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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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Is Riyadh Really Changing Its Syria Policy?

Is Riyadh Really Changing Its Syria Policy?

Thursday 23 January 2020
Jaafari to attend a ceremony in which the Arab Kingdom will be handed over the presidency of the G20. The Lebanese newspaper reported that the Saudi diplomat surprised the Syrian diplomat with a warm meeting and called for friendly relations between Riyadh and Damascus. The Saudi envoy has reportedl ...
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34 Turkish Troops Killed in Syria’s Idlib: Report

34 Turkish Troops Killed in Syria’s Idlib: Report

Friday 28 February 2020 ،
Jaafari says some countries are seeking to turn the Security Council into a platform for the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to support the Turkish aggression on Syrian territories. Speaking at a council’s session in New York on Thursday, Jaafari said the complete liberation ...
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Saudi Arabia Signals Inclination to Resume Ties with Syria

Saudi Arabia Signals Inclination to Resume Ties with Syria

Friday 12 June 2020 ،
Jaafari, to attend a special ceremony ahead of Riyadh’s presidency of the G20 Summit in December last year. Saudi Arabia’s main regional ally, the UAE declared the re-opening of its embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus in December 2018. Bahrain said shortly after that its embassy ther ...
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How Is Iraq’s Al-Kadhimi Visit To Iran Significant?

How Is Iraq’s Al-Kadhimi Visit To Iran Significant?

Saturday 25 July 2020 ،
Jaafari, first Iraqi minister after Sadam rule, during his one-year term visited Iran after 45 years in July 2005. Nouri al-Maliki, Haider al-Abadi, and Adel Abdul Mahdi as consecutive PMs of Iraq visited Iran several times and emphasized expansion of diplomatic and strategic relations between the t ...
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Turkey Uses Drinking Water as Weapon of War against Civilians in Syria’s Hasakah: Envoy

Turkey Uses Drinking Water as Weapon of War against Civilians in Syria’s Hasakah: Envoy

Friday 28 August 2020 ،
Jaafari. Alwaght- Turkey is using drinking war as a weapon of war against ordinary Syrian people in the country’s northeastern province of Hasakah, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari.  “The sufferings of people in the Jazira Region are neither limited ...
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Israeli Regime Buying Cheap Oil from US-Backed Militants: Paper

Israeli Regime Buying Cheap Oil from US-Backed Militants: Paper

Saturday 27 March 2021 ،
Jaafari said last year that the Delaware-based Delta Crescent Energy company had “entered into a contract with the SDF with the aim of stealing Syrian oil and depriving the Syrian state and Syrian people of the basic revenues necessary to improve the humanitarian situation, provide for livelih ...
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US Sanctions on Syria Amount to Economic Terrorism: Deputy FM

US Sanctions on Syria Amount to Economic Terrorism: Deputy FM

Tuesday 25 January 2022 ،
Jaafari said on Monday. Alwaght- The US sanctions on Syria amount to economic terrorism and have catastrophic impacts on its human rights situation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Bashar al-Jaafari said on Monday. Jaafari said in an address to the United Nations Human Rights Cou ...
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Raqqa: Revisiting  Big Crime by US

Raqqa: Revisiting Big Crime by US

Saturday 23 April 2022 ،
Jaafari told the UN that the occupying American and Turkish forces intentionally torched crops in Island region in northern Syria to cause food shortage. The complaints have so far gone nowhere because of strong sway of the US and other Western actors over international organizations.  Various ...
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Chemical Weapons Probes Can Expose Western Plots against Syria

Chemical Weapons Probes Can Expose Western Plots against Syria

Wednesday 7 December 2022 ،
Jaafari, the permanent representative of Syria to the UN, stressed that his country would not accept any results published by the investigation team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons regarding the incident in Duma, adding: “Some countries are trying to repeat what hap ...
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Death Toll from Syrian-Turkish Quakes Surpasses Grim Benchmark as Damascus Complains Discrimination

Death Toll from Syrian-Turkish Quakes Surpasses Grim Benchmark as Damascus Complains Discrimination

Thursday 9 February 2023 ،
Jaafari said on Thursday the US sanctions are hampering relief work in quake-stricken areas of the Arab country, saying they are “a serious obstacle” to the flow of aid to Syria. The Syrian diplomat also lambasted the West’s discrimination against the Syrian people, saying more ai ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies