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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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New Era in Moscow-Havana Relations

New Era in Moscow-Havana Relations

Tuesday 12 May 2015
The rise of Gorbachev and the collapse of the Soviet Union had a significant impact on the Cuban economy, and the country's gross domestic product fell by 30 percent. However, years after those events, the relations between Russia and Cuba has significantly progressed in all fields, from meeting ...
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Bolivian President Condemns U.S. Expansionist Policies
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Bolivian President Condemns U.S. Expansionist Policies

Tuesday 16 June 2015 ،
The Latin American president said on Sunday that the US continues to use tactics such as “government coups and military dictatorships” to impose its policies “in the pursuit of geopolitical interests.” Morales has slammed the US for still relying on military coups and dictatorships to impose its pol ...
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Imperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship
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Imperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship

Wednesday 7 September 2016 ،
The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion about the relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The aim of this paper is to remove this confusion. The paper is organised in three parts. The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion about the relatio ...
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134 Sri Lankan Peacekeepers linked to Child Sex Ring; No Arrests: UN Report
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134 Sri Lankan Peacekeepers linked to Child Sex Ring; No Arrests: UN Report

Wednesday 12 April 2017 ،
They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the U.N. peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away. The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they ...
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Why Is China Stretching Arms to Latin America?
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Why Is China Stretching Arms to Latin America?

Monday 17 September 2018 ،
The intention of the visit was not covert. Venezuela is witnessing a chaotic economy with a grave inflation rate which the economists warn could pass the 1 million percent by the end of the year. This was the reason that took the leftist president Maduro to seek help from the Asian and global econom ...
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Re-Colonization: France, Turkey and England Return to Colonial Ambitions
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Re-Colonization: France, Turkey and England Return to Colonial Ambitions

Friday 25 January 2019 ،
The French Empire For a decade we have been revealing the incongruity of the French desire to re-establish its authority over its old colonies. This was the logic behind the nomination by President Nicolas Sarkozy of Bernard Kouchner as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Kouchner replaced the French Rev ...
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Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly CIA, But Close Enough
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Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly CIA, But Close Enough

Monday 16 August 2021 ،
The company was founded in 1979 by M. Charito Kruvant, the scion of a wealthy landowning Bolivian family who fled the country after the progressive revolution there in 1952. Today, it has grown into a massive, for-profit behemoth working in at least 85 countries with a full-time staff of around a th ...
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Erdogan Seeks High Fly With Turkic Council’s Wings
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Erdogan Seeks High Fly With Turkic Council’s Wings

Sunday 14 November 2021 ،
The Turkish leader has a set of strategies and funds the Turkic Council an appropriate tool pursue goals. Alwaght- Foreign Ministers of Turkic Council states held their 8th summit in Istanbul on Friday. They coordinated the draft agenda and the final documents to be approved and signed at the next s ...
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Maduro’s Re-election Maintains anti-American Atmosphere in Venezuela
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Maduro’s Re-election Maintains anti-American Atmosphere in Venezuela

Tuesday 30 July 2024 ،
The National Electoral Council of Venezuela announced the turnout at 59 percent. In this election, 10 candidates from different political parties competed for the presidency. Edmundo Gonzalez, the candidate of far-right pro-Western parties, was Maduro's main rival and even some analysts predict ...
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Iran Voices Continued Support for Venezuela Opposing US Policies
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Iran Voices Continued Support for Venezuela Opposing US Policies

Wednesday 27 August 2025 ،
The talks came as the United States deployed three naval destroyers off Venezuela’s coast under the banner of counter-narcotics operations, while tightening sanctions and raising the bounty on President Nicolas Maduro. Against this backdrop, Iran and Venezuela — both heavily sanctioned b ...

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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.