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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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US Tests Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan
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US Tests Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan

Thursday 13 April 2017
of the deadly weapon. According to CNN, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday. The MOAB is also known as the mother of all bombs. A MOAB is a 21,000-pound (9,525 kg), GPS-guided munition that is America's most powerful non-nucle ...
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Reasons behind Taliban’s Recently-Heightened Violence in Afghanistan
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Reasons behind Taliban’s Recently-Heightened Violence in Afghanistan

Sunday 30 April 2017 ،
Mother of All Bombs (MOAB)— on a mountainous area of Achin district of Nangarhar province to deter ISIS fighters there, some sources inside Afghanistan dismissed such allegation, insisting that the huge explosion happened in a mine in the area. So the notion that the US presence in Afghanistan ...
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US Created ISIS, Uses It as Tool: Ex-Afghan President
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US Created ISIS, Uses It as Tool: Ex-Afghan President

Saturday 6 May 2017 ،
Mother of All Bombs,” saying it should be “DOAB.” The mother is a kind figure. She does not fit with a bomb, Karzai lamented. This should be the 'Deadliest of All Bombs.' The casualty is Afghan sovereignty, our soil and, most hurtfully, our dignity. How can they say they a ...
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Why Trump Chose Saudi Arabia as His first Foreign Visit?
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Why Trump Chose Saudi Arabia as His first Foreign Visit?

Tuesday 9 May 2017 ،
Mother Of All Bombs. The new strategy sees confrontation of Iran’s power gaining through having back of Saudi Arabia as it intervenes in the regional hotspots. Trump administration will further help Riyadh to force-stop front line progresses of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the forces ...
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US Airstrikes Kill 16 more Civilians in Afghanistan
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US Airstrikes Kill 16 more Civilians in Afghanistan

Saturday 12 August 2017 ،
Mother of All Bombs,” also known as the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) on district of Achin in southern Nangarhar Province. Although the bomb was said to kill over 90 IS fighters, its use has sparked a debate, with some blaming Washington for disproportionate use of force. The ...
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Year after US MOAB Strike, ISIS Growing Fast in Afghanistan
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Year after US MOAB Strike, ISIS Growing Fast in Afghanistan

Tuesday 17 April 2018 ،
Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB, the huge bomb allegedly targeted the caves where ISIS militants were hiding in Achin District of Nangarhar province in the south of the country. Technically known as GBU-43B, the bomb weighs 11 tons and is allegedly the most destructive among the non-nuclear bombs buil ...
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Banned Weapons: Wars Provide US with Testing Grounds
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Banned Weapons: Wars Provide US with Testing Grounds

Tuesday 16 October 2018 ،
Mother of All Bombs”, or MOAB, the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb in what many experts condemned as a violation of international law. In Syria, where a war has been on since 2011, the US admits that they used banned weapons to protect their local allies. In 2017, their jets bombed Raq ...

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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