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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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US Tests Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan
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US Tests Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan

Thursday 13 April 2017
MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday. The MOAB is also known as the mother of all bombs. A MOAB is a 21,000-pound (9,525 kg), GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb. The bomb was dropped by an MC-130 aircraft, operated by Air Force Special Operations Co ...
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Karzai Slams US Dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ in Afghanistan
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Karzai Slams US Dropping ‘Mother of All Bombs’ in Afghanistan

Friday 14 April 2017 ،
MOAB ( Mother of All Bombs) for the first time to conduct a strike on a tunnel system used by ISIS terror group's offshoot in Afghanistan (outlawed in Russia) in Nangarhar province. I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon, the largest non-nuclear bomb, on A ...
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Russia’s ‘Father of All Bombs’ Eclipses US MOAB
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Russia’s ‘Father of All Bombs’ Eclipses US MOAB

Saturday 15 April 2017 ،
MOAB. It is a 21,000-pound (9,525 kg), GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nuclear bomb. However, according to RT, The Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power, known as the ‘Father of all bombs’ (FOAB), was developed by Russia in 2007 and eclipses its US riv ...
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What’s Behind US Defense Sec Unannounced Afghanistan Visit?
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What’s Behind US Defense Sec Unannounced Afghanistan Visit?

Wednesday 26 April 2017 ،
MOAB, Mother Of All Bombs. On the heels of the huge bombing, HR McMaster travelled to Afghanistan, and from there to Pakistan. Recently, the top commander of the US forces in Afghanistan General John Nicholson has told the Congress that he thought that the war in Afghanistan is “at a stalemat ...

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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.