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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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30 Killed in Chad Terrorist Attack
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30 Killed in Chad Terrorist Attack

Sunday 6 December 2015
Lake Chad on Saturday. Alwaght- At least 30 people have been killed after the terrorists  attacked the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of Lake Chad on Saturday. Security officials said the attacks on Saturday were carried out on the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of Lake Chad on ...
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Nigeria, Chad Lunch Joint Op to Retake Boko Hram-Held Areas
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Nigeria, Chad Lunch Joint Op to Retake Boko Hram-Held Areas

Wednesday 22 June 2016 ،
Lake Chad Basin, including Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The repeated attacks by Boko Haram have growing humanitarian consequences for countries of the Lake Chad Basin area as over nine million displaced people now need assistance; therefore regional countries have created a joint military force that p ...
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Nigeria on Verge of Famine as WFP Runs out of Funding
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Nigeria on Verge of Famine as WFP Runs out of Funding

Saturday 15 April 2017 ،
Lake Chad region - which spreads across parts of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad - and $457 million had been pledged for 2017 by late February. Despite the Nigerian army saying the insurgency is on the run, large parts of the country's northeast, particularly in Borno state, remain under thre ...
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Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 18 People in Nigeria Displaced Civilians Camp
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Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 18 People in Nigeria Displaced Civilians Camp

Saturday 2 September 2017 ،
Lake Chad Basin countries of Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria, together with a contingent from Benin, launched a campaign to confront the threat from Boko Haram in the region.  
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16 Killed as Terrorists Attack Restive Nigerian City of Maiduguri
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16 Killed as Terrorists Attack Restive Nigerian City of Maiduguri

Monday 23 October 2017 ،
Lake Chad in 2009, at least 20,000 have been killed. Sustained counterinsurgency operations were begun in early 2015 by Nigeria's military, whose spokesman Brigadier General Sani Usman said last month that suggestions of a Boko Haram resurgence were concocted. A victory over the Boko Haram had ...
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Boko Haram Takfiri Terrorists Kill 11 in Nigeria Mosque Attack
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Boko Haram Takfiri Terrorists Kill 11 in Nigeria Mosque Attack

Wednesday 3 January 2018 ،
Lake Chad region, but the Nigerian military, with assistance from Chad, Cameroon and Niger, has pushed its fighters out of a number of provinces in the northeast. Despite the pushback from the international coalition, Boko Haram remains active in the area, often carrying out suicide attacks against ...
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Half Million Malnourished Children around Lake Chad Facing Death: UN
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Half Million Malnourished Children around Lake Chad Facing Death: UN

Saturday 9 June 2018 ،
Lake Chad need life-saving assistance, The United Nations has warned, saying funding for humanitarian aid in the region was dramatically low. Alwaght- Some half a million severely malnourished children around Africa's Lake Chad need life-saving assistance, The United Nations has warned, saying f ...
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Militants Kills 25 Nigerian Soldiers in Borno State
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Militants Kills 25 Nigerian Soldiers in Borno State

Sunday 26 May 2019 ،
Lake Chad region. Boko Haram militants have been fighting government forces for about a decade. Since 2009, attacks by Boko Haram terrorists have left at least 27,000 dead and made over 2.6 million others homeless. Boko Haram’s sphere of activities spreads to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cam ...
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Boko Haram Kills at Least 92 soldiers in Chad
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Boko Haram Kills at Least 92 soldiers in Chad

Wednesday 25 March 2020 ،
Lake Chad region in recent months. In 2015, countries in the region formed the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) to fight the militants. The MNJTF is a joint force consisting of soldiers from Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Chad, and Benin. It is tasked with ending the Boko Haram militancy in the La ...

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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