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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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Bin Salman’s Betting on Wrong Horse Normalizing Ties with Tel Aviv
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Bin Salman’s Betting on Wrong Horse Normalizing Ties with Tel Aviv

Saturday 11 June 2022
Qahtani with an order from bin Salman.  Mujahed account added that the office employs 12 people of various Arab nationalities, with an annual budget of $4 million.  The selection of al-Qahtani as a confidante of bin Salman in his normalization case indicates the crown prince's seriou ...
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Saudi Regime Sentences Woman to 45 Years in Prison for Social Media Posts
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Saudi Regime Sentences Woman to 45 Years in Prison for Social Media Posts

Wednesday 31 August 2022 ،
Qahtani was convicted likely within last week by the Saudi Specialized Criminal Court on charges of using the internet to tear the (Saudi) social fabric and violating public order by using social media, Washington-based DAWN organization said in a statement, citing court documents. DAWN said little ...
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Saudi Woman Jailed for Challenging ‘Justice’ of King Salman, Crown Prince
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Saudi Woman Jailed for Challenging ‘Justice’ of King Salman, Crown Prince

Wednesday 7 September 2022 ،
Qahtani had been convicted by the so-called Specialized Criminal Court on charges of “using the internet to tear [Saudi Arabia’s] social fabric” and “violating public order” via her two anonymous Twitter accounts. Newly revealed court records show the court ruled that ...
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Bin Salman Signed Deal with US General to Train Saudi Hackers Months before Khashoggi Murder
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Bin Salman Signed Deal with US General to Train Saudi Hackers Months before Khashoggi Murder

Wednesday 28 September 2022 ،
Qahtani at a ceremony in Washington, DC in early 2018. “The strategic agreement will ensure [Saudi Arabia is] benefiting from the experience of an advisory team comprising senior officers who had held senior positions in the Cyber Command of the US Department of Defense,” Qahtani&r ...
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Saudi Regime Sentences 3 Tribesmen to Death for Resisting Eviction
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Saudi Regime Sentences 3 Tribesmen to Death for Resisting Eviction

Saturday 8 October 2022 ،
Qahtani, a mother of five, were given lengthy sentences of 34 years and 45 years respectively over tweets critical of the Saudi government. According to the rights organization, also Osama Khaled, a writer, translator, and computer programmer, was sentenced to 32 years over allegations relating to ...
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Saudi Regime Sentences to Death Critic University Professor
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Saudi Regime Sentences to Death Critic University Professor

Sunday 15 January 2023 ،
Qahtani, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for using Twitter. The Saudi regime is also accused of ordering the 2018 brutal murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a US-Saudi citizen, who used to be a vocal critic of the Saudi royalty. Khashoggi was dismembered during a visit to the ...
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HTS Secret Contacts with Coalition: Will Idlib-based Terror Group Get US as New Boss?
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HTS Secret Contacts with Coalition: Will Idlib-based Terror Group Get US as New Boss?

Monday 21 August 2023 ،
Qahtani, who is one of the distinguished leaders of the group. Reports further said that he was for sometime jailed in Harem town in Idlib, then he was put under house arrest under tight security measures in the headquarters of the terrorist group at the request of Madhar al-Wais, a close friend of ...
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Saudi Court Sentences Media Activists to Decades in Prison over Critical Posts
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Saudi Court Sentences Media Activists to Decades in Prison over Critical Posts

Wednesday 4 October 2023 ،
Qahtani to 45 years in imprison for the alleged use of the internet “to break the social fabric.” In 2022, Amnesty International said 15 people had been sentenced to between 10 and 45 years in Saudi jails for their peaceful online activities. Ali al-Ahmed, founder of the Institute ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Saturday 14 December 2024 ،
Qahtani, was assassinated six months after his arrest on charges of collaborating with foreign parties. In December 2023, Abu Ahmed Zakour, another senior HTS figure who had previously led the Al-Nusra Front in Aleppo and was responsible for the organization's public relations, defected from the ...
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Will Hadhramaut Battle Change Yemen Map?
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Will Hadhramaut Battle Change Yemen Map?

Sunday 7 December 2025 ،
Qahtani. The deal included redeploying the HTC and HEF near oil company facilities and integrating local Hadhrami protection forces into a unified structure to guard the companies. This indicates the theater is shifting from ground combat to a security realignment centered on managing oil resources, ...

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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.