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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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Hezbollah to Increase its Syria Presence:  Sayyed Nasrallah
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Hezbollah to Increase its Syria Presence: Sayyed Nasrallah

Saturday 21 May 2016
Twitter. In this context, Sayyed Nasrallah considered that if President Bashar Al-Assad stated today that he was ready to serve the American project, this entire war will be over. On another hand, he revealed that a few weeks ago Sayyed Mustapha and his brethrens were studying the option of cleans ...
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India PM, Afghan President in Iran to Ink Trilateral Agreement
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India PM, Afghan President in Iran to Ink Trilateral Agreement

Monday 23 May 2016 ،
Twitter account on the eve of his visit. Modi is expected to meet Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei later in the day.  My meetings with President Rouhani and Hon’ble Supreme Leader of Iran will provide an opportunity to advance our strategic partnership,&rdq ...
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Pakistan Can’t Confirm Taliban’s Leader Death: Pakistan MoI
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Pakistan Can’t Confirm Taliban’s Leader Death: Pakistan MoI

Tuesday 24 May 2016 ،
Twitter. On Monday, US President Barack Obama confirmed the American military had killed the Taliban leader, proclaiming his death an important milestone. Mansour took over the Taliban’s leadership position in July 2015, replacing its founder and spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who di ...
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New Saudi Stance on Yemen; Word Play or Serious Shift
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New Saudi Stance on Yemen; Word Play or Serious Shift

Wednesday 25 May 2016 ،
Twitter post, considering Ansarulah a group from Yemen who had the right to exist. This Saudi standing on the resistant Yemeni group is seen as unprecedented because earlier the Saudis insisted that Ansarulah must be removed from the Yemeni society. The remarks represent a new and surprise Saudi s ...
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Saudi Group Hacks Iranian Website: A Cyber War Ahead?
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Saudi Group Hacks Iranian Website: A Cyber War Ahead?

Thursday 26 May 2016 ،
Twitter, the CIA’s account on Twitter, many anti-Iranian websites and Facebook and Google servers, and made statements on the hacked sites in Farsi, the Iranian official language.       The Americans also claimed Iranian hackers in their last project hacked a cou ...
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Old Game for Saving ISIS in Fallujah
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Old Game for Saving ISIS in Fallujah

Monday 30 May 2016 ،
Twitter page, with 61 percent of the participants- to the surprise of everybody- preferring ISIS terror group to the Public Mobilization Forces. This is not the first time that the regime-run Arab media launch noisy propaganda when the terrorists are on the edge of defeat. Even in Tikrit recapture ...
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Russia Insulted Syria by Returning Tank to Israeli Regime: Arab Politician
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Russia Insulted Syria by Returning Tank to Israeli Regime: Arab Politician

Wednesday 1 June 2016 ،
Twitter account on Monday, a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin granted a request made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return the tank, according to Press TV. In June 1982, during a battle known as Battle of Sultan Yacoub, near Lebanon’s Bekka Valley, the invading ...
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Saudi Daily Al Watan Claims Being  Hacked after Publishing Bin Nayef’s Remarks
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Saudi Daily Al Watan Claims Being Hacked after Publishing Bin Nayef’s Remarks

Monday 6 June 2016 ،
Twitter account. But after nearly half an hour the website was shut down and the Twitter post was deleted. The media activists, however, circulated the news after screenshotting it. At 7pm the website was back to work and started posting. Nearly at midnight, the newspaper issued a statement, claimin ...
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Female Activist Left Bahrain Fearing of Indefinite Detention
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Female Activist Left Bahrain Fearing of Indefinite Detention

Saturday 11 June 2016 ،
Twitter messages, Zainab said the Al Khalifah regime was preparing to file new charges against her, which would have made her detention “indefinite.” “The regime that thinks exile means moving us away from our land should know, we carry Bahrain in our hearts wherever we go,” ...
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Yemen’s Ansarullah says no Pact with Saudi-Led Delegation in Kuwait Talks
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Yemen’s Ansarullah says no Pact with Saudi-Led Delegation in Kuwait Talks

Sunday 12 June 2016 ،
Twitter account. Earlier, UN’s Yemen envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed tweeted: there is a wide common ground that can be built upon. The Yemen peace talks in Kuwait began on April 21 but have suffered several setbacks to intransigence by the Saudi-backed delegation and continued ceasefire vio ...

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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.