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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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ISIS Afghanistan Status As Its Leader Captured By Kabul
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ISIS Afghanistan Status As Its Leader Captured By Kabul

Tuesday 7 April 2020
Nangarhar province’s officials said that Abu Saad Erhabi, the commander of the ISIS' Afghanistan branch, was killed in the Khogiani District of the province. He was the fourth leader of the ISIS Afghanistan branch to be killed in the country.  Its first leader, Hafez Saeed Khan, was ...
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Will Participatory Government Help End Afghanistan Impasse?
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Will Participatory Government Help End Afghanistan Impasse?

Sunday 26 April 2020 ،
Nangarhar Province Gul Agha Sherzai, Vice President Amrullah Saleh, General Abdulla Rashid Dostum, and former Vice President Ahmad Zia Massoud, and also some affiliates of Hizb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are members. This shows the diverse ethnopolitical makeup of the alliance.  Some ...
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Afghan President Orders Military to Switch to Offensive Mode
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Afghan President Orders Military to Switch to Offensive Mode

Wednesday 13 May 2020 ،
Nangarhar Province, killing at least 24 people and injuring 68 others. Daesh terrorist group took responsibility for the funeral bloodshed. President Ghani pointed the finger at both the Taliban and Daesh. Today, we witnessed terrorist attacks by the Taliban and Daesh groups on a hospital in Kabu ...
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Ghani-Taliban Wrestling Over “Interim Government”
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Ghani-Taliban Wrestling Over “Interim Government”

Thursday 14 January 2021 ،
Nangarhar on January 7, Ashraf said that the negotiating team of the government concentrates on leadership transition through elections. Criticizing the Taliban approach to the peace process, the president said: “Taliban need to understand that Today’s Afghanistan is not that of the 1990 ...
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Wave of Bomb Hit Afghan Capital, 3 Killed
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Wave of Bomb Hit Afghan Capital, 3 Killed

Tuesday 2 February 2021 ،
Nangarhar’s governor, as saying. The increase in violence in Afghanistan comes even as the government and the Taliban militant group are involved in bilateral talks to end fighting. The two sides reached a preliminary deal last December that sets out rules for further talks. It was the first ...
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30 Taliban Militants, 5 Afghan Security Forces Killed in Separate Blasts
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30 Taliban Militants, 5 Afghan Security Forces Killed in Separate Blasts

Saturday 13 February 2021 ،
Nangarhar province.  
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Is ISIS Returning or Being Returned to Afghanistan?
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Is ISIS Returning or Being Returned to Afghanistan?

Tuesday 2 March 2021 ،
Nangarhar Provincial Council, said that ISIS is not over and that with its recent recruitment, it is trying to build presence in other Afghanistan districts.  The AP also reported that ISIS is fighting in a number of towns in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. The fighting has displaced hundreds o ...
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US, Allies Drop 46 Bombs Per Day for 20 Years: Report
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US, Allies Drop 46 Bombs Per Day for 20 Years: Report

Sunday 7 March 2021 ،
Nangarhar Province in April 2017. Many of the Biden administration’s early moves signal that there will be more continuation of than rupture with previous U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. While Biden had pledged to end the U.S. role in Yemen, the State Department’s qualifying lan ...
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Pakistani Diplomat in Iran to Discuss Afghanistan Developments
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Pakistani Diplomat in Iran to Discuss Afghanistan Developments

Monday 15 March 2021 ،
Nangarhar, amid the chaos that has plagued the Central Asian nation since the United States’ 2001 invasion. The invasion toppled the Taliban, but the militants regrouped soon and currently have a presence in much of the country. The Taliban cite continued US-led military prese ...
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Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
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Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State

Monday 28 June 2021 ،
Nangarhar Province (while quietly leaving his own in Kandahar Province untouched). But all the U.S. saw was a local politician seemingly committed to stamping out an illegal drug trade. They therefore showered him with money and other privileges. “We literally gave the guy $10 million in cash ...

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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