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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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Azerbaijan Wahhabis: The Challenge of Returning from Syria

Azerbaijan Wahhabis: The Challenge of Returning from Syria

Monday 10 March 2014
Wahhabists and Syrian rebels. Wahhabis of the Republic of the Azerbaijan declared solidarity with Wahhabis of Dagestan and Northern Caucasus and announced that they seek to establish an Islamic caliphate in the Republic of the Azerbaijan and some areas of Northern Caucasus. The exact number of Azerb ...
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Azerbaijan Should Liaison with Neighboring Countries to Fight ISIS

Azerbaijan Should Liaison with Neighboring Countries to Fight ISIS

Tuesday 30 December 2014 ،
Wahhabists and Salafists from the Northern Caucasus making trouble in Azerbaijan are legitimate. The Sunni population on the northern border of Azerbaijan is fully exposed to the extremism of the Northern Caucasus. The fact that jihadist extremism is spreading into the Russian Federation not only in ...
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Who supporting Wahhabi Movements in Republic of Azerbaijan

Who supporting Wahhabi Movements in Republic of Azerbaijan

Saturday 23 April 2016 ،
Wahhabists and Salafists of Azerbaijan. The Azeri media since past few years have talked about existence of 15,000 to 65,000 Wahhabists across the country. By considering the Wahhabists' and Salafists' gatherings in Baku Mosque, which was closed down in 2008 by the Azeri government after the ...
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The Risks of Extremism in Azerbaijan

The Risks of Extremism in Azerbaijan

Tuesday 3 May 2016 ،
Wahhabists before collapse of the Soviet Union in the country, during the past few years the Wahhabists have grown notably in Azerbaijan, especially in areas of the country sharing borders with Russia. The Wahhabists during the past two decades, with fundings from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countri ...
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Meeting Wahhabism in Egypt

Meeting Wahhabism in Egypt

Monday 23 May 2016 ،
Wahhabists. Before 2011 uprising, the clerics of Al-Da'wa called on people not to take to streets in protest of Hosni Mubarak, but right after fall of Mubarak they made a U-turn, founding the Salafist Al-Nour Party. They won 20 percent of the parliamentary seats in the first post-revolution ele ...
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Let Us Rid the World of Wahhabism: Iran’s Foreign Minister

Let Us Rid the World of Wahhabism: Iran’s Foreign Minister

Wednesday 14 September 2016 ،
Wahhabists fighting fellow Arabs and murdering fellow Sunnis. While these extremists, with the backing of their wealthy sponsors, have targeted Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Shiites and other “heretics,” it is their fellow Sunni Arabs who have been most beleaguered by this exported doctrin ...
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Hajj Pilgrims again Suffered Saudi Arabian Mistreatment: Witnesses

Hajj Pilgrims again Suffered Saudi Arabian Mistreatment: Witnesses

Monday 19 September 2016 ،
Wahhabists. This is why the Saudi leaders are very concerned. It gives out its concerns in its mistreatment of the Hajj pilgrims. For example, because Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, along with a couple of other al-Azhar scholars took part in Sunni conference in Grozny, the capital of Ch ...
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Terrorism Exportation; Riyadh’s Tool to Pressure Kremlin

Terrorism Exportation; Riyadh’s Tool to Pressure Kremlin

Tuesday 27 September 2016 ،
Wahhabists have managed to get toehold in some regions in Russia and even win support of the local authorities. There are strong connections between the Saudi state organizations and the Salafist and Wahhabist networks in Northern Caucasus and some Volga Delta’s coastal areas, and it seems th ...
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Syria Wahhabist Terrorism could Transfer to Russia via Fighters’ Return

Syria Wahhabist Terrorism could Transfer to Russia via Fighters’ Return

Sunday 2 October 2016 ،
Wahhabists and extremist Islamists fall in the category of religion-motivated terror attacks. It can be noted that a majority of the Wahhabist groups observe terrorism as the key instrument to pursue the aimed goals. Generally, the Wahhabism in Russia over the past years has been associated with se ...
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Rifts Still Overshadowing Qatar-Bahrain Relations

Rifts Still Overshadowing Qatar-Bahrain Relations

Thursday 22 December 2016 ،
Wahhabists and Salafists. Riyadh’s main aim was bolstering the Salafist camp in the face of Muslim Brotherhood. Taking advantage of its media tool Al Jazeera news network, Qatar showed support for Muslim Brotherhood and its regional affiliates. This Doha approach turned into a factor influenti ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies