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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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Iraqi Air Force Killed Gathering of ISIS Suicide Bombers; Interior Ministry
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Iraqi Air Force Killed Gathering of ISIS Suicide Bombers; Interior Ministry

Tuesday 16 June 2015
Iraq's Ministry of Defense issued a statement on Tuesday saying that the county's fighter jets managed to hit a gathering of the ISIL suicide bombers in the city of Fallujah after a complex reconnaissance operation, killing more than 30 militants Alwaght - Iraq's Ministry of Defense issu ...
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Split within Taliban Amid Claims Mullah Omar was Killed
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Split within Taliban Amid Claims Mullah Omar was Killed

Sunday 2 August 2015 ،
aviation minister during the Taliban rule in Afghanistan However, there are other conflicting reports on the death of the former Taliban leader, with some saying Mullah Mohammed Omar was killed with bullets and some blaming various diseases for his death. Veteran Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yu ...
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Mullah Akhtar Mansoor Taliban's New Leader

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor Taliban's New Leader

Sunday 2 August 2015 ،
aviation and transport of Taliban Emirate during the rule of the Taliban. With the overthrow of the Islamic Emirate of Taliban, and as result of the US attacks, Mullah Mansoor became a fugitive. After a while, he became a member of the Quetta Shura and in the last three years served as the grou ...
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Iran, Russia to Cooperate to Manufacture Compact Aircraft: Iranian Defense Minister
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Iran, Russia to Cooperate to Manufacture Compact Aircraft: Iranian Defense Minister

Sunday 23 August 2015 ،
aviation industry, saying Tehran has plans to sell a range of homegrown Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to foreign customers.   In recent years, despite tough sanctions imposed by the West, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and has attained self-sufficiency in producing ...
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Russian Air Force Hits Major ISIS Installations in Syria
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Russian Air Force Hits Major ISIS Installations in Syria

Sunday 11 October 2015 ،
aviation group over the past day has destroyed two militant command centers, 29 field camps, 23 fortified facilities and several troop positions with military hardware,” Russian defense ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Saturday. The Russian Air Force conducted 64 sorties and hit a ...
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Assad’s Secret Flight to Russia and how he Evaded Terrorists, US Spy Network
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Assad’s Secret Flight to Russia and how he Evaded Terrorists, US Spy Network

Wednesday 21 October 2015 ،
aviation plane spotter using data from airplane tracker FlightRadar24. Assad's visit to Moscow was conducted in secrecy and only officially announced after the Syrian president returned to Damascus. The visit was Assad's first trip abroad since Syria's armed conflict began in 2011. The ...
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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 ،
aviation ministry reported. The plane was destroyed and all passengers and crewmembers were killed in the crash, Egyptian military and rescue officials told AP. Earlier, media reports suggested there might have been some survivors. The plane climbed to its designated altitude of over 10,000 meters ...
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Terrorists not Able to Down Russian Plane in Egypt: Experts
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Terrorists not Able to Down Russian Plane in Egypt: Experts

Sunday 1 November 2015 ،
aviation and security experts have rejected theories that the plane was downed by terrorists. Alwaght- Amid claims by ISIS terrorists that they shot down the Russian passenger jet that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, civil aviation and security experts have rejected theories that the plane was do ...
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Russia Issues Warning over ISIS Terrorists Returning to their Countries
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Russia Issues Warning over ISIS Terrorists Returning to their Countries

Thursday 5 November 2015 ،
aviation and other [combat] means are deployed exclusively against the terrorist formations on the territory of Syria. There are no strikes being conducted at any other targets, connected to, for example, the forces of the so-called ‘moderate’ opposition,” noted Antonov. He noted that Moscow has be ...
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Russia PM says Egypt Plane Crash Possibly an Act of Terror
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Russia PM says Egypt Plane Crash Possibly an Act of Terror

Tuesday 10 November 2015 ،
aviation, which took the lives of 224 passengers and crew members, is “still ongoing.” Russia’s presidential press-secretary, Dmitry Peskov, had said earlier that the international investigators from Russia, Egypt and other interested nations had not yet reached the preliminary conclusions on what ...

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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.