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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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US Senate Blocks Key Witnesses from Testifying in Trump’s Impeachment Trial

US Senate Blocks Key Witnesses from Testifying in Trump’s Impeachment Trial

Wednesday 22 January 2020
Davos, Switzerland, President Trump fired out 50 retweets of support for his cause overnight while insisting he was “making great progress” at the global summit.
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Zarif Says Europe Submission on Iran Deal Only Whetted Trump’s Appetite

Zarif Says Europe Submission on Iran Deal Only Whetted Trump’s Appetite

Wednesday 22 January 2020 ،
Davos on Tuesday if trade negotiations did not go his way. Zarif said he had already warned the Europeans of such US measures in an earlier tweet. Trump’s new threat came days after the three European signatories to nuclear accord — France, Britain and Germany — gave into Wa ...
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US Regime Threatens to Assassinate New Commander if Iran’s Elite Quds Force

US Regime Threatens to Assassinate New Commander if Iran’s Elite Quds Force

Thursday 23 January 2020 ،
Davos, Switzerland. “This isn’t a new threat. The [US] president, [Donald Trump], has always said that he will always respond decisively to protect American interests,” Hook said. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed Qaani as the new head of th ...
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Iraqis to Hold Million-Man March on Friday to Protest US Military Presence

Iraqis to Hold Million-Man March on Friday to Protest US Military Presence

Thursday 23 January 2020 ،
Davos, Switzerland, sparking condemnations from different Iraqi factions.  Kata'ib Hezbollah spokesman told Al Jazeera that the group considered the Salih-Trump meeting deeply humiliating and inconsiderate of the loss of Iraqi blood. Trump has committed unforgivable crimes against th ...
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Premier Modi Boasts Indian Army Can ‘Make Pakistan Bite Dust’ in 10 Days

Premier Modi Boasts Indian Army Can ‘Make Pakistan Bite Dust’ in 10 Days

Wednesday 29 January 2020 ،
Davos, Switzerland last week, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that in terms of open warfare, the rivals are “not close to a conflict right now.” He called on the international community to do more to prevent the current tensions from getting worse. The closest India a ...
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Chinese Warns US of Possible ’Military Conflict’ over Taipei

Chinese Warns US of Possible ’Military Conflict’ over Taipei

Saturday 29 January 2022 ،
Davos World Economic Forum on January 17, Xi insisted that countries must abandon Cold War mentality and seek peaceful coexistence and win-win outcomes. Our world today is far from the tranquil, rhetoric that stokes hatred and prejudice abound, Xi declared after warning against all forms of unilate ...
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Ukraine Rebuked NATO for ‘Doing Nothing’ about Russian Invasion

Ukraine Rebuked NATO for ‘Doing Nothing’ about Russian Invasion

Thursday 26 May 2022 ،
Davos on Wednesday, while praising the EU for its “revolutionary, groundbreaking decisions, which even they themselves did not expect to make.” When Moscow began its “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, there was a widespread sense among Ukrainians that it ...
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Richest 1% Bag Two-Thirds of $42 Trillion in New Wealth: Oxfam

Richest 1% Bag Two-Thirds of $42 Trillion in New Wealth: Oxfam

Monday 16 January 2023 ،
Davos, Switzerland. The world’s top 1 percent grabbed nearly two-thirds of the $42 trillion in new wealth created since 2020, Oxfam says in a new report released to coincide with the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The share was almost twice as much money as ...
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Gaza War Takes Its Toll on Erdogan

Gaza War Takes Its Toll on Erdogan

Tuesday 31 October 2023 ،
Davos Economic Summit in 2009, in response to the killing of the people of Gaza in the 22-day war, Erdogan severely criticized Shimon Peres, then Israeli president, and left the press conference in defense of the Palestinian people. In 2010, Turkey expelled Tel Aviv’s ambassador after Israeli ...
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The world in an era of turmoil and upheaval

The world in an era of turmoil and upheaval

Tuesday 13 February 2024 ،
Davos World Economic Forum, this scenario during a period of power transition poses the most perilous form of risk. Furthermore, there have been other wars with horrifying human consequences and significant geopolitical ramifications in recent decades, ranging from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Balka ...

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