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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, Turkey Know Where ISIS Leader Is: Syrian UN Envoy
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US, Turkey Know Where ISIS Leader Is: Syrian UN Envoy

Saturday 2 March 2019
Deir ez-Zor Province. ISIS started its campaign of terror in Iraq and Syria in 2014, occupying territory in the two Arab countries and establishing a self-proclaimed “caliphate.”   The Takfiri outfit was gradually stripped of all the land it had occupied, but ISIS remnan ...
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US-Led Coalition Uses Phosphorous Munitions in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor
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US-Led Coalition Uses Phosphorous Munitions in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor

Monday 4 March 2019 ،
Deir ez-Zor province. Alwaght- The US-led coalition reportedly has used white phosphorus munitions in Syria's Deir ez-Zor province. Syrian sources say the Sunday night’s airstrikes targeted the town of Baghuz, the last ISIS stronghold in the Arab country. The attacks came after the US-ba ...
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Syrian Warplanes Hit ISIS Positions in Badiya Desert
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Syrian Warplanes Hit ISIS Positions in Badiya Desert

Tuesday 5 March 2019 ،
Deir ez-Zor, west of the Euphrates River, Syria’s al-Watan newspaper reported. The Syrian Air Force mounted “a number of airstrikes targeting ISIS movements in the eastern Badiya, specifically on one of the dirt roads leading to the town of al-Sukhna and southeast of the town”, al ...
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US-Led Airstrike on Syrian Refugee Camp Kills 80 Civilians: Report
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US-Led Airstrike on Syrian Refugee Camp Kills 80 Civilians: Report

Monday 11 March 2019 ،
Deir-ez-Zor province, killing about 50 people. The strike comes after the Syrian Foreign Ministry reportedly blamed the US and the US-led coalition of crimes against humanity in connection with massive air strikes on the Syrian village of Baguz in February that killed dozens of civilians. The US-l ...
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Iraq Deploys Forces to Syrian Border to Block ISIS Terrorists’ Infiltration
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Iraq Deploys Forces to Syrian Border to Block ISIS Terrorists’ Infiltration

Tuesday 12 March 2019 ،
Deir ez-Zor as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are attacking their only remaining enclave in the war-torn country. The Iraqi Armed Forces are taking these precautionary measures because the battle for the ISIS' last enclave is coming to an end, and many terrorists will likely try to escape t ...
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ISIS Leader under US Army’s Control: Report
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ISIS Leader under US Army’s Control: Report

Tuesday 12 March 2019 ،
Deir Ez-Zor and declare the capture of al-Baghdadi and end of ISIL on footage. The source insisted that the time for the above-mentioned theater is close, adding that the American forces have held SDF back from further advances in the ISIS-occupied regions in Eastern Euphrates to play the scenario. ...
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How Likely Is ISIS Reorganization?
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How Likely Is ISIS Reorganization?

Wednesday 13 March 2019 ،
Deir ez-Zor province. The village is expected to be recaptured from the terrorists within days to put an end to the ISIS in Syria too. ISIS after Syria and Iraq For many, the ISIS fate after the defeat in Iraq and then Syria is a point of a major focus. Apparently, the current situation in the re ...
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Saudi Trouble-Making Mediation in Syria
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Saudi Trouble-Making Mediation in Syria

Monday 17 June 2019 ،
Deir ez-Zur and met with the US envoy to the Western military coalition in Syria William Robak, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Levant Affairs and Special Envoy for Syria Joel Rayburn, and a number of tribal leaders in the region. The key theme of the meeting, the news channel claimed, was offering s ...
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Voices from Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting
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Voices from Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting

Saturday 6 July 2019 ،
Deir-ez-Zor. The United Nations has been granted access to the shelters on three occasions and has found the situation there adequate. The United Nations continues to advocate and call for safe, sustained and unimpeded humanitarian assistance and access to Rukban as well as to all those in need thr ...
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Secret Israeli Unit Purging Documents Related to Regime’s History, Crimes: Paper
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Secret Israeli Unit Purging Documents Related to Regime’s History, Crimes: Paper

Saturday 6 July 2019 ،
Deir Yassin massacre, killing hundreds of villagers in a village populated by no more than 600 residents. According to the report, among other chilling revelations describing systematic killings, looting and abuse that were later concealed by Israeli authorities, was a document describing ...

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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.