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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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North Korea’s Leader Receives ’Excellent’ Letter  from Trump
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North Korea’s Leader Receives ’Excellent’ Letter from Trump

Sunday 23 June 2019
Moon Jae-in at the Group of 20 summit in Japan on Friday, with analysts saying he could pass the US president a message from Kim about the nuclear negotiations. Trump has cast off a more-often-than-not bellicose rhetoric and recently adopted an amicable tone towards Kim, saying earlier th ...
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Trump Meets North Korea’s Leader at Demilitarized Zone
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Trump Meets North Korea’s Leader at Demilitarized Zone

Sunday 30 June 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in on Sunday ahead of the meeting. A day earlier, he joined a press conference with Moon, saying he had sent out a last-minute invitation to Kim for the meeting over Twitter toward the end of his trip to the South. “I’ll be meeting with Chairman Kim. I look forward t ...
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Was Interest in Peace behind Trump’s Kim Meeting?
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Was Interest in Peace behind Trump’s Kim Meeting?

Monday 1 July 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in of South Korea in Seoul Trump said that he was not in a hurry to lift the nuclear sanctions from the North. On the other side, Pyongyang is aware that Washington’s delay of a conclusion to the talks is deliberate and so its leaders move ahead with two tactics simultaneously. First ...
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Iran Wants Probe into Israeli Kidnap of Its Diplomats in 1982
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Iran Wants Probe into Israeli Kidnap of Its Diplomats in 1982

Friday 5 July 2019 ،
Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday the four Iranian diplomats kidnapped in Lebanon back in 1982 are still being held in the Israeli regime’s prisons, calling for pressing Tel Aviv and its sponsors to release them. Alwaght- Iranian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday the four Iranian diplo ...
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Beijing Orders Islamic Symbols Taken Down
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Beijing Orders Islamic Symbols Taken Down

Wednesday 31 July 2019 ،
Authorities in Chinese capital ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding national effort to "Sinicize" its Muslim population. Alwaght- Authorities in Chinese capital ordered halal restaurants and food st ...
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South Korea Retaliates Against Japan in Trade Row
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South Korea Retaliates Against Japan in Trade Row

Monday 12 August 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in, said Japan's economic retaliation is not only intrinsically unfair, but unjust because it stems from Japan's colonial-era abuses. Still, South Koreans should not react emotionally and should maintain constructive ties with the Japanese people, Moon said at a meeting of senior a ...
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North Korea Launches Two Missiles After Rejecting Talks with South Korea
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North Korea Launches Two Missiles After Rejecting Talks with South Korea

Friday 16 August 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in urged North Korea and the United States to resume denuclearization talks. Those talks have been stalled since the failure of the last summit between Kim and his American counterpart Donald Trump who has so far refused to ease sanctions on North Korea. The North is banned ...
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China, North Korea ‘To Boost Military Ties’
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China, North Korea ‘To Boost Military Ties’

Sunday 18 August 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in as a “shameless man”who “mentions ‘talks’ between North and South while playing out war scenarios that plan to destroy most of our armies in 90 days.” China is routinely annoyed by the US sending its warships and planes to the South China Sea where Be ...
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North Korea Test-Fires 2 More Missiles
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North Korea Test-Fires 2 More Missiles

Saturday 24 August 2019 ،
Moon Jae-in. Pyongyang has long condemned the joint exercises as a rehearsal for invasion of the North’s territories. The US stations nearly 30,000 troops in South Korea to purportedly defend it from its northern neighbor. North Korea, currently under multiple rounds of sanctions by the Unit ...
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US Militarization of Space Forces Russia to Counterbalance Threat: Putin
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US Militarization of Space Forces Russia to Counterbalance Threat: Putin

Thursday 5 December 2019 ،
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the growing militarization of space by the US and its allies was forcing Moscow to counterbalance this threat Alwaght- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that the growing militarization of space by the US and its allies was forcing Moscow to counterb ...

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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