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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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Facebook Dismantles 300 Saudi-Linked Faked Accounts
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Facebook Dismantles 300 Saudi-Linked Faked Accounts

Sunday 4 August 2019
Qatar, the UAE, Egypt Palestine. The operation used fake accounts posing as those countries’ citizens and pages designed to look like local news outlets. More than $100,000 was spent on advertisements, Facebook said. “They would typically post in Arabic about regional news and politica ...
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UK Licensed $7.6bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-Led Coalition amid Yemen Aggression
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UK Licensed $7.6bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-Led Coalition amid Yemen Aggression

Wednesday 21 August 2019 ،
Qatar prior to its withdrawal from the coalition in 2017. Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating military campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the aim of bringing the government of Hadi back to power and crushing the country’s Houthi Ansarullah movement. ...
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Life with Coronavirus Must be Considered New Normal: WHO
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Life with Coronavirus Must be Considered New Normal: WHO

Tuesday 21 April 2020 ،
Qatar to lift restrictions on infection hotspot Qatar said it would lift a lockdown imposed since March 17 on a large section of a densely-populated working-class industrial zone that emerged as a hotspot for the outbreak in the country, gradually starting Wednesday. A government spokeswoman said ...
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Why Is Arab Cooperation Council Crisis Not Ending?
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Why Is Arab Cooperation Council Crisis Not Ending?

Sunday 7 June 2020 ،
Qatar which showed signs of embarking on a policy independent from Riyadh. Do has does not walk back from its path. Alwaght- The blockade imposed on Qatar by Riyadh that followed a crisis with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt has entered its fourth year as no signs of the solution to the un ...
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UAE at Heart of US Regional Strategy in Persian Gulf
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UAE at Heart of US Regional Strategy in Persian Gulf

Friday 16 October 2020 ،
Qatar will ensure to secure the interests of US arms manufacturers within the region. Recently, Qatar and the United States reaffirmed the implementation of a $25 billion military contract between the two sides. More importantly, the United States, which is deeply concerned about China's effort ...
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Shocking New Figures Show How Just Much the US Is Fueling the Violence in Yemen
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Shocking New Figures Show How Just Much the US Is Fueling the Violence in Yemen

Saturday 21 November 2020 ،
Qatar, and Bahrain, has deliberately attacked soft targets like hospitals and water facilities, carrying out the equivalent of one strike against such buildings every ten days since the fighting began. The fact that the United Nations, faced with such enormous human, environmental and migration dev ...
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Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft
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Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook, Microsoft

Wednesday 14 December 2022 ،
Qatar and Uzbekistan. The company is named after a parasitic Amazonian fish that is said (apocryphally) to swim up human urine streams and enter the body via the urethra. It is an apt analogy for a firm that spends its time finding security flaws in Android and iOS operating systems and browsers li ...
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Why Is UAE Returning to Syria?
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Why Is UAE Returning to Syria?

Saturday 21 January 2023 ،
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain staunchly supported armed opposition and terrorist groups fighting Damascus government in the devastating Civil War since 2011. However, since 2019, they revised their policy and shifted from hostility to intimacy to Damascus.  On the other hand, in response to ...
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What prompted Arab countries to reintroduce mandatory military service?
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What prompted Arab countries to reintroduce mandatory military service?

Tuesday 5 March 2024 ،
Qatar reinstated it in 2013, and the United Arab Emirates in 2014. In certain instances, such as Iraq, public discourse surrounding mandatory service remains ongoing and has advanced to the parliamentary level. The resurgence of compulsory military service now encompasses countries with varying hum ...
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Two Big Reasons for Pessimism: Is US-Saudi Defense Pact Really Too Close?
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Two Big Reasons for Pessimism: Is US-Saudi Defense Pact Really Too Close?

Sunday 12 May 2024 ،
Qatar University and non-resident senior member of the Middle East Security Initiative Group of the Atlantic Council, described the potential agreement with Saudi Arabia as vague and general.  Unofficial reports and media sources and political analysts suggest that Riyadh is seeking to commit ...

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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