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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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NATO Shunned UK Call to Stay in Afghanistan: Defense Minister
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NATO Shunned UK Call to Stay in Afghanistan: Defense Minister

Monday 9 August 2021
US pullout but "nearly all of" NATO’s member states" declined. Alwaght- British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace claimed that the kingdom desperately tried to form a military coalition to stay in Afghanistan after US pullout but nearly all of NATO's member states declined. We tried a number of lik ...
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American Trucks Transport Stolen Syrian Oil to Iraq: Report
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American Trucks Transport Stolen Syrian Oil to Iraq: Report

Monday 9 August 2021 ،
US forces allowed a convoy of 80 vehicles, including tanker trucks carrying stolen Syrian oil, to cross the “illegitimate” al-Walid crossing into Iraq. SANA cited local sources from Rmelan town in the northeastern province of Hasakah as saying that the convoy was accompanied by armored ...
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Turkey’s Foreign Policy Source of Instability for our Country, Region, World: Ex-Commander
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Turkey’s Foreign Policy Source of Instability for our Country, Region, World: Ex-Commander

Wednesday 11 August 2021 ،
US-led military alliance of NATO in the region. “Turkey knows what the US wants to do in the Black Sea. It knows they want to encircle and destabilize Russia,” he said. “Unfortunately, the Turkish government went ahead and supported Ukraine, opened credit lines, created initiative ...
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Iraqi Resistance to Treat Occupiers, Americans or Turks, the Same: Nujaba
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Iraqi Resistance to Treat Occupiers, Americans or Turks, the Same: Nujaba

Wednesday 11 August 2021 ،
US troops from Iraq, and the region, since Washington’s assassination last year of top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units. Two days after the January 3, 2020 attack, which was carried out ...
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Russia, China Wrap up Joint Exercises, Vow Closer Alliance
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Russia, China Wrap up Joint Exercises, Vow Closer Alliance

Saturday 14 August 2021 ،
US-led provocations in eastern Europe and the pacific. Alwaght- Russia and China have concluded their five-day joint military exercise in Northwest China, vowing further collaborations amid rising US-led provocations in eastern Europe and the pacific. The last day of the drills – dubbed Zapad ...
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Iraqi Cleric Reemphasizes on Withdrawal of Foreign Forces, Especially Americans
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Iraqi Cleric Reemphasizes on Withdrawal of Foreign Forces, Especially Americans

Saturday 14 August 2021 ،
US invaded Iraq under the later debunked pretext that the regime of Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. It withdrew soldiers from Iraq between 2007 and 2011, but redeployed them in 2014 along with other partners to allegedly counter the threat of Daesh. Iraq managed to end t ...
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Saga of Dubai’s Princess Latifa, Who Tried, Failed to Win Her Freedom from Her ‘Evil’ Father, Is Set to Hit US Courts
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Saga of Dubai’s Princess Latifa, Who Tried, Failed to Win Her Freedom from Her ‘Evil’ Father, Is Set to Hit US Courts

Monday 16 August 2021 ،
US-flagged yacht in international waters. She was abducted and forced against her will to Dubai, with the help of India. We intend to pursue justice for the victims and accountability for those who orchestrated the violent, military attack on ‘Nostromo'. He and Stirling say they are about ...
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Petraeus: Afghanistan War Conclusion "Catastrophic"
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Petraeus: Afghanistan War Conclusion "Catastrophic"

Wednesday 18 August 2021 ،
US freshly lost Afghanistan war, making the history repeat itself. Alwaght- Retired US Army General David Petraeus has described the outcome of the US war on Afghanistan as “catastrophic”.  The former US commander in Afghanistan as well as CIA director told an American TV host who ...
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The Secret behind Kabul Fall to Taliban Without Resistance
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The Secret behind Kabul Fall to Taliban Without Resistance

Thursday 19 August 2021 ،
US in particular and the West in general. What was the reason behind such an easy fall of Kabul?  Wrong intelligence estimations, surprise, or a plot?  Earlier in July, the US intelligence community had estimated that Kabul could fall within six months, but the latest estimate published ...
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Taliban Gain Access to Huge American-supplied Arms
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Taliban Gain Access to Huge American-supplied Arms

Friday 20 August 2021 ،
US military official, everything that has not been destroyed is now in the hands of the Taliban.  Meanwhile, Michael McCool, a Republican member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called the Taliban's arming with American weapons a threat to the security of Washington and its allie ...

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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.