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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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ISIS Shifts Course after Paris, San Bernardino Terror Attacks
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ISIS Shifts Course after Paris, San Bernardino Terror Attacks

Sunday 6 March 2016
As ISIS grows bigger with its affiliates expanding further, the US, on the other side of the game, in line with allies needs to review anti-ISIS strategy to check the group’s increasing expansion. Alwaght- The crash of the Russian passenger jet in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in October, 2015, for ...
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Why It Difficult To Deal with “Lone Wolf” Attacks?
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Why It Difficult To Deal with “Lone Wolf” Attacks?

Saturday 18 June 2016 ،
Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat. Actually, Simon refers to a type of terrorism which is way different from the organized terrorism of the 1980s, 1990s and even the early decade of 21st century.  Simon recognizes the lone wolves as an individual or individuals who act with ...
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ISIS Inspired Terrorist Stabs a Man in Austrailia
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ISIS Inspired Terrorist Stabs a Man in Austrailia

Sunday 11 September 2016 ،
Lonely Wolves to commit small but largely untraceable attacks in western countries and recently threatened to increase the number of such attacks in a video posted on line.
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500 ISIS Members Live in Germany: Interior Minister
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500 ISIS Members Live in Germany: Interior Minister

Sunday 11 September 2016 ،
Lone wolves are ISIS members dispersed around the world who carry out their attacks individually in a more limited but meanwhile untraceable way. The hit teams are secretly smuggled into Europe and prepare their actions without being noticed, as we saw with the attacks in Paris and Brussels,” ...
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Third Intifada, Change of Israeli Security Behaviors
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Third Intifada, Change of Israeli Security Behaviors

Monday 28 November 2016 ،
Tel Aviv begins to review ways of dealing with Palestinian uprising as it faces new fashion of Palestinian attacks taking cue from the lone wolf assaults. Alwaght- Past year, from October 2015 to October 2016, can be considered as one of the most important and decisive times of the Palestinian cause ...

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Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures

Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures