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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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Turkish President Insists on Military Op in Northern Syria
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Turkish President Insists on Military Op in Northern Syria

Tuesday 9 January 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday his country will continue its military operations in northern Syria with aim of repelling Kurdish militants away from its borders. Alwaght- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday his country will continue its military operations ...
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US, Britain Wary of Russia’s Comeback at Global Scene
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US, Britain Wary of Russia’s Comeback at Global Scene

Friday 16 March 2018 ،
The resurgent power of Russia as a global power under Vladimir Putin has forced Western powers to initiate moves aimed at undermining Russia. Alwaght- The resurgence of Russia as a global power under Vladimir Putin has forced Western powers especially the US and Britain to initiate moves aimed ...
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Pakistan Warns India against Military Action Following Kashmir Bombing
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Pakistan Warns India against Military Action Following Kashmir Bombing

Tuesday 19 February 2019 ،
Jury and Executioner... what sort of justice is this, Imran Khan questioned. It is easy to start a war but difficult to end it. I want to ask India if they want to live in the past. It's not in our interest that somebody from here goes out to do terrorism, nor that somebody comes here and does ...
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Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Govt Spied on Him for Over a Year
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Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Govt Spied on Him for Over a Year

Monday 22 April 2019 ،
Like the proverbial “shot heard round the world,” the U.K.’s arrest and imprisonment of publisher and journalist Julian Assange officially signaled the Western world’s war on a free press. The Australian who founded WikiLeaks, but stepped down as editor-in-chief last year, was ousted from the Ecuado ...
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Judge Validates Trump Impeachment Inquiry, Orders Mueller Document Release
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Judge Validates Trump Impeachment Inquiry, Orders Mueller Document Release

Saturday 26 October 2019 ،
A US judge has validated on Friday the legality of the impeachment inquiry launched by the Democrats against President Donald Trump and ordered his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of a report by former special counsel Robert Mueller who investigated the alleged Russian interference in ...
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Trump Grants Pardons to Army Officers in War Crimes Cases
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Trump Grants Pardons to Army Officers in War Crimes Cases

Saturday 16 November 2019 ،
US President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned two Army officers accused of war crimes in Afghanistan and restored the rank of a Navy SEAL platoon commander who was demoted for actions in Iraq, a move critics have said would undermine military justice and send a message that battlefield atrocities wil ...
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Iraqi Fury As Trump Pardons Blackwater War Criminals
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Iraqi Fury As Trump Pardons Blackwater War Criminals

Sunday 27 December 2020 ،
Iraqi people, parliament, and government responded to the pardons with condemnations. Alwaght- Trump's measures in the closing days of his presidency are still controversial.  Recently, he issued pardons to some of Blackwater military contractors who committed crimes during the Iraq campai ...
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CIA Treatment of Detainee ‘Shame for US’: Military Jury
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CIA Treatment of Detainee ‘Shame for US’: Military Jury

Monday 1 November 2021 ،
Seven senior US military officers have condemned the CIA’s brutal treatment of a detainee, calling it a "shame for the US government," The New York Times reported. Alwaght- Seven senior US military officers have condemned the CIA’s brutal treatment of a detainee, calling it a shame for the US ...
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American Charged with Torturing Worker in Iraqi Kurdistan, Trafficking Arms
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American Charged with Torturing Worker in Iraqi Kurdistan, Trafficking Arms

Sunday 20 February 2022 ،
A court in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region charged an American man with torturing a worker while he was managing a project to construct a weapons factory in 2015. Alwaght- A court in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region charged an American man with torturing a worker while he was mana ...

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