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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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Turkey Kurdish Dilemma: Further Tensions or Ill-favored Deal?
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Turkey Kurdish Dilemma: Further Tensions or Ill-favored Deal?

Friday 25 January 2019
safe zone in Syria is not a new issue. Since the eruption of the conflict, the Turkish leaders raised the idea, though the plan did not materialize as the other actors, including the US, opposed it. During an address at the UN, Erdogan said the Turkish army was ready to contribute to setting up a sa ...
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Voices from Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting
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Voices from Syria’s Rukban Refugee Camp Belie Corporate Media Reporting

Saturday 6 July 2019 ،
safe havens where they are provided food, shelter and medical care. Silence about the civilian evacuations from Rukban is likely a result of the fact that those doing the rescuing are the governments of Syria and Russia — and the fact that they have been doing so in the face of increasing lev ...
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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, White Helmets, Whitewashing of An Appalling Agenda
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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, White Helmets, Whitewashing of An Appalling Agenda

Friday 2 August 2019 ،
safety. The White Helmets have been discredited and exposed as a British-government-incubated project by a number of independent geopolitical analysts, including Scott Ritter, Philip Giraldi, John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, Eva Bartlett, Graham Porter, Rick Sterling , Cory Morningstar and many more.&nb ...
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How Will New Putin-Erdogan Deal Change Northern Syria Situation?
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How Will New Putin-Erdogan Deal Change Northern Syria Situation?

Thursday 24 October 2019 ،
safe zone and Damascus and Moscow retook control of the north. Alwaght- As the five-day ceasefire in northeast Syria ended, Russia and Turkey announced they reached an agreement to end the Turkish military operation against the Syrian Kurds as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met his Ru ...
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Al-Kadhimi’s Warm US Talks Received With Chill At Home
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Al-Kadhimi’s Warm US Talks Received With Chill At Home

Tuesday 25 August 2020 ،
safe from our fire,” the statement read.  Qais al-Khazali, the Secretary-General of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq expressed his surprise that al-Kadhimi and his delegation did not raise the US pullout case and it was the American side that discussed the case. “Trump has his own motivatio ...
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US Retreats from Iraq as Resistance Makes Advances
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US Retreats from Iraq as Resistance Makes Advances

Wednesday 9 September 2020 ،
safe havens for the Americans, now the American commanders admit that no spot in Iraq can provide them with immunity as all of the troop concentration places were attacked in the recent months by resistant fighters.  In other words, if in the past some political factions were doubtful about at ...
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Barzanis’ Greenlight To US Stay? Erbil Says ISIS Poses Threats, Baghdad Unable to Help
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Barzanis’ Greenlight To US Stay? Erbil Says ISIS Poses Threats, Baghdad Unable to Help

Tuesday 12 January 2021 ،
safeguard them as waves of terrorist attacks and security challenges are on the rise.  The remarks are coming as earlier political and military leaders in the Kurdish region said they would not allow the Iraqi army to station its forces inside Kurdistan’s borders. To fill the vacuum caus ...
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Perpetrators behind Soleimani’s Assassination Won’t Be Safe: Senior Commander
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Perpetrators behind Soleimani’s Assassination Won’t Be Safe: Senior Commander

Wednesday 5 January 2022 ،
safe, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) reiterated on Tuesday. Alwaght- The perpetrators behind the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, will not be safe, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’ ...
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Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria, Possible Scenarios
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Turkish Incursion into Northern Syria, Possible Scenarios

Tuesday 31 May 2022 ،
safe zone into Syrian territory to push away from the border the PKK and its Syrian affiliates. Following the announcement, Turkish National Security Council held a meeting headed by Erdogan, stating the need for the internal and cross-border operations to fight PKK, YPG, and ISIS.  Following ...
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Syrian Kurds and Repeat of American Betrayal Nightmare
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Syrian Kurds and Repeat of American Betrayal Nightmare

Sunday 4 December 2022 ،
safety and protection against the Turkish attacks is the return to the central government. As long as they relied on the US, the Kurdish commanders resisted calls for dialogue and alliance with Damascus but after the US relocation of its forces in recent days that sent the Kurds concerned, they shif ...

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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.