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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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Assange Arrest: Turning Point Is Here — Don’t Let Them Win
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Assange Arrest: Turning Point Is Here — Don’t Let Them Win

Saturday 13 April 2019
Will we wait until they come for us because our homes are built atop resources they wish to plunder, because we shared information online they found objectionable, because we dared to question why madmen are in control of our country and much of the world? Will we wait until they come for us because ...
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Turkey Slams France for Hosting Syria’s Kurdish Militants
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Turkey Slams France for Hosting Syria’s Kurdish Militants

Saturday 20 April 2019 ،
Workers’ Party (PKK) that has been waging a bloody war against Turkey for decades.  In a statement released on Friday, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the French president was “seeking to confer artificial legitimacy on a faction of terrorist groups. & ...
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Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Govt Spied on Him for Over a Year
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Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Govt Spied on Him for Over a Year

Monday 22 April 2019 ،
Like the proverbial “shot heard round the world,” the U.K.’s arrest and imprisonment of publisher and journalist Julian Assange officially signaled the Western world’s war on a free press. The Australian who founded WikiLeaks, but stepped down as editor-in-chief last year, was ousted from the Ecuado ...
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Afghanistan’s New Parliament Inaugurated After Disputed Polls
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Afghanistan’s New Parliament Inaugurated After Disputed Polls

Friday 26 April 2019 ،
President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated Afghanistan’s new parliament after almost six months since elections were held Alwaght-President Ashraf Ghani has inaugurated Afghanistan’s new parliament after almost six months since elections were held and following long delays and claims of voter frau ...
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US, Israel to Arm Syria’s Kurdish Militants with Anti-Aircraft Missiles: Report
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US, Israel to Arm Syria’s Kurdish Militants with Anti-Aircraft Missiles: Report

Wednesday 1 May 2019 ،
Workers’ Party (PKK(. The PKK, it added, has designated the towns of Rmelan and Shaddadah in Syria’s Hasakah Province as well as the Jalabiyah and al-Omar regions as launching points for its American-supplied missiles. Ankara is unhappy with Washington’s support for Kurdish milit ...
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12 Dead in Virginia Shooting, Several Injured
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12 Dead in Virginia Shooting, Several Injured

Saturday 1 June 2019 ،
At least twelve people have been killed and six more were injured in a shooting at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the US. Alwaght- At least twelve people have been killed and six more were injured in a shooting at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the US.  The su ...
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Sudan’s Future Dim as Foreign Meddling Continues
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Sudan’s Future Dim as Foreign Meddling Continues

Thursday 6 June 2019 ،
Workers’ Trade Union Federation, which accounts for a large part of the protest body, in a statement called on the people to take to the streets for a sit-in. The University Professors Association also reacted to the army clampdown and invited people to continue civilian disobedience until uns ...
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Turkey ’Neutralized’ 43 Kurdish Militants in Iraq: Defense Ministry
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Turkey ’Neutralized’ 43 Kurdish Militants in Iraq: Defense Ministry

Saturday 8 June 2019 ،
Workers Party (PKK) so far as part of an operation Ankara launched in northern Iraq 13 days ago. Alwaght- Turkey said on Saturday it has neutralized 43 members of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) so far as part of an operation Ankara launched in northern Iraq 13 days ago. The Turkish military launched ...
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How NeoCon Billionaire Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel
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How NeoCon Billionaire Is Driving the Outsourcing of US Tech Jobs to Israel

Wednesday 12 June 2019 ،
Several U.S. tech giants including Google, Microsoft and Intel Corporation have filled top positions with former members of Israeli military intelligence and are heavily investing in their Israeli branches while laying off thousands of American employees, all while receiving millions of dollars in U ...
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30 Killed in Northeast Nigeria after Triple Attack
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30 Killed in Northeast Nigeria after Triple Attack

Monday 17 June 2019 ،
Days before that, motorcycle-riding bandits also attacked several villages in the far northwestern Sokoto state, killing more than two-dozen of the local residents. With the lack of a strong police force and an effective judicial system in Africa’s most populous nation, villagers have establi ...

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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.