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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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Fear-shadowed Protests In Northern Syria Against Kurdish Forces, Their American Allies
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Fear-shadowed Protests In Northern Syria Against Kurdish Forces, Their American Allies

Friday 23 October 2020
Raqqa. On Tuesday night, also unknown people assassinated a Kurdish military commander. Sources close to the SDF told the New Arab newspaper that the assassinated commander was named Hawal Mazloum, killed by a couple of gunmen in Al-Haswah neighborhood near the Euphrates River. The attackers fled a ...
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War At Ayn Issa Gates: How Will Kurds Decide?
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War At Ayn Issa Gates: How Will Kurds Decide?

Thursday 31 December 2020 ،
Raqqa, and Aleppo. It links 7 Kurdish-held, autonomously-administered regions. So, fall of the town can deal a painful blow to the connection of the Kurdish-controlled areas. In fact, in case of the occupation of the town by the Kurds, other Kurdish-held strategic towns like Kobani and Manbij will, ...
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US Should Take Action to ‘Limit’ Civilian Casualties in Syria, Iraq: RAND
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US Should Take Action to ‘Limit’ Civilian Casualties in Syria, Iraq: RAND

Sunday 14 February 2021 ،
Raqqah, declared by Daesh as its so-called headquarters, to the bombings that happened over the Germany city of Dresden in 1945. The US literally “wiped Raqqah off the face of Earth” as a result of its carpet-bombing campaigns against the city, Moscow noted back then. RAND advised that ...
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Turkish Jets Strike US-Backed Militants’ Position in Raqqah, Syria: Report
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Turkish Jets Strike US-Backed Militants’ Position in Raqqah, Syria: Report

Sunday 21 March 2021 ،
Raqqah Alwaght- Turkish warplanes reportedly have bombarded an area controlled by US-backed Kurdish militants, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),  in the Arab country’s northern province of Raqqah. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the military aircraft had s ...
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How Is Syria Presidential Election Significant?
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How Is Syria Presidential Election Significant?

Thursday 29 April 2021 ،
Raqqa allowed election process in areas where the Syrian government forces were present. In the new circumstances, they need to have their consent for the vote in a show of good faith to the central government. Otherwise, in the central government dialogue with the Kurds, Damascus will take this int ...
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EU Pledges Aid to Anti-Damascus Region in Name Sovereignty but Sanctions Assad Govt. for Being Sovereign
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EU Pledges Aid to Anti-Damascus Region in Name Sovereignty but Sanctions Assad Govt. for Being Sovereign

Monday 31 May 2021 ،
Raqqa from Islamic State (IS) fighters with US support, almost completely destroying the city and killing over 1,600 civilians. There were indicators that in the course of hostilities the SDF coalition deliberately targeted Arab civilians in Arab-majority Raqqa, so as to kill or evict Arab-Syrian ci ...
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Ankara, Its New Colonialist Approach
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Ankara, Its New Colonialist Approach

Thursday 3 June 2021 ،
Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor provinces, parts of other neighbors, namely Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Armenia, the Azerbaijan and even Iran, including the cities of Mako and Chaldoran in the north of West Azerbaijan province, will be part of the new Turkish state— though the Treaty of Lausanne formed n ...
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Infighting Breaks out between Turkish-Backed Militants in Northern Syria
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Infighting Breaks out between Turkish-Backed Militants in Northern Syria

Sunday 14 November 2021 ،
Raqqah, as they seek to consolidate their grip on areas under their control, have a lion share of stolen assets, and be in charge of smuggling routes. Alwaght- Rival Turkish-backed militants have turned against each other and engaged in fierce exchanges of fire in Syria’s northern provinces of ...
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US Support Mirage: Syrian Kurds Making Dangerous Mistake Again Relying on Washington
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US Support Mirage: Syrian Kurds Making Dangerous Mistake Again Relying on Washington

Thursday 2 December 2021 ،
Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, and Aleppo.  This power gain process was checked by three military operations launched by neighboring Turkey in northern Syria to disrupt connection of the three Kurdish cantons and counter the future threats posed by the Kurdish militias to the Turkish national security. T ...
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Why Has Turkey Resumed Arming Idlib Terrorists?
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Why Has Turkey Resumed Arming Idlib Terrorists?

Saturday 11 December 2021 ،
Raqqa. According to reports, at that time, bloody internal clashes took place between militants affiliated with the Hamza Division, an armed faction affiliated with Free Syrian Army (FSA) and trained by the US nd Turkey, on the outskirts of Ras al-Ain town of Hasakah in the northeast.  Also, 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