s taking part in the agreement to cut output, but said “actions speak louder than words.” “The Kingdom needs to take sustainable, concrete actions to significantly cut oil production, and it needs to do so soon, ...
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Al-Suwaiq Port; Symbol of Northern-Southern Persian Gulf Cooperation
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Al-Suwaiq Port; Symbol of Northern-Southern Persian Gulf Cooperation

Saturday 9 May 2020 ،
Bandar Abbas officials negotiated with Al-Suwaiq officials the ways to augment the seal transit lines between the two countries. At the time, the Omani side vowed to provide the infrastructure necessary to expand the port capacity within 9 months.  Last month, the first Iranian ship carrying f ...
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Saudi Royal Rift over Normalization With Tel Aviv
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Saudi Royal Rift over Normalization With Tel Aviv

Wednesday 23 December 2020 ،
Bandar bin Sultan, 71, who was Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US for 23 years and then served as the national security advisor to the late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. His father Sultan bin Abdulaziz was one of the most powerful kings for half a century who served 48 years as defense ministe ...
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What’s Behind Bin Salman Growing Power Paranoia?
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What’s Behind Bin Salman Growing Power Paranoia?

Tuesday 4 May 2021 ،
Bandar, and Rakan are alive.  As bin Salman's feeling of fear and threat by the White House pressure on his father and also possible actions of the home opponents have already grown to the highest levels, his fear moves beyond his cousins to reach his own brothers. Detaining and Cracking do ...
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What’s Agenda of Iranian FM’s Persian Gulf Tour?
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What’s Agenda of Iranian FM’s Persian Gulf Tour?

Wednesday 21 June 2023 ،
Bandar Bin Mohammad Al Thani, and both sides discussed and stressed the need to develop trade exchanges between Iran and Qatar through increasing banking, financial, and monetary cooperation.  Eyes on Muscat; diplomacy in news silence  Amir-Abdollahian is now in Muscat, triggering s ...
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US Shifting to a Ground Plot as Naval Coalition Failed against Yemen’s Ansarullah
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US Shifting to a Ground Plot as Naval Coalition Failed against Yemen’s Ansarullah

Thursday 2 May 2024 ،
Bandar bin Abdulaziz, the commander of the Royal Saudi Air Force.  Quoting military sources in Sana'a, Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported that the US preparations are in progress for a large-scale air invasion of Yemen, with support of ground attacks of thousands of militia groups loyal to ...

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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.