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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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Over 70 Killed in Pakistan Park Terrorist Attack
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Over 70 Killed in Pakistan Park Terrorist Attack

Sunday 27 March 2016
TTP) faction which calls itself Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has claimed responsibility for the attack. Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesperson for the group said, “We want to send this message to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that we have entered Lahore. He can do what he wants but he won't be able to stop us ...
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Great Leap Backward: America`s Illegal Wars on World
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Great Leap Backward: America`s Illegal Wars on World

Monday 20 June 2016 ،
TTP, TTIP, etc.—that virtually abolish the constitution of states, including our own. Spearheading the economic effort to control the periphery and the entire world is the so-called “Washington Consensus.” It hugs the market-fundamentalist idea that global neoliberalism and core f ...
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Taliban Claimed Responsibility for Hospital Bombing; At least 70 Killed
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Taliban Claimed Responsibility for Hospital Bombing; At least 70 Killed

Monday 8 August 2016 ،
TTP) splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar takes responsibility for this attack, and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks. We will release a video report on this soon, the group's spokesma ...
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Senior Militant Leader Surrenders Himself to Pakistani Security Forces
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Senior Militant Leader Surrenders Himself to Pakistani Security Forces

Tuesday 18 April 2017 ،
TTP) and incumbent spokesperson of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar had surrendered recently, without providing further details. They say he split with the main Pakistani Taliban four years ago and joined the breakaway faction, which claimed a March 31 car bomb near a Shiite mosque that killed at least 24 people. ...
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Pakistan Warns US against Unapproved Military Operations
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Pakistan Warns US against Unapproved Military Operations

Friday 29 December 2017 ،
TTP), al-Qaeda and their allies, who have been seeking to impose Saudi-backed Wahhabi ideology on the country. The military has launched multiple military operations to regain territory where the groups' fighters once held sway. Earlier this month Pakistan ordered its air force to shoot down an ...
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Pakistan Accuses US of Ignoring Terrorists’ Presence in Afghanistan
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Pakistan Accuses US of Ignoring Terrorists’ Presence in Afghanistan

Tuesday 2 January 2018 ،
TTP) which has killed thousands of Pakistanis,” he told a private TV channel, referring to a Taliban-affiliated militant group based in Pakistan’s volatile region bordering Afghanistan, as cited by the newspaper Meanwhile Pakistan called an emergency cabinet meeting and summoned the US ...
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Pakistani Taliban Leader Killed in Afghanistan
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Pakistani Taliban Leader Killed in Afghanistan

Saturday 16 June 2018 ،
TTP chief in late 2013. He succeeded Hakimullah Mehsud who was killed in a drone strike in November of that year. Later on Friday, the Pakistani army said that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called Pakistani army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa to share the news of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leade ...
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Separatists Attack Five-Star Hotel in Pakistan’s Balochistan
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Separatists Attack Five-Star Hotel in Pakistan’s Balochistan

Sunday 12 May 2019 ،
TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army and the Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Saturday’s incident follows a bombing this week that targeted police outside a major Sufi shrine in Lahore, in the east of Pakistan, that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 20, officials said.  
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Cross Border Fire from Afghanistan Kills 2 Pakistani Soldiers
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Cross Border Fire from Afghanistan Kills 2 Pakistani Soldiers

Monday 30 August 2021 ،
TTP. The TTP, which renewed its allegiance to the Taliban in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul, has recently stepped up its campaign against the Pakistani army. The army did not say which group it thought was responsible for Sunday’s attack, but has long held that TTP leaders and fighters ...
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ISIS of Khorasan: A Threat for Afghanistan, Region
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ISIS of Khorasan: A Threat for Afghanistan, Region

Saturday 9 October 2021 ،
TTP), Taliban's Pakistan branch. Upon declaration of ISIS, leaders of the group tasked several TTP commanders with recruiting from tribal regions of Pakistan. Soon, ISIS ranks became full of militants frustrated with the Taliban. The group also recruited militants from India and former Soviet re ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

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