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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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Myanmar Regime Kills Five Rohingya Muslims, Including Child, in Rakhine

Myanmar Regime Kills Five Rohingya Muslims, Including Child, in Rakhine

Monday 2 March 2020
Rakhine, where state-sponsored violence has prevailed in recent years. Alwaght- Myanmarese Buddhist regime has killed at least five Rohingya Muslims, including a child, in western state of Rakhine, where state-sponsored violence has prevailed in recent years. A regional lawmaker and residents said ...
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Rohingya Refugees Mark Anniversary of Exodus to Bangladesh

Rohingya Refugees Mark Anniversary of Exodus to Bangladesh

Tuesday 25 August 2020 ،
Rakhine State to neighboring Bangladesh — joining more than 200,000 already there — following a military-led crackdown in 2017 that the UN has said was perpetrated with “genocidal intent.” Thousands were killed, and many others were raped, tortured, or arrested in the crackd ...
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Myanmar Army Acknowledges ‘Possible Wider Patterns’ of Violence against Rohingya

Myanmar Army Acknowledges ‘Possible Wider Patterns’ of Violence against Rohingya

Wednesday 16 September 2020 ،
Rakhine in 2016-2017.” “Allegations regarding villages in the Maungdaw area are included in the scope of this wider investigation,” it said, referring to a district on the border with Bangladesh It said the military-run Office of the Judge Advocate General had reviewed a report b ...
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Bangladesh Sends More Rohingya Refugees to Remote Islands

Bangladesh Sends More Rohingya Refugees to Remote Islands

Tuesday 2 February 2021 ،
Rakhine State following waves of attacks by Myanmar's army and Buddhist mobs. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were violently uprooted in the months that followed, driven by a brutal military crackdown that killed thousands of them. What happened in August 2017 was so horrific that the UN call ...
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Deadly Gunfight Erupts after Myanmar Junta Convoy Hit by Roadside Bomb

Deadly Gunfight Erupts after Myanmar Junta Convoy Hit by Roadside Bomb

Sunday 19 September 2021 ،
Rakhine state. The bloody military campaign in 2017 alone sent some 740,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into neighboring Bangladesh, carrying accounts of rape, mass killings, and arson attacks. International efforts to find a solution to continuous crises in Myanmar have so far ended inconc ...
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Rohingyas Victims of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India

Rohingyas Victims of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India

Tuesday 26 October 2021 ،
Rakhine state started in October 2016. Since then, tens of thousands have relocated to neighboring India, in a bid to escape persecution, murder, arson and rape by the Burmese military backed by the country’s majority Buddhist extremists. The savagery in Rakhine was described by the United Na ...
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Bangladesh Sends 2000 More Rohingya Refugees to Remote Island

Bangladesh Sends 2000 More Rohingya Refugees to Remote Island

Wednesday 24 November 2021 ،
Rakhine State. Hossain claimed that all relocations were completely voluntary, but several refugees said they were being forced to move to the flood-prone island. According to one Rohingya community leader, Bangladeshi authorities told him and his peers to each provide lists of at least five famil ...
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Fire Destroys Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh

Fire Destroys Rohingya Refugee Camp in Bangladesh

Monday 10 January 2022 ،
Rakhine as the most persecuted minority in the world. Myanmar does not recognize the Rohingya as citizens, saying they are nationals of Bangladesh, which in turn, says they are natives of Myanmar. The Rohingya frequently escape the Apartheid-like conditions in the state of Rakhine, where their move ...
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Myanmar Jails 112 Rohingya Muslims, Including Children, Who Tried to Flee Country

Myanmar Jails 112 Rohingya Muslims, Including Children, Who Tried to Flee Country

Tuesday 10 January 2023 ،
Rakhine, a state in Myanmar where they had lived for centuries before the state-sponsored violence began in 2017. In 2017, Buddhist extremists supported by the Myanmar government led a horrific military-led crackdown against the Rohingya community, forcing more than 750,000 Rohingya to le ...
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Myanmar Junta Blocking Aid for Rohingya Muslims after Cyclone

Myanmar Junta Blocking Aid for Rohingya Muslims after Cyclone

Wednesday 14 June 2023 ،
Rakhine state, where more than a million minority Rohingya Muslims are in urgent need of aid a month after a powerful cyclone devastated the region, the United Nations said. Alwaght- Myanmar’s Buddhist junta has blocked humanitarian access to western Rakhine state, where more than a million mi ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies