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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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Three Police Officers Killed in South Egypt Clashes
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Three Police Officers Killed in South Egypt Clashes

Sunday 8 February 2015
Minya have left three police officers dead and two others injured. Alwaght-Clashes between Egyptian security forces and gunmen in the southern city of Minya have left three police officers dead and two others injured. An Egyptian security official said Saturday that the police officers were conducti ...
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Egypt Brotherhood Leader’s Death Sentence Struck Down
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Egypt Brotherhood Leader’s Death Sentence Struck Down

Thursday 12 February 2015 ،
Minya, killing a police officer and eight others.  The Minya court of first instance had initially sentenced several hundred supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi to death. The Cassation Court accepted the appeals filed by only 36 of 136 defendants against their June sentence in the case ...
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271 Muslim Brotherhood Members to Military Court
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271 Muslim Brotherhood Members to Military Court

Saturday 28 February 2015 ،
Minya province, in August 2013 . According to reports, no date has yet been set for the trial . Judicial sources say Egyptian prosecutors are permitted to refer cases to military courts in cases involving charges of vandalizing public property . In October 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al ...
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Brief History of Land of The Mummy
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Brief History of Land of The Mummy

Friday 15 April 2016 ،
Minya. Upon Akhenaten death the old priesthood at Thebes destroyed all signs of his rule and religion and the throne was passed on to his son-in-law, the boy king Tutankhamun. Best remembered today for the fabulous and pristine treasures uncovered when his tomb was discovered in 1922, he ruled for o ...
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Iranian Reporter Killed in Embattled Aleppo, Syria
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Iranian Reporter Killed in Embattled Aleppo, Syria

Saturday 12 November 2016 ،
Minyan district in the western part of Aleppo. A number of correspondents affiliated to Iranian news stations have fallen victim to the conflict in Syria in the past. In August 2015, Iranian reporter Mohammad-Hassan Hosseini suffered facial injury in a mortar attack by militants in ...
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Terrorists Use Chemical Weapons to Attack Syrian Civilians in Aleppo
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Terrorists Use Chemical Weapons to Attack Syrian Civilians in Aleppo

Monday 14 November 2016 ،
Minyan in west Aleppo with a toxic attack, injuring eight people and on October 31 they hit the city’s suburbs injuring 48 more. Since March 2011, Syria has been hit by foreign-backed militancy it blames on some Western states and their regional allies. Backed by Russian air cover, the Syrian ...
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28 Egyptian Christians Killed in Bus Attack
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28 Egyptian Christians Killed in Bus Attack

Friday 26 May 2017 ،
Minya province, about 220km south of the capital. Security forces are pursuing the attackers arrived in three pick-up trucks and opened fire on the vehicles carrying the Christians before fleeing from the scent. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. They used automatic weapons, Essam ...
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Egypt Bombs Militants’ Training Camp in Libya
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Egypt Bombs Militants’ Training Camp in Libya

Saturday 27 May 2017 ،
Minya province. Sisi went on to say that an airstrike against the camps was being conducted as he spoke, adding that the carnage would not be left unanswered. According to a statement by the Egyptian Interior Ministry, masked assailants in three pickups stopped the vehicle and opened fire on it as ...
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ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Egyptian Christians
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ISIS Claims Deadly Attack on Egyptian Christians

Saturday 27 May 2017 ،
Minya governorate. At least 22 others were injured in the attack. The shooting happened as the victims were traveling from Beni Suef Province to the Coptic Orthodox Anba Samuel Monastery near the southern city of Minya, 250km (155 miles) south of Cairo. Egypt’s armed forces carried out inten ...
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West to Blame for Terrorism, Crises in West Asia, North Africa: Russia FM
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West to Blame for Terrorism, Crises in West Asia, North Africa: Russia FM

Tuesday 30 May 2017 ،
Minya Province that killed 28 people, including children. The terror assault prompted the Egyptian military to carry out several airstrikes against purported terrorist training camps in neighboring Libya, which is grappling with violence since a NATO military intervention in the country following i ...

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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