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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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Belgium’s First Black Mayor Demands Apology for Nation’s Colonial Past
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Belgium’s First Black Mayor Demands Apology for Nation’s Colonial Past

Saturday 20 June 2020
Belgium is due a reckoning with its colonial past, and things left unsaid must now be discussed, argues the Congolese-born 72-year-old who became the country’s first black mayor. Belgium is due a reckoning with its colonial past, and things left unsaid must now be discussed, argues the Congolese-bor ...
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Will Sutlan Haitham’s Economic Aid Package Save Muscat’s Neutral Policy
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Will Sutlan Haitham’s Economic Aid Package Save Muscat’s Neutral Policy

Thursday 29 October 2020 ،
National media have recently reported that the sultan has ordered the designing of a four-year financial program from 2020 to 2024 including an increase in the non-oil incomes. Reports also suggest that he by the program eyes establishment of a unified national system to offer social security to the ...
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What Did Take Bin Zayed to Paris?
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What Did Take Bin Zayed to Paris?

Saturday 18 September 2021 ،
National Accord (GNA), in Libya.  In the current conditions, Turkey has become a headache for France, and Paris neither wants close and intensive relations with this country in NATO and its accession as a member of the European Union, nor has the ability to ignore this country. This has led Pa ...
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Capturing ISIS’s Second-In-Command Highlights Baghdad-Damascus Partnership Need
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Capturing ISIS’s Second-In-Command Highlights Baghdad-Damascus Partnership Need

Thursday 14 October 2021 ،
Iraqi government said it arrested ISIS’s second most powerful man outside Iraq’s borders. The arrest calls attention to the need for Iraqi-Syrian cooperation. Alwaght- While the main focus of the media and political observers was the Iraqi parliamentary elections, the Iraqi Prime Minister Musta ...
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Boris Johnson’s Disgraceful Silence on Indian PM’s Anti-Muslim Campaign
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Boris Johnson’s Disgraceful Silence on Indian PM’s Anti-Muslim Campaign

Sunday 24 April 2022 ،
Museum in the United States is on record as stating that India is the second most likely country to experience mass killings in 2022. Total silence about this from the British government, and the accompanying press party. Threat of genocide To be fair, Boris Johnson is in India to bring home a tra ...
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Iran Commemorating National Day against British Colonialism
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Iran Commemorating National Day against British Colonialism

Saturday 3 September 2022 ،
Iran is marking the national day against British colonialism in Iran, remembering the 108th anniversary of the martyrdom of Rais Ali Delvari, a great national hero and independence fighter who led the anti-colonial struggle in southern Iran. Iran is marking the national day against British coloniali ...
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What’s Behind UAE Plan to Teach Holocaust in Schools?
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What’s Behind UAE Plan to Teach Holocaust in Schools?

Tuesday 10 January 2023 ،
National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gvir last week was the first adventure of the hardliners in the new cabinet and its repeat can spark a new war. Emirati leaders have closed their eyes to all these crimes to avoid disruption of normalization process.  The UAE does not even mention the Ameri ...
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Half a Million To Strike across UK as Talks Go ‘Backwards’
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Half a Million To Strike across UK as Talks Go ‘Backwards’

Wednesday 1 February 2023 ،
National Education Union (NEU) take strike action in pursuit of a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. Schools in Fife and Orkney in Scotland will also be on strike on Wednesday, as part of rolling regional action by the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country’s largest teachin ...
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More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders
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More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders

Tuesday 27 June 2023 ،
National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2016: “A great nation does not hide its history; it faces its flaws and corrects them.” Of the 100 congressional lawmakers, 24 responded to the materials Reuters delivered. Another nine said they had no comment. The remaining 67 ...
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From Damascus to Gaza: Turkish Neo-Ottomanism Vs. Axis of Resistance Discourse
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From Damascus to Gaza: Turkish Neo-Ottomanism Vs. Axis of Resistance Discourse

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
National Intelligence Organization (MIT), that Turkey caused bloodshed and displacement in Syria during Syrian civil war by deploying terrorists to Syria and turning into a corridor providing passage for terrorists to Syria from around the world. In the middle of internal conflict, Turkey purchased ...

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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