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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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Four Objectives Kurdistan Democratic Party Seek to Achieve
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Four Objectives Kurdistan Democratic Party Seek to Achieve

Friday 30 October 2015
attacking the Democratic Party’s offices across Kurdistan. Violent clashes claimed lives of 5 and injured 147 civilians. The ministers from the Gorran were also removed from the coalition government by the region’s Prime Minister, Nechervan Barzani , as the region’s parliament speaker was barred fro ...
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No Reconciliation to End Palestinian Third Intifada
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No Reconciliation to End Palestinian Third Intifada

Saturday 31 October 2015 ،
attackers - across the occupied West Bank, including occupied East al-Quds, and the Gaza Strip.  Nine Zionists have died in stabbing incidents in the same period. The wave of stabbing operations was a result of spontaneous combustion within the Palestinian territories where rage and frustrat ...
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Gorran Party Positions, Goals in Iraqi Kurdistan Region's Domestic Crisis

Gorran Party Positions, Goals in Iraqi Kurdistan Region's Domestic Crisis

Saturday 31 October 2015 ،
attack from the protesters. Gorran Party's main argument was that the demonstrators should not have been responded by weapons and live fire, but they should have been tolerated. At the start of violent events, none of the media bound to Gorran have condemned setting fire on the Kurdistan Democra ...
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Saudi Arabia Practically Confesses to Yemen War's Vanity
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Saudi Arabia Practically Confesses to Yemen War's Vanity

Saturday 31 October 2015 ،
attack in early September on a Marib military base, the camping place of the Saudi-led coalition forces, killed and injured nearly 1000 Arab military forces, sending Saudi front totally flustered. Following the deadly attack, the UAE who lost nearly 100 of its forces has distanced itself from Saudi ...
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ISIS Terrorists Claim Responsibility for Downing Russian Plane Over Egypt
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ISIS Terrorists Claim Responsibility for Downing Russian Plane Over Egypt

Saturday 31 October 2015 ،
attack. The unverified statement, written in Arabic, says the flight crash was not a technical fault, as reported by security sources. A Russian plane carrying over 220 people from Egypt to Russia disappeared from radars, and crashed in central Sinai, according to Russian and Egyptian authorities. ...
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ISIS Attack Mosque in Afghanistan Killing Six Worshippers
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ISIS Attack Mosque in Afghanistan Killing Six Worshippers

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
attacked a mosque in Eastern Afghanistan killing six worshippers and wounding four others. Alwaght- ISIS terrorists have attacked a mosque in Eastern Afghanistan killing six worshippers and wounding four others. According to reports, ISIS terrorists fired a rocket that landed on a mosque in Achin D ...
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Israeli Forces Attack Farmers in Gaza as Jewish Settlers Steal Olives
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Israeli Forces Attack Farmers in Gaza as Jewish Settlers Steal Olives

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
attacked Palestinian farmers and showered them with stones then confiscated their crops of olives. Israeli troops turned a blind eye to settlers’ offensive practices. Israeli troops also hindered the arrival of a bus carrying foreign solidarity passengers who volunteered to help Palestinians in pi ...
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Iranian Diplomacy, Brief Review of Vienna II Conference
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Iranian Diplomacy, Brief Review of Vienna II Conference

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
attacks against the terrorist groups, the balance of power on the ground has been tipped in favor of the Syrian government’s forces. Along with their military campaign in the country, the Russians have started an active diplomacy in a bid to find a settlement to the crisis in Syria. Moscow has playe ...
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Friend or Foe; ISIS Strategy towards Israeli Regime

Friend or Foe; ISIS Strategy towards Israeli Regime

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
attacks against this group. However, the important point in this view is the fact that ISIS treats the Zionist regime as its “far enemy”, while it considers the Shiites as its near or principal enemy. In the analysis of the general policy of the ISIS, the political behavior of this group is e ...
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Rabid Israeli Settlers Storm, Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Rabid Israeli Settlers Storm, Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
attacks on Palestinians.

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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.