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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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Why Lebanese PM Visited Paris Not Beirut After 2-Week Detention in Saudi Arabia?
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Why Lebanese PM Visited Paris Not Beirut After 2-Week Detention in Saudi Arabia?

Monday 20 November 2017
Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, in his return paid a surprise visit to Riyadh, calling on Hariri to return home and announce quitting from home. The French president’s demand a week after was followed by his FM's negotiations with the Saudis over the fate of the Lebanese PM and highlighting the n ...
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Saudi Crown Prince Used Proxy to Buy $450m da Vinci Painting
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Saudi Crown Prince Used Proxy to Buy $450m da Vinci Painting

Friday 8 December 2017 ،
Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
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Qatar Removed from UAE Museum World Map as Tensions Escalate
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Qatar Removed from UAE Museum World Map as Tensions Escalate

Saturday 20 January 2018 ،
Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi amid rising tensions between the two Persian Gulf monarchies. In an analysis piece written earlier this week entitled “The UAE/Qatar rivalry is escalating”, the Washington Institute’s Simon Henderson noted that a large map of the world featured at the mu ...
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ISIS Stabbing Attack Kills 1 Injures 4 in Paris
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ISIS Stabbing Attack Kills 1 Injures 4 in Paris

Sunday 13 May 2018 ،
Louvre Marsollier on Rue Marsollier, where the attack took place, was posted by Carol Drummond on Twitter. It showed people running through the streets in a panic, as a body lays on a crosswalk in the street.  Drummond has since deleted the video. Following the incident, French President ...
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Oman Warns UAE, Says Patience with Neighbors Running Out
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Oman Warns UAE, Says Patience with Neighbors Running Out

Friday 8 June 2018 ،
Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi which included the Omani province of Musandam within its border. Tension has been simmering since 2011 when Oman disbanded a UAE spy cell targeting Sultan Qaboos. Muscat, which has tried to avoid being dragged into a Saudi-led rift with Qatar, is opposed to the UAE parti ...
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French Yellow Vest Protests Continue in 2019
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French Yellow Vest Protests Continue in 2019

Friday 25 January 2019 ،
Louvre museum. Cars and barricades were set ablaze on the boulevard Saint-Germain, a famed and wealthy Parisian area. After the French government's spokesperson, Benjamin Griveaux, was escorted from his office as 'yellow vests' managed to enter his ministry's courtyard, president Ma ...
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People Even Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein Donated to MIT: Noam Chomsky
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People Even Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein Donated to MIT: Noam Chomsky

Tuesday 4 February 2020 ،
Louvre in Paris. Meanwhile, huge petroleum corporations like BP and Shell sponsor environmental seminars the world over, something Chomsky is also critical of. Described as “arguably the most important intellectual alive” by the New York Times in 1979, Chomsky revolutioni ...
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Will Sutlan Haitham’s Economic Aid Package Save Muscat’s Neutral Policy
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Will Sutlan Haitham’s Economic Aid Package Save Muscat’s Neutral Policy

Thursday 29 October 2020 ،
Louvre Abu Dhabi museum in 2017 exhibited a map in which the Musandam province of Oman was portrayed as part of the UAE territory. Even worse, Qatar's name was fully eliminated from the map.  Sultan Haitham’s package for the economic rescue  Risks to the moderate path of the co ...
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Saudi Crown Prince Pressed France to Lie about Fake Painting: Revealed
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Saudi Crown Prince Pressed France to Lie about Fake Painting: Revealed

Saturday 10 April 2021 ،
Louvre Abu Dhabi museum in 2018, and then at a blockbuster da Vinci show by the Louvre in Paris the following year. “The scientific evidence was that Leonardo da Vinci only made a contribution to the painting. There was no doubt,” says a senior French government official who goes by the ...
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What Did Take Bin Zayed to Paris?
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What Did Take Bin Zayed to Paris?

Saturday 18 September 2021 ،
Louvre Museum and Sorbonne University branches in the Arab country. Actually, Paris and Abu Dhabi were engaged in cultural dialogue that began in early 2018 and lasted until June 2019. During this period, the two exchanged cultural weeks. Most important of them was the Emirates cultural week in Pari ...

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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