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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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Al-Qaeda Leader Pledged Allegiance to New Taliban Leader
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Al-Qaeda Leader Pledged Allegiance to New Taliban Leader

Saturday 11 June 2016
Mullah Mohammad Omar, who died in 2013. Notably, the Taliban only confirmed Omar's death in 2015. Mansour first joined the Taliban in 1995. Previous reports said he was killed in a battle last year, though those were denied by the Afghan government. Some Afghan insurgent commanders have broken ...
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Taliban Intensifies Moves in Northern Afghanistan
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Taliban Intensifies Moves in Northern Afghanistan

Wednesday 15 June 2016 ،
Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of Taliban, which would result in complicated peace process, without doubt would heighten the insecurity in the country.
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Why Peace Unattainable In Afghanistan?
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Why Peace Unattainable In Afghanistan?

Saturday 18 June 2016 ،
Mullah Omar, has seen an intensification. The group even for the first time in a decade has managed to seize control of some large and significant cities. In such conditions talk of peace process makes no sense in practice. What is dominant now is the war which is now including the whole of Afghani ...
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Questions Linger as World Marks Fifteen Years after 9/11
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Questions Linger as World Marks Fifteen Years after 9/11

Monday 12 September 2016 ،
Mullah Omar. After the ouster of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the US and Britain invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks, the lives of almost everyone in the world have been impacted by the incidents on that day. Since then, there has been an unprecedent ...
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Why Kunduz so Significant for Taliban?
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Why Kunduz so Significant for Taliban?

Thursday 6 October 2016 ،
Mullah Omar has been grappling with a leadership crisis as well as internal divides and splits. If there was a strong central government in the country, the multi-factioned Taliban could be terminated very soon. But now in the absence of a stable and powerful central Afghan government, it is the ins ...
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Afghan Taliban Leader Taught, Preached in Pakistan: Reuters
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Afghan Taliban Leader Taught, Preached in Pakistan: Reuters

Monday 10 October 2016 ،
Mullah Akhtar Mansour, in another part of Pakistan, a strike that infuriated Islamabad but reflected growing impatience over what Washington sees as ambivalence toward its enemies. Five years earlier, U.S. forces stormed a compound near the Pakistani capital and killed al Qaeda's leader Osama b ...
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US Entered Renewed Taliban-Afghanistan Secret Talks in Qatar
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US Entered Renewed Taliban-Afghanistan Secret Talks in Qatar

Tuesday 18 October 2016 ،
Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, brother of Mullah Omar, the former Taliban chief who led the movement from its earliest days until his death in 2013. The new talks were held in September and October in Qatar where Taliban was granted permission to set up an office in the capital Doha in 2013. Previous ...
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Tel Aviv-Erbil Relations: Reality or Illusion?
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Tel Aviv-Erbil Relations: Reality or Illusion?

Thursday 1 December 2016 ،
Mullah Mustafa Barzani had started a deadly and rather long war to obtain independence of Kurdistan from the central Iraqi government. The Israelis in the meantime negotiated with the Kurds, offering backing for them as they struggled to build an independent state. Mullah Mustafa Barzani welcomed t ...
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Four Reasons Why is Afghan Military So Inefficient?
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Four Reasons Why is Afghan Military So Inefficient?

Thursday 27 April 2017 ،
Mullah Omar, Taliban’s leader, that caused wide split among different factions of the militant group. The question that presents itself is that why is the Afghan army inefficient in doing its duties. Following are four reasons why the country’s army is so weak: 1. Entrenched corruptio ...
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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 ،
Mullah Omar and then Mullah Mansur. Now Taliban group has a self-proclaimed emir in most of the Afghanistan provinces, and has established its own judiciary, which people sometimes refer to it to settle their cases. Actually, the leadership of Taliban is now far from being centralized as it was bef ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.