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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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Israeli Dream to‌ Deal Blows to Iran through Turkic World Project

Israeli Dream to‌ Deal Blows to Iran through Turkic World Project

Saturday 12 November 2022
Turkmenistan. “Never before, not even during the days of the Ottoman Empire, have they formed a lasting bloc,” the report said of the Turkic people.  The former Soviet republics are seeking to revive their ethnic and national identity, and the formation of an organization consisti ...
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Iran Discovers New Oil Reserves in Southwest

Iran Discovers New Oil Reserves in Southwest

Tuesday 6 December 2022 ،
Turkmenistan. Iran’s proven oil reserves of at least 160 billion barrels account for almost 10 percent of the world total and rank it fourth after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Canada. The country also sits on the world’s largest proven gas reserves of almost 34 trillion cubic meters, or ...
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Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline and Turkish Dream for an Energy Hub

Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline and Turkish Dream for an Energy Hub

Saturday 7 January 2023 ،
Turkmenistan.  The pipeline is planned to start from the Turkmenbashi gas field of Turkmenistan and stretch through the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan and then to Turkey and finally to Europe. The length of the pipeline is more than 200 kilometers and must pass through the sea at a depth of 300 met ...
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China-Central Asia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Plans and Obstacles

China-Central Asia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership: Plans and Obstacles

Thursday 12 January 2023 ،
Turkmenistan Serdar Bardimuhamedow became the first Central Asian leader, and the second foreign leader, to meet with Xi Jinping in the new year, reaching agreements to upgrade relations to a strategic level. Frequent meetings between the heads of these countries show that China attaches increasing ...
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Railway Network Development Plan for Boosting ECO Trade

Railway Network Development Plan for Boosting ECO Trade

Thursday 26 January 2023 ،
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are members of ECO. The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is also present at the summit as an observer country. Afghanistan, as a member of ECO, did not attend the Tashkent meeting due to the non-recognition of the interim government of the Taliban.    The f ...
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West Looking to Iran’s Shamkhani Moscow Visit with Concern

West Looking to Iran’s Shamkhani Moscow Visit with Concern

Wednesday 8 February 2023 ،
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to discuss Afghanistan was May 2022, hosted by Tajikistan.  Although the meeting discusses the political, economic and security developments in Afghanistan, the political and media propaganda that the Western countries have launched in recent months concerning the ...
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Russia Gazprom CEO to Visit Iran to Push through $40 Billion Deal

Russia Gazprom CEO to Visit Iran to Push through $40 Billion Deal

Tuesday 28 February 2023 ،
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, Safari said. Safari said Iran's scenario for gas trade with Russia is to buy gas from the country and export its own gas to neighboring countries. The official said Iran’s ministry of petroleum has been moving in the “right direction” for oil and ...
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Why’s Iran Handed Over Afghanistan Embassy to Taliban?

Why’s Iran Handed Over Afghanistan Embassy to Taliban?

Wednesday 1 March 2023 ،
Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Russia and China were handed over to the Taliban.  Relative improvement of relations with the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan comes as with the inauguration of administration of President Sayyed Ibrahim Raeisi in Iran, which coincided with the Taliban takeover, Iran name ...
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Regional Afghanistan Summits at Samarkand Station

Regional Afghanistan Summits at Samarkand Station

Friday 14 April 2023 ،
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan joined the meeting. Zamir Kabulov, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, had said that the important events of Afghanistan will be discussed in this meeting. Afghanistan’s security and political issues have been top on agenda of discussions in p ...
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Uzbekistan’s Mirziyoyev Solidifying Power with Referendum

Uzbekistan’s Mirziyoyev Solidifying Power with Referendum

Wednesday 3 May 2023 ،
Turkmenistan, the children replace fathers, and political elites are kept out of the political structure. Though with the concentration of power under new rulers and stepping on the path of the first generation of rulers it is expected that a weak opposition will form in this country, there is no ch ...

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Palestinians Protest near Nablus against Return of Settlers to Homesh

Palestinians Protest near Nablus against Return of Settlers to Homesh