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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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Iraq, Possible Options for PM, President, Parliament Speaker Posts
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Iraq, Possible Options for PM, President, Parliament Speaker Posts

Monday 20 December 2021
Mohammed al-Halbousi remaining in the post for another term. The Kurds, too, announced their opposition to Barham Salih remaining in the post of president.  Rasoul Radhi, a member of the State of Law coalition, said that the current leaders would not be given the posts again. Therefore, Iraq s ...
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Iraq Parliament Storming: Playing in Enemy Game
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Iraq Parliament Storming: Playing in Enemy Game

Sunday 31 July 2022 ،
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for the prime minister post. The allied groups threw their support behind al-Sudani in efforts to end the months-long limbo. Only a few days after the move, groups that seeks continuation of political instability in the country began to put the skids under the government form ...
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Sadr’s Supporters Launch Sit-in after Storming Iraqi Parliament
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Sadr’s Supporters Launch Sit-in after Storming Iraqi Parliament

Sunday 31 July 2022 ،
Mohammed al-Sudani for premier, also occupied the parliament building on Wednesday and left the area two hours later upon the cleric's orders. Sadrist lawmakers quit their seats at the Iraqi parliament last month, in a move viewed as an attempt to pressure their rivals into fast-tracking the fo ...
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Iraqis Need to Abandon Current Lose-lose Game
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Iraqis Need to Abandon Current Lose-lose Game

Tuesday 2 August 2022 ،
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani for the prime minister post, storming the parliament building by Muqtada al-Sadr supporters and seizing it in recent days showed that the country is far from a solution to current crisis and not only there are serious obstacles to cabinet formation but also conditions could s ...

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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