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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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Libyan Political Impasse and the Domino of Unimplemented Agreements
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Libyan Political Impasse and the Domino of Unimplemented Agreements

Saturday 27 May 2023
Supreme State Council of Libya, with 6 members from each side.  A political source said that this agreement was reached following recent meetings in Cairo, Egypt between representatives from the National Unity Government (NUG) and Haftar, and according to which Dbeibeh will be the PM of the fu ...
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Israeli Forces Clash with Protesters near Netanyahu’s Residence
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Israeli Forces Clash with Protesters near Netanyahu’s Residence

Saturday 3 June 2023 ،
Israeli regime’s forces have clashed with protesters who had gathered near Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence on Friday night to express their anger over his controversial judicial reform plan. Alwaght- Israeli regime's forces have clashed with protesters who had gathered near Benjamin Netan ...
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10,000s Protest against Israeli Regime Cabinet’s Extremist Policies for 25th Straight Week
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10,000s Protest against Israeli Regime Cabinet’s Extremist Policies for 25th Straight Week

Sunday 25 June 2023 ،
Supreme Court of its ability to cancel the decisions made by either the regime's cabinet or the Knesset. It also seeks to give politicians more power in the process of selecting the court's judges. Today, we are here to tell ... them that even though tomorrow they continue with the legislat ...
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Clashes Reported as 10,000s Protest against Israeli Far-Right Cabinet for 27th Week
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Clashes Reported as 10,000s Protest against Israeli Far-Right Cabinet for 27th Week

Sunday 9 July 2023 ،
Supreme Court's powers to make it incapable of overriding the decisions made by the far-right cabinet. It also seeks to give sweeping powers to the political elite in the process of selecting judges to the court. Faced with overwhelming protests and a wave of industrial actions, Netanyahu paus ...
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Coup of Hebrew Pharaoh: Netanyahu Passes First Phase of Judicial Reforms
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Coup of Hebrew Pharaoh: Netanyahu Passes First Phase of Judicial Reforms

Wednesday 12 July 2023 ،
Supreme Court decisions that by stripping judges of their authority could limit its ability to overturn the decisions of the government, ministers, and elected officials.   To become a law, this bill has to pass three readings in the 120-member Knesset whose majority is the right-wing par ...
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UK Decried by UN for Unlawful Rwanda Deportation Policy
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UK Decried by UN for Unlawful Rwanda Deportation Policy

Sunday 23 July 2023 ،
Supreme Court on its legality later this year. The deficiencies in the asylum system in Rwanda are such that there are substantial grounds for believing that there is a real risk that persons sent to Rwanda will be returned to their home countries, where they face persecution or other inhumane trea ...
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Israeli Regime Police, Anti-Regime Protesters Clash Outside Knesset
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Israeli Regime Police, Anti-Regime Protesters Clash Outside Knesset

Monday 24 July 2023 ،
Supreme Court’s judges, while seeking to empower the politicians and the Knesset to override the court’s rulings. Netanyahu, who has recently undergone surgery to fit a pacemaker, vowed on Sunday to be in the Knesset for the vote. “We’re continuing our efforts to complete t ...
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India’s Kashmir Clampdown Continues four Years after Article 370 Abrogated
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India’s Kashmir Clampdown Continues four Years after Article 370 Abrogated

Saturday 5 August 2023 ،
Supreme Court began hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the BJP’s 2019 move. But people in the valley say they have little hope anything will change. Anxieties over land ownership Article 370 barred outsiders from settling permanently or b ...
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US-Iraq Security Pact Under Parliament’s Guillotine
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US-Iraq Security Pact Under Parliament’s Guillotine

Tuesday 12 September 2023 ،
Supreme Court asking for review of some of the country’s international agreements including the security pact between Washington and Baghdad. The 2012 agreement with Kuwait was revoked because the Supreme Court decided it was unconstitutional as it was approved by the simple majority vote and ...
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What’s Next as Iraq Scraped Maritime Navigation Agreement with Kuwait?
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What’s Next as Iraq Scraped Maritime Navigation Agreement with Kuwait?

Monday 18 September 2023 ،
Supreme Court found the 2013 maritime agreement with Kuwait, dubbed Khor Abdullah Agreement, unconstitutional and scrapped it, the controversial ruling is now setting the context for a political dispute with this southern neighbor of Iraq in the Persian Gulf.  According to the Supreme Court of ...

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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