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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 Sends Warship to Tartus after US Missile Attack on Syria
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Russia Sends Warship to Tartus after US Missile Attack on Syria

Saturday 8 April 2017
Khan Shaykhun in Syria’s Idlib Province earlier this month. Washington has not provided any evidence to support the accusations, prompting criticisms from many countries and international intuitions for choosing to take unilateral military action hastily and without proof. The strike drew th ...
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US Illegal Attack on Syrian Airbase to Have Extremely Serious Consequences: Russia
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US Illegal Attack on Syrian Airbase to Have Extremely Serious Consequences: Russia

Saturday 8 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in Syria’s Idlib Province earlier this month. Syria categorically denied it carried out the attack. The incident catapulted Washington into confrontation with Russia, which supports Syrian government in its fight against terrorism. We strongly condemn the illegitimate actions ...
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US Playing Terrorism Game: Russia
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US Playing Terrorism Game: Russia

Sunday 9 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib province. During the conversation, which was the first between high ranking US and Russia officials since the airbase attack, Lavrov also reiterated his country’s position that accusations that the Syrian government had attacked Khan Shaykhun last week are not in li ...
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US Attack on Syria Strategic Mistake, Boost Terrorism: Iran Leader
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US Attack on Syria Strategic Mistake, Boost Terrorism: Iran Leader

Sunday 9 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in Idlib Province. Anti-Damascus militants and Western countries rushed to blame Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the incident, without providing any evidence to support their accusations. Rouhani emphasized that the US airstrikes against Syria were an attempt to strengthen terror ...
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UK Has No Influence in Intl Affairs: Russia
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UK Has No Influence in Intl Affairs: Russia

Monday 10 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in Idlib province. Johnson’s visit to Moscow was canceled after Washington announced that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would be going to Moscow to deliver a clear and coordinated message. A statement released by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday noted that during Jo ...
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Iran’s Defense Minister Talks with Russia, Syria Counterparts Over US Aggression
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Iran’s Defense Minister Talks with Russia, Syria Counterparts Over US Aggression

Wednesday 12 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in Idlib Province. “Such measures will have no impact on determination and will of the resistance front in the battle against terrorists,” Brigadier General Dehqan said during the talks with his Syrian counterpart General Fahd Jassem al-Freij who is also the Commander-in-Ch ...
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Russia Urges Intl. Probe on Syria Chemical Weapons Incident
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Russia Urges Intl. Probe on Syria Chemical Weapons Incident

Wednesday 12 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib province. Syria has categorically rejected claims it used chemical weapons insisting that foreign-backed terrorists are the ones having stockpiles of the deadly weapons. Alwaght- Russia has reiterated the need for an international probe on the Syria chemical weapons inci ...
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Russia Vetoes Anti-Syria Resolution at UN Security Council
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Russia Vetoes Anti-Syria Resolution at UN Security Council

Thursday 13 April 2017 ،
Khan Shaykhun in Syria’s Idlib province on April 4. Without providing any evidence, the US has already declared the Syrian government guilty of the alleged sarin gas attack and responded by carrying out an illegal aggression against the Arab state with a barrage of cruise missiles targeting an ...

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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