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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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Canadian CEO Blames Trump for Plane Crash in Iran
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Canadian CEO Blames Trump for Plane Crash in Iran

Monday 13 January 2020
Toronto, was shot down unintentionally on January 8, hours after Iran fired missiles at two American military bases in neighboring Iraq in retaliation for the US assassination of Iranian Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani a few days earlier. All the 176 people on board were killed and among them 147 were Ir ...
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6 US Jets Were Near Iran Border at Time of Accidental Shoot-down of Ukraine Plane: Russia
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6 US Jets Were Near Iran Border at Time of Accidental Shoot-down of Ukraine Plane: Russia

Friday 17 January 2020 ،
Toronto, was shot down unintentionally on January 8, hours after Iran fired missiles at two American military bases in neighboring Iraq in retaliation for the US assassination of Iranian Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani a few days earlier. All the 176 people on board were killed and among them 147 were Ir ...
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Death Toll from New Virus Rises to 56 in China, Over 2,000 Infected Globally
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Death Toll from New Virus Rises to 56 in China, Over 2,000 Infected Globally

Sunday 26 January 2020 ،
Toronto. Nearly every confirmed patient had traveled from Wuhan in recent weeks, and most of them are in a stable condition. While the World Health Organization has deemed the new coronavirus an emergency in China, the international body held off designating it a global threat after two days of mee ...
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Nigeria Using Israeli Spyware to Monitor Citizens: Report
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Nigeria Using Israeli Spyware to Monitor Citizens: Report

Wednesday 9 December 2020 ،
Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which researches digital surveillance, security, privacy and accountability, Israeli spyware provider Circles has been helping state security apparatuses across 25 countries, including Nigeria, to spy on the communications of opposition figures, activists, journalists an ...
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Saudi, UAE Regimes Used Israeli Pegasus to Hack Phones of Dozens of Al Jazeera
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Saudi, UAE Regimes Used Israeli Pegasus to Hack Phones of Dozens of Al Jazeera

Monday 21 December 2020 ،
Toronto specializing in cybersecurity, reported that the phones belonging to the employees of the Qatar-based media network, including journalists, producers, anchors, and executives, had been compromised and hacked with “an invisible zero-click exploit in IMessage” in July and August th ...
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Canadian Driver Killed Muslim Family in Hate Attack
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Canadian Driver Killed Muslim Family in Hate Attack

Tuesday 8 June 2021 ،
Toronto, Canadian news outlets reported on Monday. Police said the victims were two women aged 77 and 44, a 46-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. A nine-year-old boy was seriously injured and is recovering in hospital. This was an act of mass murder perpetuated against Muslims,” London May ...
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Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Firm over Surveillance of Users
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Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Firm over Surveillance of Users

Wednesday 24 November 2021 ،
Toronto. “Mercenary spyware firms like NSO Group have facilitated some of the world’s worst human rights abuses and acts of transnational repression, while enriching themselves and their investors,” said Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab. “I applaud Apple for holding ...
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Pro-Palestine Activists Protest Israel’s Atrocities in Canada
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Pro-Palestine Activists Protest Israel’s Atrocities in Canada

Sunday 30 January 2022 ،
Toronto, the capital of the central Canadian province of Ontario, towards the Israeli embassy on Friday. The protesters chanted “Free Palestine” slogans and waved Palestine’s national flags. Deprived of any coverage by Canadian media and news agencies, the protest was held on the ...
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Canadian Government Partners with Israeli Lobby to Delete Pro-Palestinian Accounts
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Canadian Government Partners with Israeli Lobby to Delete Pro-Palestinian Accounts

Monday 20 February 2023 ،
Toronto before being appointed Professor at McGill in 1973. That same year he helped found and became President of the pro-Israel Canadian Professors for Peace in the Middle East, and he then “spent his summers travelling the Middle East. By the late 1970s, he was already heavily involved in ...
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Israel’s Pegasus Spyware Found to Exploit Bug to Target Apple Devices
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Israel’s Pegasus Spyware Found to Exploit Bug to Target Apple Devices

Sunday 10 September 2023 ،
Toronto’s Citizen Lab said in a statement that it had found the bug while inspecting the Apple device of a staffer at a Washington-based civil society group. The vulnerability allowed the NSO Group to inject its Pegasus spyware remotely and surreptitiously onto iPhones and iPads. “The ...

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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.