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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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Are Al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside US-Backed Militants in Syria’s South?

Are Al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside US-Backed Militants in Syria’s South?

Tuesday 26 June 2018
Fallujah al-Houran Brigade, the Bunyan al-Marsous grouping, Saifollah al-Masloul Brigade, and others are currently occupying keys areas in Daraa in cooperation with the Nusra Front. None of this is news to American policymakers. Even before the MOC was established in February 2014, Nusra militants ...
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How Bosnian Weapons Sold to Saudi Arabia End up at Syria-Based Terrorists’ Hands

How Bosnian Weapons Sold to Saudi Arabia End up at Syria-Based Terrorists’ Hands

Monday 23 July 2018 ،
Fallujah and Ramadi. By that time, we were already doing rocket launchers for Saddam, 260mm with a range of 500km. I saw Saddam three times.” But Novi Travnik’s fortunes declined when the Bosnian war began in 1992, its once 10,000-strong workforce today reduced to fewer than 900. Much o ...
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Iraq May End US Military Presence Soon

Iraq May End US Military Presence Soon

Wednesday 13 February 2019 ،
Fallujah and Ramadi, Erbil in the Kurdish autonomous region, Qayyarah Airfield West in Nineveh province, and Ain al-Assad in Al-Anbar among others, the US is the foreign force with the largest military presence in Iraq. The magnitude of the military presence and running the military bases apparentl ...
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How Likely Is ISIS Reorganization?

How Likely Is ISIS Reorganization?

Wednesday 13 March 2019 ،
Fallujah in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Shortly later, Mosul, the center of Iraq’s Nineveh province, fell to it too. Since then, ISIS based its strategy on a campaign of psychological warfare and looting the Iraqi natural sources to build its power in Syria and Iraq. ISIS promotional vide ...
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Iraqi Children Born Near US Military Base Show Elevated Rates of ’Serious Congenital Deformities: Study

Iraqi Children Born Near US Military Base Show Elevated Rates of ’Serious Congenital Deformities: Study

Sunday 1 December 2019 ،
Fallujah, where the U.S. military carried out major assaults during its occupation of the country. The study published in Environmental Pollution was conducted by a team of independent Iraqi and American researchers in Iraq during the summer and fall of 2016. They analyzed 19 babies born with serio ...
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From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia Creating Next Fallujah in Yemen

From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia Creating Next Fallujah in Yemen

Saturday 21 March 2020 ،
Fallujah, Iraq, which to this day is causing abnormally high rates of cancer and birth defects. The hazardous chemicals from Saudi Coalition military waste, including radioactive materials, fuel hydrocarbons, and heavy metals, has already led to outbreaks of disease. Vehicles abandoned on battlefie ...
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17 Years Of War Crimes: Iraq To Sue US

17 Years Of War Crimes: Iraq To Sue US

Friday 18 December 2020 ،
Fallujah hospital in Al-Anbar province west of Iraq, once said that 16 years after the war, every year thousands of children are born with deformities in Fallujah because of the American use of banned weapons. He held that white phosphorus and other fatal weapons the US army used in the Iraq war hav ...
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US Navy Names Assault Ship after Operations That Killed Hundreds of Iraqi Civilians

US Navy Names Assault Ship after Operations That Killed Hundreds of Iraqi Civilians

Saturday 17 December 2022 ،
Fallujah, almost two decades after the western Iraqi city was the scene of bloody battles that killed hundreds of civilians. The US Navy has named a next-generation helicopter assault ship the USS Fallujah, almost two decades after the western Iraqi city was the scene of bloody battles that killed h ...
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‘Israel Chose Expansion over security’: Noam Chomsky Q&A

‘Israel Chose Expansion over security’: Noam Chomsky Q&A

Sunday 9 April 2023 ،
Fallujah in memory of one of the worst atrocities of the US attack. Fallujah had been … a beautiful city. Marines invaded, destroyed it, killed thousands of people … People are still dying from the weapons that were used with phosphorus, depleted uranium. It’s more than atrociou ...
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Israeli Warplanes Launch Fresh Aggression on Besieged Gaza Strip

Israeli Warplanes Launch Fresh Aggression on Besieged Gaza Strip

Saturday 13 May 2023 ،
Fallujah cemetery, east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, and another land east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, without causing any injuries. It raised the death toll from the Israeli onslaught on Gaza to 33, including three women and six children, while more than 150 have been wounded, ...

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