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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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Iraq’s PMF Approach Syria Borders, Trigger ISIS Defeat Countdown
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Iraq’s PMF Approach Syria Borders, Trigger ISIS Defeat Countdown

Wednesday 31 May 2017
Nineveh province, the ISIS terrorist group was in control of over 400 of the border areas which are majorly crossing the desert areas. The past three days' progresses of the voluntary forces have seen cleansing about 6 additional kilometers of the borders. The Kurdish forces in northern Syria ...
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Deir ez-Zor, New Focal Point of Syrian Army, Opponents
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Deir ez-Zor, New Focal Point of Syrian Army, Opponents

Sunday 20 August 2017 ،
Nineveh province. All these blows made the terrorist group seek new stronghold as alternative. The terrorist group not only moved its commanders to Deir ez-Zor but also relocated hundreds of trucks of ammunition and other military equipment to the border city. Families of hundreds of foreign ISIS t ...
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Iraqi Popular Forces Continue Desert Operation against ISIS Terrorists
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Iraqi Popular Forces Continue Desert Operation against ISIS Terrorists

Saturday 25 November 2017 ،
Nineveh, Salahuddin and Anbar. It said forces went on clearing landmines planted by ISIS members at an airport south of Hatra. PMF media said Thursday the forces had cleared 55 villages in al-Jazeera. Iraqi forces declared the end of Islamic State’s territorial influence earlier this month a ...
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ISIS Booby Trapped House in Iraq’s Rawa Kills 25
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ISIS Booby Trapped House in Iraq’s Rawa Kills 25

Friday 1 December 2017 ،
Nineveh and Salahuddin and the western province of Anbar. The forces ended the first phase of the offensive on November 17, when they drove out the Daesh extremists from their last urban stronghold in Iraq and raised the Iraqi flag over buildings in the western town of Rawah and nearby border areas ...
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Iraqi Forces Clearing ISIS Remnants in Al-Anbar near Saudi Border
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Iraqi Forces Clearing ISIS Remnants in Al-Anbar near Saudi Border

Saturday 3 February 2018 ،
Nineveh. The oil chief of ISIS surrendered after Iraqi security forces surrounded him, according to the military sources. At the peak of the ISIS grip over Iraq and Syria, the terrorists were heavily relying on oil smuggling to reap revenues. But as Iraqi Forces backed by the volunteer Popular Mobi ...
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Iraq Launches Operation against ISIS near Syria Border
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Iraq Launches Operation against ISIS near Syria Border

Sunday 17 May 2020 ،
Nineveh and Salahuddin to the Syrian border. Alwaght- Iraqi Forces have launched on Sunday a massive operation, dubbed Operation Al Jazeera Lions, against ISIS terrorists covering the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin to the Syrian border.  “Under the supervision of th ...
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Years after ISIS Obliteration, Thousands of Iraqis Remain Domestically Displaced
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Years after ISIS Obliteration, Thousands of Iraqis Remain Domestically Displaced

Wednesday 26 July 2023 ،
Nineveh are victim to administrative failure and political score settling. Alwaght- Consecutive years of insecurity and war have turned Iraq into one of the main countries grappling with refugee crisis, to an extent that the case of refugees and the challenges pertaining to them have been one of the ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Nineveh and Salahuddin, especially in the valleys and caves of the Hamrin Mountains that connect the four provinces, as well as the Makhoul Mountains in the southeast of Nineveh. These activities pose a serious threat to the stability of Iraq, prompting the security forces to adopt various strategi ...
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With ISIS Inmates Breaking Free, Security Threats Are Back to Iraq
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With ISIS Inmates Breaking Free, Security Threats Are Back to Iraq

Thursday 22 January 2026 ،
Nineveh province. Simultaneously, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani directed the armed forces to take decisive action against any attempts to undermine security along the shared borders. He emphasized that the international borders, especially the one with Syria, have been completely for ...
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PMF, Iraqi Military Launch Coordinated Strike on ISIS Remnants
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PMF, Iraqi Military Launch Coordinated Strike on ISIS Remnants

Monday 16 February 2026 ،
Nineveh desert targeting ISIS remnants ALWAGHT- Iraq’s PMF, alongside the army, launches a major operation in the Nineveh desert targeting ISIS remnants. The Popular Mobilization Forces launched a large-scale security operation in the Nineveh desert on Monday, coordinating with Iraqi army uni ...

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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.