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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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Syrian Army Regains Control over Key Areas in Aleppo, Lattakia
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Syrian Army Regains Control over Key Areas in Aleppo, Lattakia

Monday 21 December 2015
Khan Touman town and Qarassi village in the southern countryside of Aleppo province.  “During the past few hours, army units carried out special and swift operations, establishing full control over Qarassi village and the surrounding warehouses,”  a military source told SANA on Sunday. L ...
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Terrorist Groups Sabotage Syria’s Ceasefire
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Terrorist Groups Sabotage Syria’s Ceasefire

Monday 9 May 2016 ،
Khan Touman which the Syrian army is preparing to retake. Inwardly, after so many violations and perfidy, Syrian government forces as well as Damascus appear to be losing faith in ceasefires as they have become means of protection for foreign-backed terrorist groups. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Min ...
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Evidence of Foreign Support for Terrorists in Syria Re-emerges
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Evidence of Foreign Support for Terrorists in Syria Re-emerges

Tuesday 10 May 2016 ،
Khan Touman in southern Aleppo and then proceeded to cut off the terrorists’ supplies through Aleppo-Damascus highway. However, Jaish al-Fatah has managed to reoccupy Khan Touman having used the US-supplied TOW-missile against government vehicles. Today, as the battle for Khan Touman is in it ...
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Takfiris Terrorists Detain Bodies of 12 IRGC Advisers Killed in Syria
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Takfiris Terrorists Detain Bodies of 12 IRGC Advisers Killed in Syria

Tuesday 10 May 2016 ،
Khan Touman, located in the southwest of the Syrian province of Aleppo. The statement added that the IRGC forces were all from Iran's northern province of Mazandaran. Fighting still continues in these areas and access to the martyrs’ bodies will be possible [only] after the liberation of ...
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Decisive Battle Rages in Syria’s Khan Touman, other Battlefields
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Decisive Battle Rages in Syria’s Khan Touman, other Battlefields

Friday 13 May 2016 ،
Khan Touman. Alwaght- The news coming from Khan Touman town, strategically located near the Aleppo-Damascus highway southwest of Syria’s Aleppo, show that there is tense fighting between the Syrian government’s forces along with allies and the forces from the terrorist group Jaysh al-Fat ...
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Russia, Iran and Hezbollah Jointly Work to Stabilize Syria’s Aleppo
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Russia, Iran and Hezbollah Jointly Work to Stabilize Syria’s Aleppo

Saturday 25 June 2016 ،
Khan Touman and other places in Aleppo by terrorists. The fresh advances were backed by Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Due to change of balance of power in favor of the Syrian government’s forces as well as the Kurdish units, Ankara in a quick move reopened its borders to allow more opposition and ...
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Revised Strategy; Moscow Turns to Tehran as Key Ally
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Revised Strategy; Moscow Turns to Tehran as Key Ally

Sunday 3 July 2016 ،
Khan Touman town in Aleppo in northern Syria following Russian announcement of exit from Syria, the Iranian analyst noted that it was because of a Russian strategic mistake. “The Russians were double-crossed by the Americans during the ceasefire process, but Khan Touman events proved to Mosco ...
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Syrian Jets Hit Terrorist Positions in Aleppo
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Syrian Jets Hit Terrorist Positions in Aleppo

Wednesday 28 September 2016 ،
Khan Touman to the south of the city and elsewhere in the area, AFP reported. The strikes led to “the destruction of armored vehicles and (other) vehicles, some of which were equipped with machine guns,” he said. After a weeklong truce brokered by the US and Russian foreign ministers, ...
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Syrian Army Gives Terrorists 24 Hours to Leave Aleppo
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Syrian Army Gives Terrorists 24 Hours to Leave Aleppo

Sunday 13 November 2016 ،
Khan Touman. The Syrian army is currently on high alert during the next 24 hours.
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Over 50 Killed, 100 Injured as Infighting Intensifies among Terrorists in Syria’s Idlib
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Over 50 Killed, 100 Injured as Infighting Intensifies among Terrorists in Syria’s Idlib

Tuesday 14 February 2017 ،
Khan Touman and its nearby villages while the clashes were exclusively between Tahrir al-Sham and Jund al-Aqsa, Al Masdar News reported. On Monday afternoon, Jund al-Aqsa militants stormed a sharia court around two kilometers south of Khan Touman and executed 24 members of Tahrir al-Sham at point-b ...

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Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity