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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 Plans to Cut Troop Numbers in Afghanistan to Less than 5,000

US Plans to Cut Troop Numbers in Afghanistan to Less than 5,000

Sunday 9 August 2020
Mark Esper said on Saturday that the United States would lower the number of its forces currently deployed in Afghanistan from about 8,600 to below 5,000 troops by the end of November. “We are going down to a number less than 5,000 before the end of November,” Esper said in an interview ...
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Army General to Lead US Space Command as New War-Fighting Force

Army General to Lead US Space Command as New War-Fighting Force

Sunday 23 August 2020 ،
Mark Milley said at the ceremony. He and Defense Secretary Mark Esper oversaw Thursday's change of command. Space Command was resurrected last year after a near-two decade hiatus. Like other military combatant commands -- such as US Central Command, which oversees missions in the Middle Ea ...
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Israel Presses US for Advanced Weapons after F-35 Jets Sale to UAE

Israel Presses US for Advanced Weapons after F-35 Jets Sale to UAE

Monday 7 September 2020 ،
Mark Esper spoke by telephone on September 4 and discussed the UAE normalization deal. “Both leaders exchanged views on how recent developments will advance shared US-Israeli defense priorities, and committed to maintaining an open dialogue about potential avenues for cooperation,” the ...
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Pentagon Chiefs Fight Wars to Keep Arms Dealers Healthy: Trump

Pentagon Chiefs Fight Wars to Keep Arms Dealers Healthy: Trump

Tuesday 8 September 2020 ،
Mark Esper] should defend the honor of those with whom he serves at the Pentagon? He has little to lose, since he's probably going to be fired anyway. Why not go out on a high note?” tweeted neoconservative luminary Bill Kristol, a top booster of the disastrous US invasion of Iraq and a vo ...
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Messages IRGC Commander’s Just Sent To US-Israeli Camp

Messages IRGC Commander’s Just Sent To US-Israeli Camp

Tuesday 22 September 2020 ،
Mark Esper, and CIA Director Gina Haspel. It is noteworthy that inside Iraq if more investigation is conducted, more can be charged with complicity but definitely different layers of people, from service to security personnel, can be found guilty of helping the largely inhumane and illegal crime. Th ...
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What Does Trump Seek Behind Sending Pompeo To Europe, West Asia?

What Does Trump Seek Behind Sending Pompeo To Europe, West Asia?

Monday 16 November 2020 ،
Mark Esper and some other administration staff, ordered massive distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, and withheld high-important security issues from Biden’s transition team, demonstrating that he is still in control of the presidential affairs and does not plan to retreat.  The roug ...
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Trump Orders Pentagon to Pull 2,500 US Troops from Afghanistan, Iraq before Leaving Office

Trump Orders Pentagon to Pull 2,500 US Troops from Afghanistan, Iraq before Leaving Office

Wednesday 18 November 2020 ،
Mark Esper, which led to a flurry of resignations at the Pentagon, yielding gaps now filled by Trump’s loyalist. National security adviser Robert O’Brien told reporters at the White House that the Trump campaign has kept its promise of returning US troops back home. “Four years a ...
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Can Post-Trump US Stay In Eastern Syria?

Can Post-Trump US Stay In Eastern Syria?

Wednesday 2 December 2020 ،
Mark Esper and replaced him with acting Christopher Miller. Then other top Pentagon officials were told to resign. In his first speech to the American forces, Miller expressed intention to accelerate the retreat from West Asia and Afghanistan. What demonstrates Miller’s seriousness is his hir ...
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Ex-Defense Chief Sues Pentagon for Blocking Parts of His Memoir

Ex-Defense Chief Sues Pentagon for Blocking Parts of His Memoir

Monday 29 November 2021 ،
Mark Esper sued on Sunday the Pentagon, arguing that the department is blocking significant portions of an upcoming memoir about his tenure under former president Donald Trump. Alwaght- Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper sued on Sunday the Pentagon, arguing that the department is blocking signif ...
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Iran Blacklists 51 US Officials, Commanders for Involvement in General Soleimani Assassination

Iran Blacklists 51 US Officials, Commanders for Involvement in General Soleimani Assassination

Sunday 9 January 2022 ،
Mark Esper, Gina Haspel, Christopher Miller and Steven Mnuchin and also Matthew Tueller, Steven Fagin and Rob Waller, who were listed respectively on 19 January 2021 and 23 October 2020, identifies and imposes sanctions as set forth in the abovementioned Act on the following persons for the role the ...

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Courages Individiuals like Sinvar are on the Rise

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