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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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Why Is EU Increasingly Separating Ways from Trump?
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Why Is EU Increasingly Separating Ways from Trump?

Saturday 14 October 2017
Libya, and Yemen, where the crisis developed massive and complicated. After these military engagements, the world saw birth and evolution of the terrorist groups whose existence poses a considerable challenge to the security of Europe, with a large number of its Muslim citizens travelling all the wa ...
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What’s behind US Libya Model Denuclearization of North Korea?
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What’s behind US Libya Model Denuclearization of North Korea?

Wednesday 2 May 2018 ،
Libya’s 2003 process. Alwaght- Washington is looking at Libya as one example of how it will handle potential negotiations with North Korea on dismantling its nuclear program, John Bolton, who became the US national security advisor three weeks ago, told Fox News in his latest comments on Pyongyang d ...
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North Korea Threatens to Cancel Kim-Trump Summit
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North Korea Threatens to Cancel Kim-Trump Summit

Wednesday 16 May 2018 ،
Libya being a potential model for North Korean denuclearization. In December 2003, after months of negotiations with the US, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to dismantle his nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. Eight years later, after Washington soured on Gadhafi, NATO forces he ...
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Reasons behind Trump’s Yes, No then Yes Approach to North Korea
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Reasons behind Trump’s Yes, No then Yes Approach to North Korea

Sunday 27 May 2018 ،
Libya model adopted more than a decade ago. For decades, Libya under Colonel Muammar Gaddafi developed its nuclear program to make sure it could build deterrence against the US military action threats, the same threat that pushed Pyongyang towards developing nuclear weapons. Less than a decade after ...
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Two Scenarios behind Fresh US Claims about North Korea Nuclear Activities
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Two Scenarios behind Fresh US Claims about North Korea Nuclear Activities

Monday 2 July 2018 ،
Libya disarmament model. Washington does not aim to remove its military forces and equipment from East Asia as a concession to Kim since they serve its strategic agenda in competition with China and even Russia in region. Trump administration's succeeds in foisting its desires on Kim and dismant ...
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US Negotiation Strategy: One Model for All Seasons
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US Negotiation Strategy: One Model for All Seasons

Saturday 18 August 2018 ،
Libya denuclearization talks. Following the 9/11 attacks on the US and the ensuing invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, who was once in the Soviet-led camp and thus an opponent to the US-led West’s policies in Africa, told Washington he was ready to quit his nuclear pro ...
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US Demanded North Korea Hand Over all Nuclear Weapons: Report
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US Demanded North Korea Hand Over all Nuclear Weapons: Report

Saturday 30 March 2019 ،
Libya model” of denuclearization that North Korea has rejected repeatedly. The so-called Libya model refers to an agreement in 2003 by former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to surrender his country’s nuclear weapons program, which included allowing uranium centrifuges to be shipped out t ...
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N Korea Missile Test: Kim Losing Patience with Trump
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N Korea Missile Test: Kim Losing Patience with Trump

Sunday 5 May 2019 ،
Libya denuclearization model in North Korea, remarks which met firm rejection. Trump’s special representative to North Korea negotiations Stephen Biegun before Trump-Kim Hanoi summit asked the North to give a full list of its nuclear facilities to the US. North Korea, on the other side, has ...
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Bolton’s Absence from Trump-Kim Meeting Triggers His Explosion Rumors
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Bolton’s Absence from Trump-Kim Meeting Triggers His Explosion Rumors

Monday 1 July 2019 ،
Libya model” – a model that saw Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi overthrown and murdered seven years after agreeing to denuclearize. Last week Trump said during a Meet the Press interview while discussing Iran: “John Bolton is absolutely a hawk. If it was up to him he'd take ...
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Why Does Turkey Want Nukes?
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Why Does Turkey Want Nukes?

Monday 30 September 2019 ،
Libya, and Sudan considered, the ruling Justice and Development Party’s political elites have grown seriously skeptical and frustrated about an alliance with the West.  Ankara’s ongoing rift with Washington over the latter’s arming of the Syrian Kurds and also the American ha ...

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