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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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Iraqi Forces Begin Second Push to Liberate Hawija Town from ISIS
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Iraqi Forces Begin Second Push to Liberate Hawija Town from ISIS

Friday 29 September 2017
Ramadi, the capital of the sprawling western province of Anbar, in December the next year, in the most decisive victory against the terrorists until that date. ISIS has, ever since, been losing district after district in the face of advances by the Iraqi army and allied forces. Most notably, the t ...
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Iraq Launches Final Operation to Oust ISIS Terrorists
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Iraq Launches Final Operation to Oust ISIS Terrorists

Thursday 26 October 2017 ،
Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, in December 2015on year after the terrorists occupied swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014. ISIS has, ever since, been losing district after district in the face of advances by the Iraqi army and allied forces. Most notably, the terror group lost the northern c ...
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Why US Wants Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Disband?
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Why US Wants Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces Disband?

Sunday 29 October 2017 ،
Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar. They then separately surrounded the ISIS-held Fallujah in May 2016, paving the way for the armed forces to reclaim control of the important city. The climactic point of the PMF shining on the battlefield was when they managed to seize back from ISIS the oil-rich Bai ...
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Iraqi PMF Cmdr. Says ISIS Dealt Heaviest Defeat in Al-Qaim
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Iraqi PMF Cmdr. Says ISIS Dealt Heaviest Defeat in Al-Qaim

Saturday 4 November 2017 ،
Ramadi in the summer of 2014. On Friday, Iraqi security forces, backed by Popular Mobilization Forces, declared they had fully liberated al Qaim city in western Anbar from ISIS Takfiri terrorists. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has congratulated the country's armed forces for liberating ...
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Iraqi PM Declares End of War against ISIS Terrorist Group
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Iraqi PM Declares End of War against ISIS Terrorist Group

Sunday 10 December 2017 ،
Ramadi and Fallujah. Consolidating control over the areas turned out to be hard as the Iraqi government and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) formed a formidable coalition to defeat ISIS in Iraq. In October 2016, this coalition started an important push to recapture Mosul, ISIS's main city ...
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US Helicopter Kills 7 Iraqi Civilians in Al-Anbar
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US Helicopter Kills 7 Iraqi Civilians in Al-Anbar

Saturday 27 January 2018 ،
Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, Iraqi Alsumaria television reported on Saturday morning. The TV cited an unnamed security official as saying that the US helicopter gunship had targeted several civilian vehicles in the al-Baghdadi neighborhood of Ramadi. Alsumaria said the head of the al-B ...
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Iraqi Forces Kill ISIS Remnants in Mop Up Operations
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Iraqi Forces Kill ISIS Remnants in Mop Up Operations

Wednesday 2 May 2018 ،
Ramadi, leaving many militants, including foreigners, killed.” The shelling, according to the source, “destroyed a rest house and many vehicles and equipment.” In December last year, Iraqi Haider al-Abadi announced full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war to eject ISI ...
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How Bosnian Weapons Sold to Saudi Arabia End up at Syria-Based Terrorists’ Hands
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How Bosnian Weapons Sold to Saudi Arabia End up at Syria-Based Terrorists’ Hands

Monday 23 July 2018 ،
Ramadi. By that time, we were already doing rocket launchers for Saddam, 260mm with a range of 500km. I saw Saddam three times.” But Novi Travnik’s fortunes declined when the Bosnian war began in 1992, its once 10,000-strong workforce today reduced to fewer than 900. Much of the factory ...
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Iraq May End US Military Presence Soon
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Iraq May End US Military Presence Soon

Wednesday 13 February 2019 ،
Ramadi, Erbil in the Kurdish autonomous region, Qayyarah Airfield West in Nineveh province, and Ain al-Assad in Al-Anbar among others, the US is the foreign force with the largest military presence in Iraq. The magnitude of the military presence and running the military bases apparently makes the U ...
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Saudi-Allied Militant Cmdr. ISIS Ringleader Killed in Ma’rib
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Saudi-Allied Militant Cmdr. ISIS Ringleader Killed in Ma’rib

Sunday 2 May 2021 ،
Ramadi of Brigade 129 of the militant divisions that have been aiding the coalition on the ground since it began its war on Yemen in March 2015, the Yemen News website reported on Saturday. The website also named the Daesh member as Saif San’ani, saying he used to act as the deputy of the ter ...

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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