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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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Evacuating Incirlik Airbase Could Mark End To US-Turkey Alliance
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Evacuating Incirlik Airbase Could Mark End To US-Turkey Alliance

Saturday 19 September 2020
F-35 fighter jets. When the efforts to dissuade Turkey went nowhere, the US kicked Turkey out of the F-35 program. Turkey was part of the massive supply chain of the stealth fighter. Another response was blocking the scheduled delivery of the jets to Ankara. Additionally, Congress in late 2019 impos ...
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US Arms Sale to UAE Could Make It Complicit in War Crimes in Yemen: Group
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US Arms Sale to UAE Could Make It Complicit in War Crimes in Yemen: Group

Tuesday 10 November 2020 ،
F-35 stealth fighter jets to the UAE, in a sale that could amount to $10 billion.    “These US drones could be responsible for UAE attacks that violate international humanitarian law and kill, as well as injure, thousands of Yemeni civilians already bearing the brunt of the one ...
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What Challenges Would Erdogan Have With Biden Govt.?
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What Challenges Would Erdogan Have With Biden Govt.?

Wednesday 18 November 2020 ،
F-35 fighter jet program are not applied yet. Turkey is a party to a massive supply chain of the parts of the stealth fighter and one of its buyers.  Under Biden, the US may depart from verbal threats concerning the S-400 deal and resort to some actions like implementation on the ground of Tru ...
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Turkey to Continue Talks with Russia on 2nd Batch of S-400 Air Defense Systems: Erdogan
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Turkey to Continue Talks with Russia on 2nd Batch of S-400 Air Defense Systems: Erdogan

Saturday 16 January 2021 ،
F-35 fighter jet program on July 15 last year, after the latter purchased Russian S-400 missile defense system in a move that also triggered US sanctions. Turkey paid “a massive amount of money’’ for the F-35 stealth jets, Erdogan said, adding that “this is a very serious mi ...
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Why Was Netanyahu’s UAE Visit Postponed Several Times?
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Why Was Netanyahu’s UAE Visit Postponed Several Times?

Friday 5 February 2021 ،
F-35 fighter jets and Trump, in his last action and the last hours of presence in the White House, signed a contract to deliver the stealth fighters to the UAE. But less than 10 days after his inauguration, the new President Joe Biden, to Abu Dhabi’s frustration, froze the contract, a move mea ...
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No Change in US Policy of ‘Blackmail, Sanctions’ under Biden: Russian Diplomat
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No Change in US Policy of ‘Blackmail, Sanctions’ under Biden: Russian Diplomat

Tuesday 6 April 2021 ،
F-35 stealth fighter jets, which were to be jointly produced in Turkey. That production was canceled by the White House over Ankara’s purchase of the Russian-made air defense systems. Ankara has gone ahead with the procurement nevertheless. Turkey has sought to boost its air defense par ...
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Biden’s Recognition of "Armenian Genocide" : Goals and Implications
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Biden’s Recognition of "Armenian Genocide" : Goals and Implications

Monday 26 April 2021 ،
F-35 stealth fighter jet production program.  The massacring of the Armenians under the Ottoman rule has been up for debate since the First World War. However, with Turkey allied to the US-headed Western camp in the past years, Biden predecessors never used the term of genocide for the mass ki ...
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What’s US Plot for Lebanon behind Helicopter Donation?
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What’s US Plot for Lebanon behind Helicopter Donation?

Tuesday 23 November 2021 ،
F-35 stealth fighter jets to Abu Dhabi. The fighters are now only operated by the Israeli air force in the region. Therefore, the American military aids to Lebanon, naturally, are not in a position of being challenging to Tel Aviv. Given their specifications and scanty capabilities, these helicopter ...
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F-35 Fighter Deal: How Is UAE Being Played by US?
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F-35 Fighter Deal: How Is UAE Being Played by US?

Sunday 19 December 2021 ،
F-35s in case of delivery. Alwaght- While the UAE was expected to become a popular actor for the US in the Persian Gulf after normalization with the Israeli regime, the American failure to fulfill its promise of sale of F-35 fighter jets has recently begun to anger Abu Dhabi. Reports said the Arab s ...
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How Is Tel Aviv Playing the UAE with Normalization?
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How Is Tel Aviv Playing the UAE with Normalization?

Tuesday 1 February 2022 ،
F-35 stealth fighter jets and backing against Yemen missile strikes, is the wave of pessimism in the Arab world about joining the normalization process. Not only other normalizing states — Bahrain and Morocco, and Sudan — have not enjoyed normalization rewards but also Saudi Arabia, whic ...

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