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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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US Def Sec Rejects Report of Bombing Iran as ‘Fiction’
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US Def Sec Rejects Report of Bombing Iran as ‘Fiction’

Saturday 28 July 2018
US Defense Secretary James Mattis has vehemently dismissed as "fiction" news in Australian media that American military is planning a missile strike against Iran as early as next month.
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Israeli Regime Kills 2 More Palestinians in Besieged Gaza
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Israeli Regime Kills 2 More Palestinians in Besieged Gaza

Saturday 28 July 2018 ،
Israeli forces has killed on Friday two more Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip as the regime continues cracking down on Gazans weekly protests launched since Mrach 30.
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3 More Women Paid Hush Money to Conceal Affairs with Trump: Lawyer
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3 More Women Paid Hush Money to Conceal Affairs with Trump: Lawyer

Saturday 28 July 2018 ،
Three more women say US President or his associates have paid them hush money to conceal affairs with Donald Trump, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels said on Friday.
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China Calls For Preserving Syria’s Integrity, Reconstructing Country
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China Calls For Preserving Syria’s Integrity, Reconstructing Country

Saturday 28 July 2018 ،
China’s Special Envoy for Syria reiterated Beijing’s calls for preserving Syria’s sovereignty and political solution to the war-torn country’s crisis.
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US-Backed Militants Agree with Damascus to End Syria Crisis
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US-Backed Militants Agree with Damascus to End Syria Crisis

Saturday 28 July 2018 ،
The so-called Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militants, announced that it has come to an agreement with the Syrian government to develop negotiations to end violence in Syria.
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Egypt Grand Mufti to Decide on Court’s Ruling on 75 Death Sentences
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Egypt Grand Mufti to Decide on Court’s Ruling on 75 Death Sentences

Saturday 28 July 2018 ،
An Egyptian court sentenced on Saturday 75 of people over security-related charges, including senior Muslim Brotherhood figures. The ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court will automatically be referred to Egypt’s top theological authority, the Grand Mufti, to decide whether they should be sentenced to death
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Three Reasons to Believe Tel Aviv-Ankara Rifts Are Strategic
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Three Reasons to Believe Tel Aviv-Ankara Rifts Are Strategic

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
The Israeli-Turkish relations are growing strategically complicated and are not likely to heal even if their leaders change.
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What Is Pushing Syrian Kurds to Seek Reunion with Damascus?
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What Is Pushing Syrian Kurds to Seek Reunion with Damascus?

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
Frustrated with American betrayal and afraid of more Turkish aggression, Syrian Kurds negotiate reconciliation with re-empowered government.
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Israeli Regime Detains Two Italian Graffiti Artists
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Israeli Regime Detains Two Italian Graffiti Artists

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
Israeli regime has arrested two Italian graffiti artists who were painting mural of a jailed Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi on the controversial Israeli separation wall.
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Turkey Not to Release American Spy Pastor under Threat: President
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Turkey Not to Release American Spy Pastor under Threat: President

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Turkey will bow to the US pressures to free American pastor Andrew Brunson who is held in Turkey on espionage charges.
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Muslim Survivors of Indian Massacre Shaken by Citizenship Test
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Muslim Survivors of Indian Massacre Shaken by Citizenship Test

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he is still trying to prove he’s a citizen of the Hindu-majority nation.
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Palestinian Heroin Calls for Resistance after Competing 8-Month Jail Sentence
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Palestinian Heroin Calls for Resistance after Competing 8-Month Jail Sentence

Sunday 29 July 2018 ،
Palestinian teenager, Ahed Tamimi, was welcomed by relatives and supporters on Sunday after she was released from Israeli regime’s prison after completing a sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier.
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Why Israeli Regime Seeks Holding 1974 Ceasefire with Syria
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Why Israeli Regime Seeks Holding 1974 Ceasefire with Syria

Monday 30 July 2018 ،
When the war started, Tel Aviv sought nixing the deal but now it wants it fully implemented amid sweeping Syrian victories in south.
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Iran Won’t Give in to Threats: Sherman
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Trump Doesn’t Understand Iran Won’t Give in to Threats: Sherman

Monday 30 July 2018 ،
US under secretary of state for political affairs under Obama said Trump does not understand that Iran "won’t surrender" to his threats because the Islamic Republic "has a culture of resistance that equates giving in to those kinds of public threats as surrender".

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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.