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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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Great Leap Backward: America`s Illegal Wars on World
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Great Leap Backward: America`s Illegal Wars on World

Monday 20 June 2016
Peninsula. Can a sentient being meet such a grotesque claim with anything but infernal laughter? Help Saudi Arabia to fight its own creature? Are we stupid yet? $4 trillion dollars later, spent on the War-on-Terror/Humanitarian-R2P, the pattern of military destabilization of sovereign states procee ...
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Bahraini Regime Strips Citizenship of Prominent Cleric, Politician
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Bahraini Regime Strips Citizenship of Prominent Cleric, Politician

Monday 20 June 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force troops to Bahrain to help in the crackdown on peaceful protests. Saudi Arabia deployed about 1,000 troops with armored support, and the United Arab Emirates deployed about 500 police officers. More than a hundred people have been killed while hundreds more were sent behind ba ...
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EU Parliament, Amnesty Call on Bahrain End Crackdown on Dissent, Free Activists
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EU Parliament, Amnesty Call on Bahrain End Crackdown on Dissent, Free Activists

Saturday 9 July 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force troops to Bahrain to help in the crackdown on peaceful protests. Saudi Arabia deployed about 1,000 troops with armored support, and the United Arab Emirates deployed about 500 police officers. More than a hundred people have been killed while hundreds more were sent behind ba ...
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Saudi Regime Cornered Beast, Vicious over Defeats: Bahraini Opposition Leader
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Saudi Regime Cornered Beast, Vicious over Defeats: Bahraini Opposition Leader

Thursday 25 August 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force, the military side of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) and the western neighbor, Saudi Kingdom to help him stop the uprising. On 14 March 2011 the Force units led by Saudi Kingdom crossed King Fahd Causeway connecting the two countries over the Persian Gulf. Bahrai ...
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Key Features of Persian Gulf Arab States’ Security Environment
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Key Features of Persian Gulf Arab States’ Security Environment

Monday 10 October 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force, a joint Arab military force founded to protect its member states. Actually weak armies pushed the Arab countries to resort to forming a collective security alliance as part of the PGCC for self-defense. The Persian Gulf Arab countries since the beginning tried to use other r ...
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Forming Persian Gulf Arab Union: How Close is it to Reality?
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Forming Persian Gulf Arab Union: How Close is it to Reality?

Monday 28 November 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force, the military wing of the Cooperation Council. So, unlike the EU, forming this bloc was originated from foreign pressures rather than domestic need. Perhaps it can be said that this issue caused other two factors of the (P)GCC's failure to appear. Its members since indepe ...
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Secret Behind Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies’ Relative Stability
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Secret Behind Persian Gulf Arab Monarchies’ Relative Stability

Monday 26 December 2016 ،
Peninsula Shield Force, a collective military force designed to protect the Saudi-led (P)GCC governments when the need arises, and so brutally putting down the anti-regime demonstrations. The final point is that the autocratic Arab governments are heading to a course of major changes. In fact, neit ...
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Six Years after Revolution Bahraini People Lonelier than Ever
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Six Years after Revolution Bahraini People Lonelier than Ever

Tuesday 14 February 2017 ،
Peninsula Shield Forces, including forces from the Persian Gulf Arab states, made the idea of demands for reforms lose edge to the idea of regime change. The reason for continuation of the uncompromising spirit of the revolution is that the ruling Al Khalifa dynasty beholds the roots of the demonst ...
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What’s Behind Bahraini Regime’s Anti-Iranian Accusations?
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What’s Behind Bahraini Regime’s Anti-Iranian Accusations?

Wednesday 29 March 2017 ،
Peninsula Shield Forces which was established to react to foreign threats posed to the bloc’s member states. The number of foreign troops hit 5,000 gradually over the course six years of the revolution. The troops deployment to Bahrain saw an increase especially after Riyadh-backed terrorist ...
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Korean Peninsula on Brink of War: Russian Deputy FM
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Korean Peninsula on Brink of War: Russian Deputy FM

Monday 4 September 2017 ،
Peninsula issue may lead to a military outbreak. Alwaght- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister has warned that any slip-up on the Korean Peninsula issue may lead to a military outbreak. Speaking at a BRICS summit in China’s eastern city of Xiamen on Monday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei R ...

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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