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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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America’s UN Envoy’s Motorcade Kills Cameroonian Boy
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America’s UN Envoy’s Motorcade Kills Cameroonian Boy

Tuesday 19 April 2016
Cameroon. Alwaght- An armored jeep in motorcade of America’s UN ambassador struck and killed a young child as Samantha Power was visiting Cameroon. The incident occurred near the small city of Mokolo, in northern Cameroon, where US envoy, her aides and accompanying journalists were headed to ...
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Nigeria, Chad Lunch Joint Op to Retake Boko Hram-Held Areas
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Nigeria, Chad Lunch Joint Op to Retake Boko Hram-Held Areas

Wednesday 22 June 2016 ،
Cameroon. The repeated attacks by Boko Haram have growing humanitarian consequences for countries of the Lake Chad Basin area as over nine million displaced people now need assistance; therefore regional countries have created a joint military force that plays a key role in helping Nigeria fight th ...
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Boko Haram; How Muslims of Nigeria View it?
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Boko Haram; How Muslims of Nigeria View it?

Sunday 14 August 2016 ،
Cameroon. Initially, Boko Haram had bonds with Al-Qaeda terrorist group but in 2015 it pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS terrorist group, and rebranded to Islamic State's West Africa Province. The Sharia law has been implemented in northern Nigeria since 2000, howeve ...
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UK MPs Slam 2011 Intervention in Libya
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UK MPs Slam 2011 Intervention in Libya

Wednesday 14 September 2016 ،
Cameroon, former English prime minister to join the US in an attack against Libyan dictator. Those criticisms were largely similar to the ones cited against Tony Blair’s decision to go to war in Iraq and so the results are similar to the conclusion by the Iraq was investigation. The report al ...
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55 Killed, Hundreds Injured in Cameroon Train Accident
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55 Killed, Hundreds Injured in Cameroon Train Accident

Saturday 22 October 2016 ،
Cameroon killing at least 55 people on Friday Alwaght- A passenger train derailed in Cameroon killing at least 55 people on Friday. The accident happened as the train approached the Eseka city, 120 kilometers south of the capital Younde. Another 575 people were also injured in the accident that ha ...
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Role of Terrorism in Defining US Global Interests
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Role of Terrorism in Defining US Global Interests

Sunday 11 December 2016 ،
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, and the Persian Gulf Arab states. But, increase of its military personnel and equipment in these regions failed to yield practical outcomes. For example, according to a White House report recently issued, the US deployed a number of i ...
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Nigeria on Verge of Famine as WFP Runs out of Funding
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Nigeria on Verge of Famine as WFP Runs out of Funding

Saturday 15 April 2017 ،
Cameroon and Chad - and $457 million had been pledged for 2017 by late February. Despite the Nigerian army saying the insurgency is on the run, large parts of the country's northeast, particularly in Borno state, remain under threat from Boko Haram. Suicide bombings and gun attacks have increas ...
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5 Teenage Girls Launch Suicide Attacks in Nigeria
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5 Teenage Girls Launch Suicide Attacks in Nigeria

Friday 5 May 2017 ،
Cameroon as well.  
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14 Killed, 30 Injured after Terrorist Attack in Cameron
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14 Killed, 30 Injured after Terrorist Attack in Cameron

Thursday 13 July 2017 ،
Cameroon after two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Wednesday evening, security sources said suggesting that the deadly attack was likely carried out by Boko Haram terrorists. Alwaght- At least 14 were killed were killed and over 30 were injured in northeastern Cameroon after two suicide bomber ...
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Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 18 People in Nigeria Displaced Civilians Camp
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Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 18 People in Nigeria Displaced Civilians Camp

Saturday 2 September 2017 ،
Cameroon which houses 45,000 internally displaced people (IDP). At around 12:30 am (2330 GMT Thursday) this morning some Boko Haram terrorists broke the barricade securing the IDP camp from the rear towards the Cameroon border and entered to seize food from IDPs, a senior military officer in the to ...

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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