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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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Iran Urged Increased International Aid for Afghanistan
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Iran Urged Increased International Aid for Afghanistan

Tuesday 21 December 2021
US-led occupation forces from the country. Since then, Washington and its allies have imposed sanctions on Afghanistan and deprived its people of any aid and assistance on the pretext of pressuring the Taliban. Human rights activists maintain that economic sanctions generally do not punish the rul ...
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ICRC to Support Salaries for 10K Health Workers in Crises-Hit Afghanistan
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ICRC to Support Salaries for 10K Health Workers in Crises-Hit Afghanistan

Tuesday 21 December 2021 ،
US-led international forces and the Taliban’s sweeping takeover in August, the country has been teetering on the brink of a major humanitarian catastrophe. The freezing of assets and blocking of humanitarian aid worth billions of dollars by the US and its European allies have plunged the Sout ...
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Iraqi Nation Won’t Remain Silent on Anti-Terror Commanders’ Assassination: Lawmaker
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Iraqi Nation Won’t Remain Silent on Anti-Terror Commanders’ Assassination: Lawmaker

Monday 27 December 2021 ،
US-led combat mission, which was purportedly formed to fight the ISIS terrorist group, had concluded. “We are officially announcing the end of the coalition forces’ combat mission,” al-Araji wrote on Twitter, adding that the coalition would continue providing assistance, advice, a ...
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Rockets Hit US Military Camp near Baghdad Airport: Report
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Rockets Hit US Military Camp near Baghdad Airport: Report

Wednesday 5 January 2022 ،
US-led forces claimed to have downed two armed drones targeting the Ain al-Asad Air Base in Iraq’s Anbar province, located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of the capital Baghdad, early on Tuesday. A similar drone attack was launched Monday on the Victoria military base at Bagh ...
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US Boosts Forces at Syria Oil Fields in Wake of Rocket Attacks
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US Boosts Forces at Syria Oil Fields in Wake of Rocket Attacks

Sunday 9 January 2022 ،
US-led forces in the area targeted suspected rocket launch pads near al-Mayadin. The development also came a day after a military facility housing US occupation forces in al-Omar oil fields in Deir ez-Zor came under rocket attacks from nearby areas, according to a Sabereen News channel, associated ...
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Kazakhstan Crisis: Internal Dispute or Western-plotted Color Revolution?
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Kazakhstan Crisis: Internal Dispute or Western-plotted Color Revolution?

Monday 10 January 2022 ،
US-led West is trying to divert Russia's focus from tensions in Ukraine to the situation in Kazakhstan by orchestrating protests. Some experts suggest that Kazakhstan protests bear hallmarks a color revolution, a series of Western-arranged government changes in neighbors of Russia since the 2000 ...
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Iraq’s Moving To Rebuild Air Force With Non-American Fighter Jets
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Iraq’s Moving To Rebuild Air Force With Non-American Fighter Jets

Wednesday 9 February 2022 ،
US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the air force was practically disbanded, but Washington promised to revitalize and equip this branch of the Iraqi army. At the same time, training young Iraqi pilots through in the US was on the agenda, and in 2011 the first deal for the purchase of F-16 fighter jets ...
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Taliban Condemn Seizure of Afghan Assets as US ’Moral Decay’
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Taliban Condemn Seizure of Afghan Assets as US ’Moral Decay’

Saturday 12 February 2022 ،
US-led international coalition hastily abandoned the South Asian country, millions of Afghans are on the brink of starvation, with no food and no money. The Taliban’s return to power came as the US was in the middle of a chaotic troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The group announced the form ...
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Russia Invades Ukraine
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Russia Invades Ukraine

Thursday 24 February 2022 ،
US-led NATO have long been at odds over Ukraine. Moscow views NATO’s eastward expansion as a direct threat to Russian security. Recently, it had put forward a set of security proposals to de-escalate the tensions, including a guarantee that Ukraine will not join NATO, a demand that the al ...
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Russian Ukraine Campaign: What Are Goals, Future Scenarios?
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Russian Ukraine Campaign: What Are Goals, Future Scenarios?

Sunday 27 February 2022 ،
US-led Western world. In fact, on the one hand, the Ukrainian crisis should be considered part of the larger puzzle of the West-Russia confrontation in Eastern Europe, and on the other hand, this crisis is not limited to recent developments and the Russian-Western conflict over Ukraine but its roots ...

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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.