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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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Russia Pans US Military Buildup in Japan
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Russia Pans US Military Buildup in Japan

Saturday 11 May 2019
USSR and Japan -- that envisioned potential handing over of island of Shikotan and islets of Habomai to Japan. According to the 2018 discussions, any territorial exchanges would only be possible after inking a peace treaty. Tokyo, however, insists on first solving the territorial dispute, preferabl ...
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Iran Leader Slams Americans for Unauthorized Trips to Regional States
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Iran Leader Slams Americans for Unauthorized Trips to Regional States

Saturday 30 November 2019 ،
USSR for now’, but the Imam did not accept such a point of view,” Ayatollah Khamenei said. Trump landed at the US base Bagram airfield in Afghanistan on Thursday and served Thanksgiving dinner to American troops before meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. During the visit, the U ...
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Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn
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Study Reveals How UK Intelligence Works with Media to Smear Jeremy Corbyn

Friday 6 December 2019 ،
USSR to the British Communist Party, calling for a violent uprising. The forged letter was printed on the front page of The Daily Mail and is widely judged to have swung the election to the Conservatives. Former BBC journalist Paul Mason said he expects there to be one Zinoviev letter scale lie per ...
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Threat of Nuclear War Between US, Russia at Its Greatest Since 1983
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Threat of Nuclear War Between US, Russia at Its Greatest Since 1983

Saturday 29 February 2020 ،
USSR was at that time the highest it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. US and NATO officials would do well to recall the danger to European and world security posed by the “Able Archer ‘83” exercise and the potential for Soviet miscalculations when assessing the con ...
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Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State
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Geopolitics, Profit, Poppies: How CIA Turned Afghanistan into a Failed Narco-State

Monday 28 June 2021 ،
The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colonial campaigns in Asia, with a rapid militarization of the area and the empowerment of pliant local elites. The war in Afghanistan has looked a lot like the war on drugs in Latin America and previous colo ...
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Russia Withdraws Troops after Drills near Ukraine
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Russia Withdraws Troops after Drills near Ukraine

Sunday 26 December 2021 ،
USSR. Such a demand was already rejected by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with the German dpa news agency but both NATO and Washington expressed their readiness to negotiate with Russia on security. Some of the other troop movements that sparked such extreme concerns in th ...
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Israeli Arms Deliveries to Kiev To Destroy Moscow-Tel Aviv Ties: Medvedev
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Israeli Arms Deliveries to Kiev To Destroy Moscow-Tel Aviv Ties: Medvedev

Monday 17 October 2022 ،
USSR. The Soviet Union cut off ties with Tel Aviv in the aftermath of the Israeli war of aggression against Egypt, Jordan and Syria in June 1967, and did not reestablish relations until a week before the socialist nation's disintegration in December 1991.  
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Political Expert Explains How US Interventionist Policies Led to Russia-Ukraine Conflict
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Political Expert Explains How US Interventionist Policies Led to Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Saturday 10 June 2023 ،
USSR, it continues to pursue these goals. It is my observation, after just returning from Russia and the May 9 Victory Day celebrations, that the Russian people continue to cherish these accomplishments of the Soviet Union, with the hammer & sickle and red flag ubiquitous in every city I visite ...
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120,000 Armenians May Leave Nagorno-Karabakh
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120,000 Armenians May Leave Nagorno-Karabakh

Monday 25 September 2023 ،
USSR, with its predominantly ethnic Armenian population fighting a bloody war for independence in the 1990s. Russian peacekeepers were deployed in the region after a flare-up in 2020 which concluded with Baku reclaiming a large portion of the territory it had previously lost. Yerevan had tacitly su ...
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Russia Voter Turnout in Presidential Election Rises to 65%: Election Commission
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Russia Voter Turnout in Presidential Election Rises to 65%: Election Commission

Monday 18 March 2024 ،
USSR. At that time, around 74% of voters turned out to cast their vote. The average turnout at the presidential elections in modern Russia ranged between 64% and 69%. The ballot held in 2018 had a turnout of around 67%, RT reported.  Meanwhile, the incumbent President Vladimir Putin seems set ...

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