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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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Three Dead in Turkey's Southeastern Town as Islamists and Kurds Clash
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Three Dead in Turkey's Southeastern Town as Islamists and Kurds Clash

Sunday 28 December 2014
Cizre, near Turkey's border with Syria. At least three people died in these clashes that occurred two months after the clashes in which more than 36 people died, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Alwaght - Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s Hizbullah, Kurdish Islamists, have engaged in fres ...
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary
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Turkish Police and Kurds Clash on Ocalan’s Detention Anniversary

Tuesday 17 February 2015 ،
Cizre Botan, Sharnakh, and Midyat. Long live leader Ocalan, protesters chanted. The Turkish police detained 17 protesters, claiming that they participated in illegal protests. Protestors condemned what they called “the international conspiracy against the PKK’s leader”, demanding his release to faci ...
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Turkey Restores Curfew in Kurdish City of Cizre Amid Clashes
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Turkey Restores Curfew in Kurdish City of Cizre Amid Clashes

Monday 14 September 2015 ،
Cizre in its war on Kurdish militants. Alwaght- Turkey on Sunday re-imposed an open-ended curfew in the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Cizre in its war on Kurdish militants. The new open-ended curfew came into effect at 1600 GMT after thousands of Cizre locals turned out for the funerals of 16 ...
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Turkey Ratchets up Political Crackdown on Kurds

Turkey Ratchets up Political Crackdown on Kurds

Thursday 15 October 2015 ،
Cizre. The crackdown on the Kurds who have been dreaming of a Kurdish autonomous region within Turkey similar to the one in Iraq has been interweaved with foreign-backed plots to legitimize Ankara's actions. Turkey's latest move, that is, summoning and warning the US and Russian ambassador ...
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Turkey on Brink of Civil War as Troops Kill 70 Kurdish Fighters
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Turkey on Brink of Civil War as Troops Kill 70 Kurdish Fighters

Sunday 20 December 2015 ،
Cizre and another died in clashes in Sur district in the city of Diyarbakir. Most of the Kurdish militants killed were in the towns of Cizre and Silopi, which have predominantly Kurdish populations. The towns are being targeted in intensified military  operations by the Turkish regime which h ...
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Turkey Military Killed 205 Members of Kurdistan Workers' Party over 10 Days
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Turkey Military Killed 205 Members of Kurdistan Workers' Party over 10 Days

Sunday 27 December 2015 ،
Cizre district of Sirnak province, and 33 in Sur district of Diyarbakir province, the Turkish official news agency reported. Turkey’s warplanes and artillery launched attacks the camps of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in the country’s southeast early on October, marking the military’s first signific ...
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12 PKK Fighters, 3 Turkish Army Forces Killed in Clashes in Country's Southeast
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12 PKK Fighters, 3 Turkish Army Forces Killed in Clashes in Country's Southeast

Saturday 2 January 2016 ،
Cizre, a town close to the Syrian border in Sirnak province, a soldier was killed and four others injured in a rocket attack, the Turkish General Staff said in a statement. The soldier passed away in hospital, the statement said. The four injured troops are not in a critical condition and are recei ...
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Erdogan, Mystery of Kurdish Conflict Settlement
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Erdogan, Mystery of Kurdish Conflict Settlement

Tuesday 5 January 2016 ،
Cizre. Since the beginning of December 2015, a state of emergency has been announced in Turkey’s southern and eastern cities, and in the current time street clashes of the Turkish army and police with the Kurdish fighters are underway. The Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H), the Ku ...

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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