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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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North Korea Blames America for Internet Outages
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North Korea Blames America for Internet Outages

Sunday 28 December 2014
KCNA news agency . In Hawaii, where Obama is vacationing, a White House official said the administration had no immediate comment on the latest North Korean statement blaming the United States for the Internet outages and insulting the president . Sony canceled the release of the film when large cin ...
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North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack
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North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack

Tuesday 6 January 2015 ،
KCNA news agency quoted the unnamed spokesman as saying on Sunday . On Friday, the US sanctioned 10 North Korean government officials and three organizations, including Pyongyang’s primary intelligence agency and state-run arms dealer, in what the White House described as an opening move in the res ...
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North Korea Offers to Suspend Nuclear Tests if U.S. Suspends Military Drills
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North Korea Offers to Suspend Nuclear Tests if U.S. Suspends Military Drills

Monday 12 January 2015 ،
KCNA news agency said was conveyed to Washington on Friday through a relevant channel, follows an often repeated demand by Pyongyang for an end to the large-scale defensive drills by the allies . The message proposed (that) America contribute to easing tension on the Korean peninsula by temporar ...
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N Korea Leader Calls on Army to ‘Prepare For War’
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N Korea Leader Calls on Army to ‘Prepare For War’

Monday 2 March 2015 ،
KCNA) reported on Saturday . “The prevailing situation where a great war for national reunification is at hand requires all the KPA (Korean People’s Army) units to become (elite) Guard Units fully prepared for war politically and ideologically, in military technique and materially,” said Kim . K ...
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US kingpin of Human Rights Violations: North Korea
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US kingpin of Human Rights Violations: North Korea

Tuesday 22 September 2015 ،
KCNA news agency, adding that Washington has been using political provocations aimed to destroy North Korea’s power structure. The representative of North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said that if the United States and its allies continue using political provocations against Pyongyang, North Korea will ...
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North Korea Preparing Nuclear Warhead Test to Deter US
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North Korea Preparing Nuclear Warhead Test to Deter US

Tuesday 15 March 2016 ،
KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered an imminent nuclear warhead explosion test and multiple ballistic missile launches. Kim made the announcement while supervising a successful simulated test of the atmospheric reentry of a ballistic ...
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North Korea Announces Successful Test of Long-Range Missile Engine
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North Korea Announces Successful Test of Long-Range Missile Engine

Saturday 9 April 2016 ،
KCNA news agency reported that the engine's test was ordered and personally monitored by leader Kim Jong-un. As soon as Kim flagged off the test, “the engine spewed out huge flames with deafening boom”, KCNA said. “The great success… provided a firm guarantee for mounti ...
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North Korea Strengthens Capability to Strike US
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North Korea Strengthens Capability to Strike US

Thursday 23 June 2016 ،
KCNA) quoted President Kim as saying after supervising the test launch. The DPRK leader added that the success of the missiles test is an important opportunity to enhance the strength of our country’s offensive nuclear strike, dubbing the test as a major event. On We ...
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N Korea Threatens Turn S Korea into Sea of Fire if US THAAD Deployment Confirmed
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N Korea Threatens Turn S Korea into Sea of Fire if US THAAD Deployment Confirmed

Monday 11 July 2016 ،
KCNA news agency cited North Korea's military as saying It is the unwavering will of our army to deal a ruthless retaliatory strike and turn (the South) into a sea of fire and a pile of ashes the moment we have an order to carry it out. The move to deploy the high-tech missile system also drew ...
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N Korea Test Fires 3 Ballistic Missiles, Reacting to US THAAD Deployment in S Korea
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N Korea Test Fires 3 Ballistic Missiles, Reacting to US THAAD Deployment in S Korea

Tuesday 19 July 2016 ،
KCNA news agency cited North Korea's military as saying It is the unwavering will of our army to deal a ruthless retaliatory strike and turn (the South) into a sea of fire and a pile of ashes the moment we have an order to carry it out. The move to deploy the anti-missile system also drew a qui ...

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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