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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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Saudi Warplanes Kill 12 Yemeni Civilians Including 4 Children in Saada
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Saudi Warplanes Kill 12 Yemeni Civilians Including 4 Children in Saada

Wednesday 4 October 2017
Ki-moon, who cited unacceptable pressure by the Persian Gulf Arab countries, including threats by Saudi Arabia to cut funding to the UN. The leaked report verified 1,340 cases of killing or wounding of children. Some 683, or 51 percent, were blamed on Saudi-led coalition air raids. The Saudi-led c ...
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Saudi-Led Alliance Blacklisted for Killing Yemeni Children
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Saudi-Led Alliance Blacklisted for Killing Yemeni Children

Friday 6 October 2017 ،
Ki-moon, who cited unacceptable pressure by the Persian Gulf countries, including threats by Saudi Arabia to cut humanitarian funding to the UN. Ban described his decision to remove the coalition off the list as one of the most painful and difficult. The Saudi-led coalition started a bloody aggres ...
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Amnesty Censures UN for Downplaying Saudi Killing of Yemeni Children
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Amnesty Censures UN for Downplaying Saudi Killing of Yemeni Children

Saturday 7 October 2017 ،
Ki-moon removed Saudi Arabia from the list a few days later, acknowledging that he had been forced to do so after the regime and its allies threatened to cut off funding to many UN programs. This year, while the UN report did blacklist the Saudi-led coalition, it also said the coalition had taken m ...
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Outgoing Yemen Envoy: How Did He Perform in Three Years?
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Outgoing Yemen Envoy: How Did He Perform in Three Years?

Friday 26 January 2018 ،
Ki-moon openly announced that the organization removed Saudi Arabia’s name from the blacklist after the oil-reach kingdom threatened to cut its financial aids to the world body. The special envoy to Yemen was seen as no exception as he walked in line with Saudi Arabia. The Yemenis recognize C ...
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Bahraini Court Upholds Dissolution of  Main  Opposition Party
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Bahraini Court Upholds Dissolution of Main Opposition Party

Monday 19 February 2018 ،
Ki-moon describing the dissolution as “the latest in a series of restrictions of the rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of association, and freedom of expression in Bahrain.” The Bahraini Justice Ministry had suspended the activities of the opposition group on June 14, 2016. The ruli ...
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How Does “Trumpistic” Militarism Increase World Poverty?
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How Does “Trumpistic” Militarism Increase World Poverty?

Monday 12 March 2018 ،
Ki-moon hoped for global poverty eradication by 2030. But Trump’s provocative and rash polices dashed hopes of many global countries and organizations attempting to get rid of poverty and environmental challenges.             &nb ...
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Why EU Parliament blocked Saudi Blacklisting?
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Why EU Parliament blocked Saudi Blacklisting?

Monday 4 March 2019 ،
Ki-moon, then UN secretary-general, to cross off Saudi name from the list of children killers. Furthermore, after Canada's foreign ministry blasted the Saudi mistreatment of women activists and for other human rights violations, Riyadh severed its diplomatic relations with Ottawa and suspended ...
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Iran Wants Probe into Israeli Kidnap of Its Diplomats in 1982
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Iran Wants Probe into Israeli Kidnap of Its Diplomats in 1982

Friday 5 July 2019 ،
Ki-moon, in which Beirut confirmed the abduction of the Iranian diplomats in the Lebanese territory and called for UN action to pursue the case. Israel has claimed that the Iranian diplomats were abducted by Lebanese Phalange forces and killed shortly after their abduction. The Lebanese resistance ...
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Saudi Airstrike Kills Four Children in Yemen as UN Removes Kingdom From List of Child Killers
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Saudi Airstrike Kills Four Children in Yemen as UN Removes Kingdom From List of Child Killers

Saturday 20 June 2020 ،
Ki-moon accused the kingdom of exerting unacceptable pressure on the UN with allied countries, allegedly threatening to cut vital funding for aid programs. Guterres returned the Saudi-led coalition to the list in 2017 in the wake of Saudi attacks on Yemeni schools and hospitals but placed it in a n ...
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Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join Over 100 Academics Denouncing The Israel lobby’s Attempt To Cancel Lowkey
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Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Naomi Klein Join Over 100 Academics Denouncing The Israel lobby’s Attempt To Cancel Lowkey

Thursday 31 March 2022 ،
In addition, dozens of prominent Jewish voices have rejected the Israel lobby’s attempts to silence Lowkey and signed the letter. These include writer and activist Naomi Klein, Professor Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents magazine, and journalist and lawyer Glenn Greenwald. A number o ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.