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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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Turkey Seeks for a Firm Foothold in Central Asia
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Turkey Seeks for a Firm Foothold in Central Asia

Sunday 3 May 2015
European parliament verdict on considering the Armenians’ killing in 1915 as genocide and calling on Turkey to recognize it. During this visit, the mosque and complex of “Khawaja Ahmad Yasavi”, constructed by Turkey’s religious and endowments affairs organization, was inaugurated. A joint statement ...
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Israeli Regime Weapons Killing Masses in African Conflicts: Report
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Israeli Regime Weapons Killing Masses in African Conflicts: Report

Sunday 20 September 2015 ،
European countries avoid arming directly. In South Sudan, the magnitude of atrocities compelled the European Union to impose an arms embargo on the country. The US claims  to have imposed sanctions on the newly independent war-torn East African state but the Obama measures was actively in the ...
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French Labor Protests Dim Hollande’s Re-Election Chances
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French Labor Protests Dim Hollande’s Re-Election Chances

Friday 17 June 2016 ،
European Soccer Championship, that kicked off on June 10 that is expected to bring nearly w million visitors to France would lift some of the malaise gripping the country. However, things seem to have gotten worse following incidents of traditional by English and Russian fans. On June 15, UEFA, the ...
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Motives of Turkey’s  Perplexing Foreign Policy under Erdogan
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Motives of Turkey’s Perplexing Foreign Policy under Erdogan

Monday 5 December 2016 ،
European Union was also last month on the receiving end of Erdogan’s ever-changing stances of Erdogan after the Turkish president threatened to release a flood of migrants into Europe contrary to the agreement between the two sides. Erdogan is projecting himself as the regional kingpin to atta ...
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Syria Reconstruction: When Destructive Hands Bid for Rebuilding
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Syria Reconstruction: When Destructive Hands Bid for Rebuilding

Friday 16 December 2016 ،
European Union. They said that the will help Syria to be rebuilt provided that Moscow and Damascus guarantee a place for the armed rebels in the country's future. They maintained that they will not spend any penny on a “false peace” and will take no step to serve the Russian interest ...
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What US Aims Drive New Anti-Russian Sanctions?
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What US Aims Drive New Anti-Russian Sanctions?

Tuesday 28 March 2017 ،
European sanctions that were imposed on Russian due to the Ukraine crisis will be lifted because of the personal will displayed by both Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia to expand contacts for wider partnership. But things did not go as the predictions saw, and on March 24 in a surprise ...
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Iranian Airline Strikes Deal with Boeing for 30 Planes Worth of $3B
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Iranian Airline Strikes Deal with Boeing for 30 Planes Worth of $3B

Tuesday 4 April 2017 ،
European manufacturer Airbus. Those aircraft are expected to begin arriving next month.
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Turkish President Family Own $30m Oil Tanker Bought under Offshore Arrangement
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Turkish President Family Own $30m Oil Tanker Bought under Offshore Arrangement

Saturday 27 May 2017 ،
European news outlets reported on Friday. Alwaght-Turkish President's family reportedly own a multi-million dollar oil tanker, which was acquired under a secretive offshore arrangement, a consortium of European news outlets reported on Friday. European Investigative Collaboration (EIC), a coope ...
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Turkey’s Scramble for Africa: Ankara Eyes New Empire in Old Backyard
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Turkey’s Scramble for Africa: Ankara Eyes New Empire in Old Backyard

Monday 7 August 2017 ،
Europeans stepped in. Turkey's gateway For Turkey, Somalia remains its main gateway to Africa. Ankara has been active militarily in Somalia since 2009, when it joined the multinational counter-piracy task force off the Somali coast. That was the stepping stone for Turkey to seek a bilateral ...
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Energy Dispute New Face of Turkey’s Rifts with Neighbors
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Energy Dispute New Face of Turkey’s Rifts with Neighbors

Tuesday 6 March 2018 ،
European and American companies, in the region. Eni, a multinational oil and gas company, on February 23 announced that it was moving to Morocco a drilling ship and other facilities from Cyprus after it faced repeated warnings from the Turkish navy’s warships and its drilling vessel was encir ...

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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