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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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Bahrain Crisis: All Repression, No Toleration Make Things Worse
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Bahrain Crisis: All Repression, No Toleration Make Things Worse

Tuesday 23 January 2018
Citizenship and military court trials: flagrant violation of international law The most significant international document on the statelessness is a United Nations convention passed in 1961, formally known as Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The most related items are the articles 8 an ...
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Consequences of Knesset’s Jewish State-Nation Law
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Consequences of Knesset’s Jewish State-Nation Law

Sunday 22 July 2018 ،
The Israeli parliament passes a law seen by many as symbolizing an apartheid regime. Alwaght- As the time goes by, the US-sponsored “deal of the century” puzzle goes towards completion. The pieces are being put in their places, exhibiting how dangerous the anti-Palestinian plot is. The ...
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PM Modi Becoming Netanyahu of India
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PM Modi Becoming Netanyahu of India

Saturday 14 December 2019 ،
Citizenship (Amendment) law was passed by the Indian parliament earlier this week. The new citizenship law lays out a path of Indian citizenship for six minority religious groups from neighboring Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, but it does not extend the same rights to Muslim migrants. Indi ...
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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 ،
Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). The government later signed the bill into law. The law allows granting citizenship to millions of migrants, who came into India — legally or illegally — from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan before 31 December 2014, but not if they are Muslim. In th ...
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Protesters Vandalize Railway Stations in India’s West Bengal, Angry over Citizenship Bill
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Protesters Vandalize Railway Stations in India’s West Bengal, Angry over Citizenship Bill

Monday 16 December 2019 ،
Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), with protesters vandalizing and setting fire on train stations. Alwaght- Indian state of West Bengal has witnessed violent protests for the second consecutive day in the wake of provocative Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), with protesters vandalizing and setting fi ...
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European MPs Slam India over Citizenship Law, Kashmir
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European MPs Slam India over Citizenship Law, Kashmir

Tuesday 28 January 2020 ،
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as discriminatory and dangerously divisive as well as a violation of India’s international obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The European lawmakers blamed the Indian government for discriminating, harassing, and prosecu ...
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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 ،
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Registration Council (NRC) laws. Much of India’s capital Delhi resembles a warzone, as huge communal riots targeting the city’s Muslim population engulfed it today. Mosques were set ablaze, with at least 27 people killed and hundreds more take ...
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Attacks, Threats Target French Mosques, Muslims amid Rising Islamophobia
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Attacks, Threats Target French Mosques, Muslims amid Rising Islamophobia

Monday 12 April 2021 ،
Citizenship Minister Marlene Schiappa to take action against the hate campaign against her and “all Muslims living in France.”  She later further insisted that the media were “complacent” in the toxic climate, which stigmatizes the Muslim community. Lazz ...
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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 ،
Amendment Act excluded Muslim refugees from citizenship. Arundhati Roy wrote that Modi was enacting “India’s version of Germany’s 1935 Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews and other minorities of their citizenship rights”. There is no doubt that India under Modi has embarked ...

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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