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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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Myanmar Army Planned, Executed Genocide of Rohingya Muslims: Report
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Myanmar Army Planned, Executed Genocide of Rohingya Muslims: Report

Thursday 19 July 2018
Zeid Ra‘ad al-Hussein said enocide charges could be brought against Myanmar following the country’s campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslims. He pointed out that attacks on the Rohingya had been “well thought out and planned.”  
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UN Sharply Criticizes Israeli Regime over Crimes against Palestinians
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UN Sharply Criticizes Israeli Regime over Crimes against Palestinians

Tuesday 24 July 2018 ،
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a video address to the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People that the situation in Gaza has escalated dramatically in recent months with the potential to generate threats to peace across a far broader region. Zeid, who hea ...
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Trump’s Attacks on Press Incitement of Violence: UN Human Rights Chief
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Trump’s Attacks on Press Incitement of Violence: UN Human Rights Chief

Monday 13 August 2018 ،
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein , the outgoing UN human rights commissioner, said Donald Trump’s anti-press rhetoric is “very close to incitement to violence” that would lead to journalists censoring themselves or being attacked, The Guardian reported. Alwaght- Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein , the outgoing UN hu ...
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UN Calls for Prosecution of Myanmarese Army Officials over Genocide Charges
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UN Calls for Prosecution of Myanmarese Army Officials over Genocide Charges

Tuesday 18 September 2018 ،
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, hinted last month that Suu Kyi was complicit in the crimes against the Rohingya. The United Nations (UN)’s top human rights official says Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned last year over a state-sponsored campaign of terror against Rohin ...
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Iran, Iraq Ink MoUs on Judicial Cooperation
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Iran, Iraq Ink MoUs on Judicial Cooperation

Tuesday 9 February 2021 ،
Zeidan, the president of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council. During the meeting, the two officials exchanged views on the strengthening and developing of bilateral judicial and legal ties. Raeisi is also expected to hold talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Preside ...
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Iraqi FM Visits Iran for Second Time in a Month
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Iraqi FM Visits Iran for Second Time in a Month

Saturday 27 February 2021 ،
Zeidan. The key aim of Raeisi's visit was to follow up the dossier on the US assassination of Iran's legendary commander General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in a drone strike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020. General Soleimani led Iran&rs ...
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The “Seam Zone”: Israeli Officials Are Barring Thousands of Palestinian Farmers from Their Land
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The “Seam Zone”: Israeli Officials Are Barring Thousands of Palestinian Farmers from Their Land

Wednesday 17 November 2021 ،
Zeid, a farmer who owns 67 acres in the Seam Zone, explained in the report how her family has lost hope over the restrictive measures. “Every time I want a permit, like most people I know, it’s a battle. My sisters haven’t gotten a permit for years. They’ve given up. But we h ...
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Can Sharm El-Sheikh Summit Reverse Aqaba Failure?
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Can Sharm El-Sheikh Summit Reverse Aqaba Failure?

Wednesday 22 March 2023 ،
Zeid said that this meeting was held in line with the efforts to consolidate the stability, calm the situation, and defuse tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians.  Some sources with knowledge of the matter maintained that bilateral meetings between the participants of this meeting were ...
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Israeli Settlers Kill another Palestinian Teenager in Occupied West Bank
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Israeli Settlers Kill another Palestinian Teenager in Occupied West Bank

Saturday 5 August 2023 ،
Zeidan, who said he witnessed the incident from about 200 meters away said that he did not see the youth killed by Israeli troops carrying weapons or explosives, Reuters reported. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the killing as a field execution and called on the International Cr ...
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IOC Accomplice to Israeli War Crimes? Calls for IOC to Ban Israel from Paris Olympics Grow
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IOC Accomplice to Israeli War Crimes? Calls for IOC to Ban Israel from Paris Olympics Grow

Saturday 20 July 2024 ،
Zeid, Wissam Jadallah (coach of the Palestinian national team), Mohammad Darabieh (referee), Anas Hamdan, Rami Abu Showish, and in wrestling people such as Manaser Abu Sharokh, Saeed Abu Rukba, Thaer Abu al-Tin and other people in other sports fields such as Abdul Rahim Lowa Khashan (Taekwondo), Abd ...

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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.