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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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Agreement Reached on Transfer of Oil from Abandoned Tanker off Yemen: UN
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Agreement Reached on Transfer of Oil from Abandoned Tanker off Yemen: UN

Wednesday 16 February 2022
Malik al-Ajri said on Tuesday.  “We demand cessation of all forms of overt and covert aggression against Yemen,” Ajri noted. He highlighted that representatives from the National Salvation Government would enter negotiation for a nationwide ceasefire on the condition tha ...
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Iraqi Federal Court Ruling to Potentially End Baghdad-Erbil Oil Dispute
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Iraqi Federal Court Ruling to Potentially End Baghdad-Erbil Oil Dispute

Sunday 20 February 2022 ،
Maliki, to criticize Erbil's policies. For Baghdad, the problem was that the KRG's holding of the oil revenues in addition to receiving 17 percent of the national Iraqi budget. In late 2013, al-Maliki ordered cutting off the KRG budget and delivery of the Kurdish oil sales revenues to the St ...
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Iraqi Shiites’ "National Stability" Coalition: Goals, Nature
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Iraqi Shiites’ "National Stability" Coalition: Goals, Nature

Monday 21 February 2022 ،
Maliki from the coalition in return for a share in the new government.  Secondly, formation of a coalition paves the way for other lawmakers to join a big representation coalition. Turki al-Utaibi, a member of the SCF, said on Saturday that there are independent lawmakers who will soon join SC ...
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US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of FBI in Muslim Surveillance Case
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US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of FBI in Muslim Surveillance Case

Saturday 5 March 2022 ،
Malik, who attended the Islamic Center of Irvine; and Yasser Abdel Rahim, a US permanent resident from Egypt who also attended the Islamic Center of Irvine. They are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and others. The Supreme Court just ruled in our case, FBI v. Fazaga, that the FBI c ...
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FATF Adds UAE to Global Money-Laundering ‘Grey List’
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FATF Adds UAE to Global Money-Laundering ‘Grey List’

Sunday 6 March 2022 ،
Mali and Jordan on its increased monitoring list.  A grey-listing reportedly strains countries' ties to foreign banks and investors that follow FATF rankings.  Unfair process The FATF is a non-binding regulatory institution formed by Germany, Britain, Italy, the US, France, Japan an ...
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Sadr- Maliki Discuss Current Situation in Rare Phone Conversation
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Sadr- Maliki Discuss Current Situation in Rare Phone Conversation

Friday 11 March 2022 ،
Maliki should be isolated from new government. Alwaght- Muqtada al-Sadr of Iraq and former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke over phone on Friday, discussing the current situation in the country and possibility of forming a government.  Al-Sadr, the head of Sadrist Movement and the winner o ...
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US, Russia Trade Accusations about Bio-Weapons in Ukraine
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US, Russia Trade Accusations about Bio-Weapons in Ukraine

Saturday 12 March 2022 ،
The US and Russia traded accusations at the United Nations Security Council about biological weapons in Ukraine. Russia insists that the US has financed a biological weapons research program in Ukraine while Washington denies the accusation. Alwaght- The US and Russia traded accusations at the Unite ...
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Challenge of Electing President, Heavy Defeat of Sadr’s Fledgling Coalition
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Challenge of Electing President, Heavy Defeat of Sadr’s Fledgling Coalition

Sunday 27 March 2022 ،
Maliki, in the past few days. Al-Maliki, in response to the announcement of the Iraqi presidential and prime ministerial candidates by Sadr, said: We believe that the parliament will not be able to reach the quorum in Saturday's session. It is impossible for a tripartite coalition to reach 220 m ...
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Saudi Arabia to Regret if the Regime Misses 3-Day Truce Opportunity to End War
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Saudi Arabia to Regret if the Regime Misses 3-Day Truce Opportunity to End War

Tuesday 29 March 2022 ،
Malik al-Houthi made the remarks in a televised speech broadcast live from the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Monday afternoon as he addressed clerics and religious scholars ahead of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. “There is no chance for the countries waging aggression agai ...
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Saudi Arabia Attacks Yemen, Violates Ceasefire
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Saudi Arabia Attacks Yemen, Violates Ceasefire

Wednesday 30 March 2022 ،
Malik al-Houthi said on Monday evening. Chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council Mahdi al-Mashat on Saturday evening announced the suspension of retaliatory missile and drone attacks and all military actions against Saudi Arabia for a period of three days. Saudi Arabia launched the deva ...

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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.