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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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Baghdad-Erbil Controversial Funding Agreement: What Does Al-Kadhimi Seek?
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Baghdad-Erbil Controversial Funding Agreement: What Does Al-Kadhimi Seek?

Tuesday 22 June 2021
attorney general should prevent this payment to the Kurdish region. The prime minister should be impeached for not committing to the constitution, he was quoted as saying.  Also, Burhanuddin Ishaq, a senior member of the Babilioun Movement, said that the Iraqi cabinet's decision to pay 200 ...
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Armenian Elections: How Did Pashinyan Escape the Defeat?
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Armenian Elections: How Did Pashinyan Escape the Defeat?

Wednesday 23 June 2021 ،
attorney general office said that it received 319 complaints of violations and disorder in the voting stations and it formed 6 cases to address possible graft during the race. The protests and dissatisfaction with the election irregularities are coming as the vote process took place under the auspic ...
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Palestinian Protesters Recount Harrowing Details of Torture at Hands of Israeli Police
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Palestinian Protesters Recount Harrowing Details of Torture at Hands of Israeli Police

Saturday 26 June 2021 ،
attorneys, bystanders, and children inside Nazareth’s police station from May 9 to May 14. The majority of the violent arrests and most of the abuse were conducted by Israeli special forces, including undercover Mista’aravim (counter-terror units within the Israeli Army, Border Police, a ...
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US Progressives, Supposedly Pro Palestine, Vote to Fund Israel
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US Progressives, Supposedly Pro Palestine, Vote to Fund Israel

Monday 18 October 2021 ،
attorney and political activist who has represented many high profile defendants, such as Musa Abu Marzouk of Hamas. He's also been a consultant to numerous NGOs, as well as to movements and governments throughout the Middle East with Hamas and Hezbollah, among them. Why is Israel in the Africa ...
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Canada Appeals Decision on Indigenous Children
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Canada Appeals Decision on Indigenous Children

Saturday 30 October 2021 ،
general practice was “not to send the bodies of students who died at schools to their home communities.” Canada’s residential school system forcibly separated more than 150,000 First Nations children from their families between 1831 and 1996. Many of the children separated from th ...
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Iraq-Iran Joint Assassination Prosecution Committee Meeting: What Are Messages?
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Iraq-Iran Joint Assassination Prosecution Committee Meeting: What Are Messages?

Wednesday 1 December 2021 ،
attorney general, and Rahim Abdel Hassan, the general director of the judicial guard. From Iraq, Mir Mustafa Sayed Ashrafi, deputy prosecutor-general, and head of International Affairs Office for Tehran Revolutionary Court took part.  The presence of high-ranking judicial figures from both Ira ...
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The Execution of Julian Assange
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The Execution of Julian Assange

Wednesday 15 December 2021 ،
attorney-client privilege; can, if the Australian his government agrees, serve out his sentence there;  will receive adequate clinical and psychological care; and, pre-trial and post trial, will not be held in the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) in Florence, Colorado. “There is no ...
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Ex-Israeli Spy Chief Shared Secret Info with Flight Attendant: Report
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Ex-Israeli Spy Chief Shared Secret Info with Flight Attendant: Report

Monday 20 December 2021 ،
Former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed regime’s secrets to a flight attendant with whom he was having an affair, as well as to her husband, Israel’s Channel 13 broadcaster reported on Sunday. Alwaght- Former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed regime' ...
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Gazans Rally in Solidarity with Hunger-striking Palestinian Prisoner Abu Hawash
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Gazans Rally in Solidarity with Hunger-striking Palestinian Prisoner Abu Hawash

Tuesday 4 January 2022 ،
attorney, Jawad Boulos, says the doctors have confirmed that Abu Hawwash is facing the risk of sudden death at any moment. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees' and Ex-Detainees' Affairs also said in a statement on Monday that the 40-year-old Palestinian inmate was in seri ...
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Israel is Tightening Its Grip on Syria’s Golan Heights by Creating “Facts on the Ground”
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Israel is Tightening Its Grip on Syria’s Golan Heights by Creating “Facts on the Ground”

Saturday 22 January 2022 ،
attorney Suhad Bishara said in a press release. The Israeli government has yet to respond to the organizations’ letter. Currently, about 28,000 settlers reside in 34 settlements in the Golan. They operate 167 settlement businesses and control 95% of the land. The new government initiativ ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution