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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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Turkish Call for Safe Zone in Northern Syria Rooted in His Colonial Projects: Lawmaker
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Turkish Call for Safe Zone in Northern Syria Rooted in His Colonial Projects: Lawmaker

Saturday 11 June 2022
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist group, which has been fighting a hugely-deadly separatist war against Turkey for decades.  
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Iraqi Kurdistan Gas Exports Squeezed by Federal Court Ruling
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Iraqi Kurdistan Gas Exports Squeezed by Federal Court Ruling

Sunday 3 July 2022 ،
Kurdistan region’s gas and oil contracts are invalid, wreaking havok to KRG’s financial arteries. Alwaght- After years of unchecked freedom of the Iraqi Kurdistan region's government in oil sales in the shadow of lack of central government's supervision and questioning, a heavy economic stor ...
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Political Forces in New Iraqi Cabinet’s Composition
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Political Forces in New Iraqi Cabinet’s Composition

Sunday 20 November 2022 ،
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have the major ministerial posts and this means that consensus-based government system is still adopted in the country.  Currently, 12 ministries, out of 21 assigned ministries, are assigned to SCF, the most prominent of which are the ministries of interior, fi ...
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Iraq’s General Amnesty Law Causing Heated Debate Over its Coverage Range
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Iraq’s General Amnesty Law Causing Heated Debate Over its Coverage Range

Thursday 20 April 2023 ،
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Sunni Sovereignty Bloc and Al-Azm Alliance, and Christian Babylon Movement are in favor of the motion.  Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, a member of the Judicial Commission of the parliament, in an interview with Al-Sumaria News po ...
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Kurds Double-Edged Sword Determining Erdogan’s Win or Loss
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Kurds Double-Edged Sword Determining Erdogan’s Win or Loss

Sunday 30 April 2023 ،
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the HDP is not present in any of the two rival coalitions of Erdogan and Kilicdaroglu, but the senior members of this party lean to Erdogan’s opposition due to their feud to the president.  Medhat Sanjar, the Arab-decented co-chair of the HDP, in an ...
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F-16s, Ending Canada’s Arms Embargo Win Erdogan’s Approval for Sweden NATO Bid
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F-16s, Ending Canada’s Arms Embargo Win Erdogan’s Approval for Sweden NATO Bid

Wednesday 12 July 2023 ،
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) supporter, launching investigations against terror funding and closely working with Turkish security agencies to establish a desk to track activities in Sweden of people linked to the Kurdish armed group. Erdogan was close to giving a final green light. Bu ...
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Years after ISIS Obliteration, Thousands of Iraqis Remain Domestically Displaced
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Years after ISIS Obliteration, Thousands of Iraqis Remain Domestically Displaced

Wednesday 26 July 2023 ،
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Recently, Abdulrahim al-Shomari, the deputy governor of Nineveh, confirmed that the Kurdish Peshmerga forces are not leaving the province, warning that “if this situation continues this way, in the future we will witness escalation of tensions by the protes ...
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With Ultimatum End, How’s Disarming Separatist Terrorists on Iraqi Border with Iran Going?
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With Ultimatum End, How’s Disarming Separatist Terrorists on Iraqi Border with Iran Going?

Wednesday 27 September 2023 ،
Kurdistan region, some clauses of this agreement have not been fully implemented, which must be followed up. Iran had earlier warned that after the end of the six-month deadline, if the terrorist groups are not disarmed, it will resume attacks on the positions of these groups in northern Iraq, and ...
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Iraq’s Provincial Council Elections Kick Off
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Iraq’s Provincial Council Elections Kick Off

Monday 18 December 2023 ،
Kurdistan Region, and elect the governor and his two deputies in each province.  According to the ‘Law of Governorates Not Incorporated into a Region’, which was approved in 2008, the election cycle of Iraqi provincial councils must be repeated every 4 years, which means that the l ...
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Iranian FM Stresses Need for ‘Full Implementation’ of Tehran-Baghdad Agreements
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Iranian FM Stresses Need for ‘Full Implementation’ of Tehran-Baghdad Agreements

Thursday 14 March 2024 ،
Kurdistan region. “We have taken the necessary measures to purge armed groups from areas along the border between Iraq and Iran. And for that purpose, I will travel to Tehran tomorrow to hold talks on the matter with Iranian authorities,” the top Iraqi diplomat announced. He added, &ld ...

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