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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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Yemeni Forces to Unveil New Indigenous Air Defense Systems Soon
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Yemeni Forces to Unveil New Indigenous Air Defense Systems Soon

Thursday 20 February 2020
Tornado multi-role combat aircraft of the Royal Saudi Air Force in the country’s northern al-Jawf province, stressing that 2020 will be the year of Yemeni air defense systems that will change the course of battles against the Saudi-led coalition. He told Arabic-language Mirat al-Jazeera news ...
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Yemen’s New Missiles Game Changers Against Saudi Aggression
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Yemen’s New Missiles Game Changers Against Saudi Aggression

Tuesday 25 February 2020 ،
Tornado fighter jet while on a bombing mission in the Yemeni skies. The Yemeni army and popular committees’ show of apparent war dominance against the Saudi-led forces on the ground along with destroying the aggression camp’s air superiority will worsen the status of the nightmarishly-cr ...
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Yemeni Forces Liberate Jawf Province from Saudi-Backed Militants
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Yemeni Forces Liberate Jawf Province from Saudi-Backed Militants

Friday 20 March 2020 ،
Tornado multirole combat aircraft. Saree added that the engineering and anti-armor units of the Yemeni army could well accomplish all their tasks during the operation, as artillery units demolished the enemy's fortification lines and army soldiers fought off enemy forces with their light and me ...
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Exposure of UK Troops Stationed at Saudi Torture Facility in Yemen Offers Peek into Dirty War There
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Exposure of UK Troops Stationed at Saudi Torture Facility in Yemen Offers Peek into Dirty War There

Wednesday 7 July 2021 ،
Tornado aircraft, Paveway bombs, and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles. Without exaggeration, every day Yemen is hit by UK-made bombs, dropped by UK-made planes, which are repaired and serviced on Saudi soil by UK contractors, including Royal Air Force engineers, and flown by UK-trained pilots. A ...
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Despite Pledge, Biden Leaves Tap Open, Approving Billions in Arms Deals to Saudi Arabia
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Despite Pledge, Biden Leaves Tap Open, Approving Billions in Arms Deals to Saudi Arabia

Saturday 20 November 2021 ،
Tornado aircraft have been central to Saudi Arabia’s devastating attacks on Yemen. BAE Systems also has 6,300 employees in Saudi Arabia supporting the Saudi Air Force as part of the British-Saudi Defence Cooperation Programme, and we know [it] sends weekly shipments by air to the Saudi armed f ...
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Night of Devastating Tornadoes Likely Kills Over 100 in Kentucky
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Night of Devastating Tornadoes Likely Kills Over 100 in Kentucky

Sunday 12 December 2021 ،
At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday. At least 100 people were feared dead ...
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Tracking Britain’s Role in West Asia Crises as Queen Rewards Blair with "Knighthood"
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Tracking Britain’s Role in West Asia Crises as Queen Rewards Blair with "Knighthood"

Wednesday 5 January 2022 ،
Tornado fighter jets. Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles and Brimstone bombs were also supplied to Riyadh by London. BAE Systems, Britain's largest weapons maker, sold worth of £15 billion ($20.2 billion) weapons, equipment, and training services to Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2020.&n ...
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UK Concerned as China Recruiting Dozens of Its Military Pilots
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UK Concerned as China Recruiting Dozens of Its Military Pilots

Tuesday 18 October 2022 ،
Tornado fighter jets and the Harrier jump jet - which used to operate off British aircraft carriers, to teach its pilots how best to counter their capabilities, the western official said. It's not training Chinese pilots on Western jets. It's taking Western pilots of great experience to hel ...
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At Least 87 Civilians Killed by UK, US Weapons in Just over Year
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At Least 87 Civilians Killed by UK, US Weapons in Just over Year

Wednesday 11 January 2023 ،
Tornado aircraft sold and maintained by Britain and F-15s from the US. Some of the bombs used, such as the Paveway IV, are made in the UK – and the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) estimates that the total value of UK arms sales to Saudi since it began its intervention in the Yemen war in 2 ...
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Saudi Execution Rate Almost Doubled under Bin Salman: Report
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Saudi Execution Rate Almost Doubled under Bin Salman: Report

Wednesday 1 February 2023 ،
Tornado and Typhoon aircraft and bombs.  CAAT says the true value of arms sales could be more than £23bn (around $28bn) when additional open licensees are taken into account.  A previous court challenge by CAAT in 2019 forced the UK government to suspend arms sales, but after ...

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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.