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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 PM Abadi Officially Declares Victory over ISIS in Tal Afar
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Iraqi PM Abadi Officially Declares Victory over ISIS in Tal Afar

Friday 1 September 2017
Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh. Alwaght- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared victory over the ISIS terrorist group in the northern city of Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh. Iraqi forces backed by the volunteer Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) launched an offen ...
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7 Killed, 13 Injured as Suicide Bombers Attack Power Plant in North Iraq
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7 Killed, 13 Injured as Suicide Bombers Attack Power Plant in North Iraq

Saturday 2 September 2017 ،
Tal Afar town and its surrounding areas, weeks after ousting the terorists from Iraq's second city Mosul, bringing all of Nineveh province under government control.      
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Iraq Forces Liberated 90% of ISIS-Held Territory : Govt. Spokesman
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Iraq Forces Liberated 90% of ISIS-Held Territory : Govt. Spokesman

Monday 11 September 2017 ،
Tal Afar, another major bastion of ISIS in the country. Tal Afar, occupied by ISIS in mid-2014, is located in the Nineveh governorate in the north of Iraq near the Syrian and Turkish borders 63 km west of Mosul and about 360 km north-west of the capital Baghdad. Tal Afar is one of the oldest contin ...
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Iraqi Forces Advance in Offensive to Liberates Hawija from ISIS
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Iraqi Forces Advance in Offensive to Liberates Hawija from ISIS

Thursday 21 September 2017 ،
Tal Afar, another major bastion of ISIS in the country. Last month, the Iraqi government has liberated over 90 percent of the country’s territory from ISIS Takfiri terrorist group.  
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Kurdish Militias Helped 100s ISIS Terrorists Flee Hawijah before Liberation by Iraqi Forces
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Kurdish Militias Helped 100s ISIS Terrorists Flee Hawijah before Liberation by Iraqi Forces

Tuesday 31 October 2017 ،
Tal Afar, Hawijah and the surrounding areas,” he told the MEE. According to some PMF units in and around Kirkuk, fleeing costs started from $1,000 for an ordinary ISIS terrorist and $2,000 for a family and rose up to $10,000 for a senior ISIS element. When the Takfiri terrorists arrived at a ...
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Erbil and Baghdad Wrestle for Borders Control
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Erbil and Baghdad Wrestle for Borders Control

Wednesday 8 November 2017 ،
Tal Afar city, which stands some 40 kilometer west of Mosul in Nineveh province. The Ibrahim Khalil crossing has been held by the Peshmerga forces since fall of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, before it was recently seized by the federal troops. Border gate with Syria Fish-Habu ...
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Iraqi Forces Kill 22 ISIS terrorists in Nineveh Province
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Iraqi Forces Kill 22 ISIS terrorists in Nineveh Province

Monday 16 April 2018 ،
Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of Mosul, while the rest were nabbed in different parts of Mosul. Last week, Iraqi security forces announced that more than 20 ISIS terrorists had been killed in several security operations west of Mosul. On 9 December, 2017, Iraq’s Prime Minist ...
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Iraq Summons Turkish Ambassador to Protest Airstrikes
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Iraq Summons Turkish Ambassador to Protest Airstrikes

Thursday 27 December 2018 ،
Tal Afar against Turkish soldiers in Afrin” and said it showed “how accurate our decision was.” “This attack proved that the terrorists who were piling up on our border, would eventually target us. It is known that the USA has 22 bases in the region and more than 20,000 truc ...
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What’s Behind US Elimination of ISIS Leader?
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What’s Behind US Elimination of ISIS Leader?

Monday 7 February 2022 ،
Tal Afar area, 70 kilometers from the Iraqi city of Mosul, to a Turkmen family. He was an officer in the Iraqi army during the Ba'athist regime rule, studied at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Mosul, and joined Al-Qaeda in 2003, the year the American invasion toppled Saddam Hussein rule.&nbs ...
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Tel Aviv Taking Cowardly Revenge on Palestinian Prisoners for Its Gaza Loss
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Tel Aviv Taking Cowardly Revenge on Palestinian Prisoners for Its Gaza Loss

Wednesday 25 October 2023 ،
Afar prison west of Ramallah.  According to these Palestinian sources, the Israeli occupation forces had detained Hamdan on October 22 during massive detentions in raids on the West Bank after the start of Hamas operation.  The statement stresses that the Israeli occupation has started a ...

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