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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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Afghan Forces Kill 69 Terrorists in 24 Hrs.
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Afghan Forces Kill 69 Terrorists in 24 Hrs.

Monday 10 July 2017
Zabul, Farah, Badghis, Kunduz, Faryab, Balkh, Takhar and Helmand provinces, the statement added. The Afghan security forces have beefed up security operations against militants recently as war-weary Afghans have been witnessing a surge in attacks by Taliban fighters and ISIS affiliates across the c ...
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Afghan Forces Sufferer 6,769 Casualties in 4 Months; Anti-Terror Ops Reach Stalemate
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Afghan Forces Sufferer 6,769 Casualties in 4 Months; Anti-Terror Ops Reach Stalemate

Tuesday 1 August 2017 ،
Zabul as well as Kunduz in the north. Around 3 million people, or about a tenth of the population, were living in areas controlled or influenced by insurgents, with some 21 million living in areas under government control or influence.
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Afghanistan Preparing Peace Deal with Pakistan: President Ghani
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Afghanistan Preparing Peace Deal with Pakistan: President Ghani

Sunday 19 November 2017 ،
Zabul province, President Ghani rejected on Sunday the perceptions that Afghanistan wants destruction of Pakistan. He said this is neither the notion of the Afghan government and nation nor will Afghanistan allow anyone to do bad with the country. President Ghani also added that such perceptions t ...
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Afghan Forces Kill Top Al-Qaeda Leader, Senior Taliban Commanders
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Afghan Forces Kill Top Al-Qaeda Leader, Senior Taliban Commanders

Tuesday 5 December 2017 ،
Zabul, the agency said, without giving further details. Meanwhile, the Taliban group has lost two more senior local leaders in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan after killing the commander of the Red Unit of the group. The provincial government media office in Helmand in a statement said at ...
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Taliban Attack Afghan City of Farah
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Taliban Attack Afghan City of Farah

Tuesday 15 May 2018 ،
Zabul are among 10 provinces that have witnessed ongoing heavy clashes between security forces and Taliban in recent days and the continuation of the clashes have raised concerns among the people, MPs and politicians.    
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Afghan Taliban Leader Lived near US Base as CIA Looked Pakistan: Book
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Afghan Taliban Leader Lived near US Base as CIA Looked Pakistan: Book

Monday 11 March 2019 ،
Zabul province, an hour’s walk from the US military’s Forward Operating Base (FOB) Lagman, the journalist told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant last month. US forces occasionally swept the area, at one point searching Omar’s safehouse while the Taliban chief hid behind a se ...
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Taliban ‘Infiltrators’ Kill Dozens of Afghan Troops
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Taliban ‘Infiltrators’ Kill Dozens of Afghan Troops

Friday 20 March 2020 ،
Zabul provincial council chief Ata Jan Haq Bayan said on Friday. Four other members of the Afghan security forces were also missing, he added. Bayan said that the attackers, who “had connections with the Taliban,” fled in two military Humvee vehicles, along with a pickup truc ...
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Roadside Bomb Kills at Least 11 in Afghanistan Zabul Province
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Roadside Bomb Kills at Least 11 in Afghanistan Zabul Province

Monday 10 May 2021 ،
Zabul after a roadside bomb struck a bus late Sunday night, the interior ministry said. Alwaght- At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan’s Zabul after a roadside bomb struck a bus late Sunday night, the interior ministry said. Zabul’s provincial governor’s ...
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US Withdrawal, Looming Shadow of War in Afghanistan
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US Withdrawal, Looming Shadow of War in Afghanistan

Sunday 20 June 2021 ،
Zabul in the south, Farah in the west, and Kunduz in northeast, leading to fall of four cities. The government offices were transferred to other places, reports added. The Taliban claimed that with the exit of the security forces, they seized control of Arghandab town in Kandahar.  New reports ...
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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 ،
Zabul Province over the government’s continued occupation of Afghanistan. He told MintPress: NATO forces were more or less guarding poppy fields and poppy production, under the guise of counterinsurgency. The logic was ‘we don’t want to take away the livelihoods of the people.&rsq ...

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Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity

Exclusive: A mirror named the Persian Gulf: Reflecting the continuity of Iranian identity