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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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ISIS Terrorist Group Launches New Chlorine Gas Attack
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ISIS Terrorist Group Launches New Chlorine Gas Attack

Thursday 25 December 2014
ISIS terrorists have reportedly shelled a city in the western Iraqi province of Anbar with chlorine gas-imbued missiles, media reports citing security sources say. The attack is said to have targeted a district with trapped and starving civilians, Russia Today reported.
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Airstrikes against ISIS Terrorist Group top $1bn, Kill over 1,100 People
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Airstrikes against ISIS Terrorist Group top $1bn, Kill over 1,100 People

Saturday 27 December 2014
Alwaght-America and coalition airstrikes against ISIS Terrorist Group in Syria have killed nearly 1,200 people ‒ including 52 civilians ‒ and wounded at least 800 others at a cost of more than $1 billion, since the bombings began in September.
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US, Main Cause of Violence and Insecurity in West Asia
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US, Main Cause of Violence and Insecurity in West Asia

Sunday 28 December 2014
Alwaght- USA continues to escalate its aerial campaign against ISIS terrorist group, shifting more attack and surveillance aircraft from Afghanistan to a base in Kuwait.
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Azerbaijan Should Liaison with Neighboring Countries to Fight ISIS

Azerbaijan Should Liaison with Neighboring Countries to Fight ISIS

Tuesday 30 December 2014
Alwaght-As the ISIS terrorist group continues its territorial designs and economic plans, questions are emerging about ISIS plans for areas outside of the West Asia. Already, we are seeing splinter groups emerging in the Taliban who are supporting ISIS and there is support for ISIS as far away as Southeast Asia. Significantly, a statement from Katiba Uqba ibn Nafi (KUN), a joint AQIM-Ansar al-Shariah Tunisia effort in support of the ISIS terrorist group as a Caliphate reflects an international jihadist trend to boost ISIS in the face of the US-led coalition.
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We Shall Reap the Harvest that ISIS Sowed in the West Asia, Saddam's Daughter
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We Shall Reap the Harvest that ISIS Sowed in the West Asia, Saddam's Daughter

Tuesday 30 December 2014
Alwaght-Raghad Saddam Hussein, the eldest daughter of the former Iraqi dictator met Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, former Iraqi vice-president, in Amman the capital of Jordan, Salah Al-Mukhtar, revealed.
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Masoud Barzani Slammed Turkey's supports for ISIS against Kurds
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Masoud Barzani Slammed Turkey's supports for ISIS against Kurds

Tuesday 30 December 2014
Alwaght - Masoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, slammed Turkey’s policy towards Syria’s three-year-old crisis and accused Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of supporting ISIS terrorist group in.
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Kurds' New Gains Bring 70% of Kobani under Control: Observatory
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Kurds' New Gains Bring 70% of Kobani under Control: Observatory

Saturday 3 January 2015
Alwaght-Kurdish fighters have gained control over about 70 percent of Syria’s strategic town of Kobani across from the Turkish border, a Britain-based monitoring group says.
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Historical Mosque Demolished by ISIS in Iraq
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Historical Mosque Demolished by ISIS in Iraq

Sunday 4 January 2015
Alwaght- The historical mosque of Sultan Wais in the Iraqi city of Mosul has targeted and demolished by the ISIS terrorists, as the terrorist group steps up attacks against religious sites and figures, SHAFAQNA reports.
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Who Is behind the Assassination of Iraqi Sunni Clerics?
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Who Is behind the Assassination of Iraqi Sunni Clerics?

Monday 5 January 2015
Alwaght-At least three Sunni clerics have been killed and one injured in an area near Iraq’s southern city of Basra, a government spokesman said on Friday, an apparent sectarian attack that drew immediate calls for calm.
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Fierce Clashes Between “ISIS” and Zahran Aloush’s Fighters
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Fierce Clashes Between “ISIS” and Zahran Aloush’s Fighters

Tuesday 6 January 2015
Alwaght- According to so-called “Islamic state” websites, ISIS terrorist group began large-scale military operations against the repositioning points of Zahran Aloush’s mercenaries. Meanwhile, the terrorists on Tweeter expressed their aversion against Zahran Aloushby calling him "traitor" because of his obedience to the policies of Saudi regime. Nevertheless, “Liwa Al-Islam” operations under the leadership of Alloush in Damascus east countryside led ISIS terrorists' warlords to take extreme actions against him. Syrian opposition related local media reported that Alloush flee to safe areas frightened of ISIS terrorist group's threats, calling their followers to assassinate him in the first opportunity.
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ISIS Terrorists Group Sells over 5,000 Izadi Women, Girls as slaves: Iraq Official
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ISIS Terrorists Group Sells over 5,000 Izadi Women, Girls as slaves: Iraq Official

Tuesday 6 January 2015
Alwaght-Iraqi Minister of Human Rights Mohammed Mahdi Ameen al-Bayati says the Takfiri ISIS terrorists have sold more than 5,000 women and girls from Iraq’s Izadi Kurdish minority in their slave markets, as Press TV reports.
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Saudi Regime Faces the Consequences of Its Support for Terrorism

Saudi Regime Faces the Consequences of Its Support for Terrorism

Tuesday 6 January 2015
Alwaght-Saudi Arabia is on alert for terrorist attacks after a general and two other soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in the deadly assault along the country’s border with Iraq, the Guardian reported.
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After ISIS: Residents Return to Mt. Sinjar Despite Mines, Devastation
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After ISIS: Residents Return to Mt. Sinjar Despite Mines, Devastation

Thursday 8 January 2015
Alwaght- After Kurdish forces pushed ISIS terrorist group back from the embattled Mount Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, they returned home only to find devastation. RT traveled to the region to see how people are coping with the scars that war has left behind.
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Tony Blair ‘Could Face War Crime Charges’ As Result of Iraq Inquiry
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Tony Blair ‘Could Face War Crime Charges’ As Result of Iraq Inquiry

Thursday 8 January 2015
Alwaght- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could face war crimes charges as a result of the long-anticipated Chilcot report into the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a Liberal Democrat peer told the House of Lords on Tuesday.

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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.