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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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America's Double Standards on Bahrain
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America's Double Standards on Bahrain

Saturday 31 May 2014
abuse in Bahrain and regime's violent response to pro-democracy demonstrators--majority of Shiites seeking for their legal rights--because they believe Bahraini dictator could better serve their vast, expensive, and strategic interests in Bahrain. American double standards and exceptionalism hav ...
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American Diplomat's Expulsion from Bahrain
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American Diplomat's Expulsion from Bahrain

Monday 14 July 2014 ،
Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski, was ordered to leave Bahrain after he met with the nation’s main Shiite opposition group on 7 July, 2014. America Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Tom Malinowski, was ordered to leave Bahrain after he met with the nation’s mai ...
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Human Rights Made In Saudi

Human Rights Made In Saudi

Sunday 12 October 2014 ،
Human rights organizations have criticized the awful conditions in Al-Saud prisons.  Congressional representatives of America have pleaded Obama to cancel his trip to Riyadh, due to the apparent violations of human rights in Saudi.  Based on the leaked news from Saudi prisons, conversation with the ...
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Cameron to Meet Davutoglu for Turkey's Counter-Terror Status
Report

Cameron to Meet Davutoglu for Turkey's Counter-Terror Status

Tuesday 9 December 2014 ،
abuses and repression in Turkey, his spokesman claimed: “No issue is ever off the table .” “The focus, particularly given current events in Syria and Iraq and in that region, will be CT (counter terrorism) and ISIS,” he added. “Certainly people traveling overseas from the UK to take part in terr ...
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CIA tortured, misled, Senate report finds, Bush, Dick Cheney Defend its Tactics
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CIA tortured, misled, Senate report finds, Bush, Dick Cheney Defend its Tactics

Wednesday 10 December 2014 ،
Human Rights Watch in New York. The CIA dismissed the findings, saying its interrogations secured valuable information. Many Republicans criticized the decision by Democratic lawmakers to release the report, which was put together by the committee's Democratic majority, saying it would put Amer ...
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UK and US Protect the Entire Network of Dictatorial Persian Gulf Arab Regimes

UK and US Protect the Entire Network of Dictatorial Persian Gulf Arab Regimes

Wednesday 31 December 2014 ،
abuses of its own in Iraq and Afghanistan . So you’d hardly think this reminder of the horrors unleashed in the name of the war on terror was the time for Britain to announce its first permanent military base in the Middle East for four decades. The presence of western troops and support for dictat ...

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Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity

Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity