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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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What Factors Destabilize Afghanistan?
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What Factors Destabilize Afghanistan?

Monday 14 August 2017
Mirza Ulang village of the province. Many sides deemed the execution as amounting to a war crime. But Mirza Ulang killing is not the only terrorist crime in Afghanistan’s serial tragedies. During the past three months at least 20 small and big blasts ripped through different parts of the war- ...
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3 Mass Graves Uncovered in Already Taliban- Held Mirza Ulang, Afghanistan
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3 Mass Graves Uncovered in Already Taliban- Held Mirza Ulang, Afghanistan

Wednesday 16 August 2017 ،
Mirza Ulang in northern Sar-e Pul province, and killed dozens of civilians of the Hzara populated village. Hazaras are overwhelmingly Twelver Shiite Muslims and make up the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. The horrific news came after the country’s army announced that the village ha ...

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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