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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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Detroit restoring power following massive outage
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Detroit restoring power following massive outage

Thursday 4 December 2014
Michigan, after a massive power outage on Tuesday morning left much of the Motor City in the dark. Alwaght- According to Russia Today, Power is slowly returning to Detroit, Michigan, after a massive power outage on Tuesday morning left much of the Motor City in the dark . As of 2:15 p.m., about 33 ...
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US 'reactive and weaker' under Obama: Potential 2016 GOP presidential contender
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US 'reactive and weaker' under Obama: Potential 2016 GOP presidential contender

Sunday 29 March 2015 ،
Michigan Republicans gathered at a local Republican Party annual fundraising dinner in suburban Detroit. “America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad,” Christie said. “When America doesn’t lead, bad people with bad intentions do lead,” he to ...
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US Airline Discriminates Muslim Employee for Refusing to Serve Alcohol
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US Airline Discriminates Muslim Employee for Refusing to Serve Alcohol

Sunday 6 September 2015 ،
Michigan, says that by law, employers must provide “reasonable accommodations” for an employee’s sincerely held religious beliefs –provided that accommodation doesn’t cause an “undue burden” for the employer. “In this situation, there has clearly been no undue burden on the employer, as this reques ...
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Islamophobia Upsurge in US Following Paris Attacks
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Islamophobia Upsurge in US Following Paris Attacks

Wednesday 18 November 2015 ،
Michigan Muslims, and innumerable hate messages sent online and by phone. Since that alert was issued, CAIR received reports about shots fired at a Connecticut mosque, the police shooting of an Oklahoma man after he threatened to kill Muslims, an assault on a North Carolina Uber driver after he was ...
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Anti-Racism Protests after killing of Black Teen in US
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Anti-Racism Protests after killing of Black Teen in US

Saturday 28 November 2015 ،
Michigan Avenue to traffic on the traditional Black Friday shopping day after the Thanksgiving holiday. Organizers said the rally, led by activist-politician the Rev. Jesse Jackson and several state elected officials, was a show of outrage over the October 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, 17, and wha ...
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Why Pentagon Sends Additional Special Forces to Syria?
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Why Pentagon Sends Additional Special Forces to Syria?

Sunday 3 April 2016 ،
Michigan, has written that it is very likely the Syrian government was trying to recapture the two large eastern provinces from ISIS to make the case to the world that it was now controlling 90 percent of the country’s territory and thus talking about a federal system made no sense. The Ameri ...
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Two Court Officials Shot Dead, Policeman Injured in US Shooting
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Two Court Officials Shot Dead, Policeman Injured in US Shooting

Tuesday 12 July 2016 ،
Michigan courthouse on Monday afternoon. Alwaght- In an escalation of gun violence in the US, a gunman was killed after shooting three people inside a western Michigan courthouse on Monday afternoon. Two bailiffs were fatally shot and one deputy sheriff suffered minor injuries in the attack. Shots ...
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Turkish Media Research Finds US Think Tank Links to Turkey’s Coup
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Turkish Media Research Finds US Think Tank Links to Turkey’s Coup

Thursday 4 August 2016 ،
Michigan, Lockheed Martin, an aerospace company producing military and intelligence equipment,  and the world's largest weapons contractor, Northrup Grumman Corporation, a producer of military aircrafts and other defense systems, and also active in, military information technology consultat ...
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Why is Trump Seeking Measures Against NAFTA?
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Why is Trump Seeking Measures Against NAFTA?

Thursday 17 November 2016 ،
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, and parts of New England region. Actually people of these states voted Trump to see him creating jobs for them. Trump said there was no compromise on his aim at reviewing— or even killing— NAFTA. He attacked Bill and Hillary Clinton, saying that the ...

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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