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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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Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on

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Israei Regime Failed to Down Unmanned Drone
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Israei Regime Failed to Down Unmanned Drone

Tuesday 19 July 2016
Syrian army. The UAV is believed to be Russian-made and unarmed. Anis al-Naqqash, a Lebanon-based political analyst tweeted on Sunday that the drone belonged to Hezbollah. According to the expert, it succeeded in its mission to photograph IOF manoeuvres in the occupied Golan Heights. The drone saf ...
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US-led Airstrikes Kills 56 Civilians in Northern Syria
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US-led Airstrikes Kills 56 Civilians in Northern Syria

Tuesday 19 July 2016 ،
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said 11 children were among the victims of the coalition’s Tuesday Dawn airstrikes near the Syrian village of al-Tukhar, situated close the ISIS-held city of Manbij near the Turkish border. SOHR director Rami Abdel Rahman said the aerial assaults lef ...
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French Aggression on Aleppo Killed 120 Children, Women: Syria
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French Aggression on Aleppo Killed 120 Children, Women: Syria

Wednesday 20 July 2016 ،
Syrian-Turkish borders, targeting Toukhan al-Kubra village to the north of Manbij, killing families in complete and demolishing houses there. “The French unjust aggression claimed the lives of more than 120 civilians, most of them are children, women and elderly, in addition to tens of wounde ...
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US-Called ‘Moderates’ Behead Palestinian Child in Syria’s Aleppo
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US-Called ‘Moderates’ Behead Palestinian Child in Syria’s Aleppo

Wednesday 20 July 2016 ،
Syrian army against the ongoing wave of violence and is active in Aleppo and its countryside. Opposition activists circulated a video showing the boy in civilian attire and sitting inside a truck. He appears to be surrounded by a group of militants. The video also showed that he was being treated f ...
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Why Riyadh Moving Close to Arabs’ Top Enemy: Tel Aviv?
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Why Riyadh Moving Close to Arabs’ Top Enemy: Tel Aviv?

Thursday 21 July 2016 ،
Syrian conflict and Iran. This division more than ever paved the way for Riyadh’s drawing closer to the Israeli regime. Actually, Saudi Arabia and the Israeli regime share almost similar expectations from the US on the West Asian issues. But at the time being, the situation between Riyadh and ...
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Swedish Bus Driver Violently Attacked Syrian Refugee
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Swedish Bus Driver Violently Attacked Syrian Refugee

Thursday 21 July 2016 ،
Syrian asylum seeker, leaving him bloodied and in need of medical care, a shocking video footage shows. Alwaght- A Swedish bus driver violently attacked a Syrian asylum seeker, leaving him bloodied and in need of medical care, a shocking video footage shows.   The man in the footage identified ...
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President Assad Sheds Light on Turkey, Saudi, US, Qatar Supportive Role for Terrorists
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President Assad Sheds Light on Turkey, Saudi, US, Qatar Supportive Role for Terrorists

Friday 22 July 2016 ،
Syrian president, in an interview with Cuba's official news agency Prensa Latina, said that Turkey and its allies, including Qatar and Saudi Arabia, lost most of their cards on the battlefield in Syria and now they are left with the Aleppo card. They “worked hard … to send as much ...
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Coup Push Erdogan to Restore Good Relations with Russia, Iran?
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Coup Push Erdogan to Restore Good Relations with Russia, Iran?

Sunday 24 July 2016 ،
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. However, recently, and especially after the coup by the military, and Russian and Iranian support for the Turkish government, it appears that a change in Turkey's policy and Ankara’s cooperation with Tehran and Moscow could be witnessed soon. The Russian ...
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Impudent, Naive; Russian Media React to Saudi Foreign Minister’s Offer
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Impudent, Naive; Russian Media React to Saudi Foreign Minister’s Offer

Sunday 24 July 2016 ،
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad indicated the Saudi Arabian foreign minister's diplomatic naiveness. Talking to the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya on Saturday, she said that al-Jubeir was yet young and it appeared that he had not enough experience in politics to enable him to measure the ...
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Clashes Continue in Syria’s Manbij, ISIS Uses Human Shields
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Clashes Continue in Syria’s Manbij, ISIS Uses Human Shields

Sunday 24 July 2016 ،
Syrian Democratic Forces says ISIS has been using civilians as human shields in Manbij as the fighters make advances in the Aleppo countryside. The Syrian Democratic Forces seized control of al-Banawi neighborhood south of Manbij in Aleppo's northeastern countryside as battles to retake the enti ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.