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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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What Drives Barzani’s Call for Independence Referendum?

What Drives Barzani’s Call for Independence Referendum?

Tuesday 4 April 2017
Jabouri and abandoned the meeting of Council of Representatives, the official name for the parliament. Reacting to the anti-Kurdish measures of the parliament, Karim on April 2 has dismissed the lawmakers' order as illegal, and the Kirkuk Provincial Council said that it will not bow to the flag ...
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What Drives Are Taking Iraq’s Al-Hakim to Egypt?

What Drives Are Taking Iraq’s Al-Hakim to Egypt?

Thursday 20 April 2017 ،
Jabouri, the parliament’s speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi, the head of Mutahedun Alliance, and Saleh al-Mutlaq, the head of Al-Arabiya Coalition, travelled to Jordan in late December to discuss the peace initiative with the Jordanian officials. And now al-Hakim’s visit of Egypt, the regional ...
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What Are Post-ISIS Mosul Challenges?

What Are Post-ISIS Mosul Challenges?

Wednesday 5 July 2017 ،
Jabouri has talked about plans for holding a Sunni conference in mid-July to which about 74 Sunni figures will be invited. The meeting, sources familiar with the case suggest, gets behind-the-scenes- sponsoring from a series of regional countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan. T ...
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What’s Behind Postponing Iraq’s Expected Sunni Conference?

What’s Behind Postponing Iraq’s Expected Sunni Conference?

Tuesday 18 July 2017 ،
Jabouri, the parliament’s Sunni speaker, asserting that it will be supported by some regional sides like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan, and will plan a Sunni donor conference set to be held in Kuwait in subsequent months. Some legally wanted figures like Rafi al-Issawi, former Iraq ...
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Iraqi Army, Popular Forces in Tal Afar Anti-ISIS Operation

Iraqi Army, Popular Forces in Tal Afar Anti-ISIS Operation

Thursday 3 August 2017 ،
Jabouri has said he does not expect it will be a fierce battle even though the enemy is surrounded. Beyond Tal Afar, ISIS still controls other pockets of territory in Iraq, including the town of Hawijah and the surrounding area.
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Iraqi Parliament Opposes Kurdish Referendum

Iraqi Parliament Opposes Kurdish Referendum

Tuesday 12 September 2017 ،
Jabouri said the vote made it incumbent on the government to “take all steps to protect the unity of Iraq and open a serious dialog” with Kurdish officials. “Parliament obliged Prime Minister Haider Abadi to take all measures that preserve the unity of Iraq and start a dialogue to ...
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Iraqi Parliament Speaker in Erbil amid High Tensions with Kurdistan Region

Iraqi Parliament Speaker in Erbil amid High Tensions with Kurdistan Region

Sunday 8 October 2017 ،
Jabouri arrived in Erbil to meet with the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani. Alwaght- Speaker of Iraq's parliament Salim Jabouri arrived in Erbil on Sunday to meet with the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani. Jabouri is visiting the capital city of Iraqi Kurdist ...
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New Iraqi PM, with Incomplete Cabinet, Sworn in

New Iraqi PM, with Incomplete Cabinet, Sworn in

Thursday 25 October 2018 ،
Jabouri (minister of industry), Saleh al-Hassani (minister of agriculture), and Bangin Rekani (minister of housing and reconstruction) were the other ministers approved by the parliament, according to Press TV. The rest of the candidates for the post were disputed by the Saerun, Nasr, and Wataniya ...
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What Factors Are Delaying Iraq’s Cabinet Completion?

What Factors Are Delaying Iraq’s Cabinet Completion?

Thursday 20 June 2019 ،
Jabouri among the Sunnis, and Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani among the Kurds have been charismatic figures who over the past years lead the country through various crises by their personal compromises. But in the new conditions, they are absent from top posts or they cannot do much using their ch ...
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Kirkuk Governor Election Iraq’s New Contentious Point

Kirkuk Governor Election Iraq’s New Contentious Point

Saturday 27 July 2019 ،
Jabouri, the deputy governor was appointed as acting governor replacing Najmuddin Karim. As a result, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), two main holders of the power in the Kurdish region, went through a serious cleavage over what kind of role the Kurds ...

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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