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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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Russia Responds to US Deployment of Missiles Along Its Border
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Russia Responds to US Deployment of Missiles Along Its Border

Sunday 4 March 2018
missiles, State Duma’s defense committee chief has said. Alwaght- Russia is undertaking measures of mirror response to the US deployment of 400 ABM missiles, targeted on Russia, head of the State Duma’s defense committee Vladimir Shamanov said. This situation is, of course, under control, and ...
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Russia Successfully Test-Fires Hypersonic Missile Able to Carry Nuclear Warheads
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Russia Successfully Test-Fires Hypersonic Missile Able to Carry Nuclear Warheads

Sunday 11 March 2018 ،
missile for the first time, the country’s defense ministry says. Alwaght- Russia has successfully test fired a hypersonic air-to-surface missile for the first time, the country's defense ministry said. A video showing a new set of tests of the cutting-edge hypersonic Kinzhal missile has be ...
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Putin Vows to Retaliate US Withdrawal from Nuclear Treaty
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Putin Vows to Retaliate US Withdrawal from Nuclear Treaty

Tuesday 20 November 2018 ،
missile systems and warned Washington about potential retaliation. “Now, we have hypersonic weapons capable of penetrating any missile defense,” Putin said, referring to Russia’s newest state-of-the-art weapons. Moscow will not allow anyone to drag itself into another armed race, ...
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Putin Witnesses Launch of Russia’s Avangard Hypersonic Missile
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Putin Witnesses Launch of Russia’s Avangard Hypersonic Missile

Thursday 27 December 2018 ،
missile, declaring that the weapon is impossible to intercept Alwaght- Russian President Vladimir Putin has watched test of a new hypersonic missile, declaring that the weapon is impossible to intercept and will guarantee the country's security over the coming decades. As for this topic in gene ...
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US Identifies China, Russia, Iran as Biggest National Security Threats
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US Identifies China, Russia, Iran as Biggest National Security Threats

Friday 25 January 2019 ،
Hypersonic weapons. Russia and China are developing Mach-5-plus weapons that can penetrate U.S. anti-missile defenses. Significantly, the report notes that there are no existing countermeasures to these weapons. Counterspace weapons. In addition to Russian effort, China is developing capa ...
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What’s Behind Trump’s Space Military Ambitions?
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What’s Behind Trump’s Space Military Ambitions?

Saturday 2 February 2019 ،
missile defense to address Russian missile threats. Alwaght- The Trump administration in late October 2018 said it considered pulling out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), giving Russia 60 days to accept its demands to stay in the accord. Washington and Moscow talked on January 18 in a ...
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For Trump, North Korea Talks Simply a Play Card
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For Trump, North Korea Talks Simply a Play Card

Sunday 24 February 2019 ،
missile tests and since then did not conduct nuclear tests. This is all of what Trump after the meeting called a great achievement. Aside from the intimate comments of the leaders, in a deeper layer of the politics the two sides’ definition of the denuclearization differs. According to Trump& ...
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What’s Driving Pompeo’s Moscow Visit?
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What’s Driving Pompeo’s Moscow Visit?

Tuesday 14 May 2019 ،
missiles, the first test since last year when Trump met Kim in Singapore for the first time. Some military experts identified the tested weapons as Russian-type Iskander missiles. This forces the Americans to bow to the fact that they need to accept the Russian role if they want the talks to come in ...
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NATO New Space Strategy: Aspects, Challenges
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NATO New Space Strategy: Aspects, Challenges

Saturday 6 July 2019 ،
missile that put it third in a two-member club comprised of the US and Russia. In 2012, China military also tested a new hypersonic missile named WU-14 with a 7,000 range and is thought to reach speeds between Mach 5 (3,836 mph (6,173 km/h; 1,715 m/s)) and Mach 10 (7,680 mph (12,360 km/h; 3,430 m/s) ...
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Post-Coronavirus World, Transition From Unipolar Order
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Post-Coronavirus World, Transition From Unipolar Order

Saturday 4 April 2020 ،
missiles and forms the United States Space Forces (USSF) to address them, the emergence of coronavirus severely challenges its economy and security.  The US, since WWI identifying itself as the main arm of the United Nations Security Council and guarantor of world security, now is desperate to ...

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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