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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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UN Commission Set to Inspect HR Violations against Myanmar Muslims
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UN Commission Set to Inspect HR Violations against Myanmar Muslims

Saturday 3 December 2016
. The commission, led by the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has decided to fly to Myanmar's western-most state, Rakhine, to probe human rights violations. Human Right groups say local officials have been distorting the weight of the allegations, with Rohingya groups announcing four t ...
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Terrorist Attack Kills 24 Iraqis in Mosul
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Terrorist Attack Kills 24 Iraqis in Mosul

Saturday 3 December 2016 ،
. Terrorists detonated a bomb placed inside a tanker near the gathering of several civilians on Saturday. In another attack also the ISIS terrorist group launched an attack using two car bombs on the Kanaos Village in the south of Qayyarah, killing two soldiers and injuring 29 others. Iraqi force ...
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Saudi Arabia Removes Labor Minister amid Protests
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Saudi Arabia Removes Labor Minister amid Protests

Saturday 3 December 2016 ،
. Mufarreji al-Hagbani was removed from his ministry only after seven months in office as he failed to solve the issue of unpaid foreign workers. Through a royal decree, Saudi king Salman introduced Ali al-Ghifaidh to replace Hagbani on Friday. The government is yet to provide any official justifi ...
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Britain Not Sent Gram of Flour to Aleppo: Russia
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Britain Not Sent Gram of Flour to Aleppo: Russia

Saturday 3 December 2016 ،
. Responding to British spokeswoman who accused Russia of stopping aid deliveries to the troubled city of Aleppo, Russian Defense ministry said London has sent no aid for the country. “It seems that the UK government has lost an objective view of what is happening in Syria, including Aleppo, ...
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Syrian Army Liberates 60% of Aleppo from Militants
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Syrian Army Liberates 60% of Aleppo from Militants

Saturday 3 December 2016 ،
. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that the militant groups have lost more grounds on the eastern parts of the northern city of Aleppo as the army closes in on them. The Syrian army and allied forces have captured large areas of terrorist-held eastern Aleppo in th ...
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Foreign Forces Wage Alternative War on Aleppo
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Foreign Forces Wage Alternative War on Aleppo

Sunday 4 December 2016 ،
Northern Province of Aleppo. As the Syrian army advances on Aleppo, international and regional countries that have been backing militants since the onset of war in the Arab country are doing their best to stop army through mediums, namely the media, international bodies that are supposed to end con ...
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How Riyadh Chase Dream of Self-Protection as US Support Wavers?
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How Riyadh Chase Dream of Self-Protection as US Support Wavers?

Sunday 4 December 2016 ،
. Alwaght- The US-Saudi relations currently continue in a an array of fields including the so-called joint counterterrorist efforts, modern weapons deals, trade exchange, investment, and also education, and are actually well-established. However, there are some rifts on domestic, regional, and inter ...
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Iraqi Army Liberates 4 More Villages near Mosul
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Iraqi Army Liberates 4 More Villages near Mosul

Sunday 4 December 2016 ،
. The army’s 16th Infantry Division recaptured the village of Gara Tepe, and hoisted the Iraqi national flag over a number of buildings there, the commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, said in a press statement. Yarallah added that Iraqi governmen ...
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Militants Attack Civilians after Losing Ground in Aleppo
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Militants Attack Civilians after Losing Ground in Aleppo

Sunday 4 December 2016 ،
. The terrorist group of Fatah Halab fired several missiles towards the government-held Mogambo and Al-Mohafaza districts in western Aleppo after losing a lot of ground to the Syrian Arab Army. The mortar attack killed at least three civilians in the western parts of the city, military sources sai ...
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Yemeni Army Retaliates Saudi Airstrike, Attacks Border Posts
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Yemeni Army Retaliates Saudi Airstrike, Attacks Border Posts

Sunday 4 December 2016 ،
. Alwaght- Yemeni army and popular forces retaliated recent round of Saudi airstrikes against their country by attacking a number of border posts south of Saudi Arabia. During the attacks, snipers of the popular forces managed to shoot and kill four Saudi forces in military bases that were cro ...

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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.