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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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Afghanistan’s Hekmatyar Shifts View on Peace

Afghanistan’s Hekmatyar Shifts View on Peace

Saturday 16 April 2016
President Ashraf Ghani’s government. In return, Hekmatyar has kept fighting the central Afghan government as well as the foreign forces. However, he in past few years has tried not to close all the doors to compromise and thought about a kind of reconciliation with the central government. But ...
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Taliban Threat or Opportunity for Pakistan?

Taliban Threat or Opportunity for Pakistan?

Monday 17 July 2017 ،
President Mohammed Najibullah, beside a fierce campaign to destroy the neighboring country’s infrastructure. This end motivated Islamabad leaders to invest heavily on a series of rebel groups including the Haqqani Network and Taliban to make them race in struggles to destroy the Kabul governme ...
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ISIS Bomber Targets Shiites’ Muharram Mourning in Kabul, Kills 6

ISIS Bomber Targets Shiites’ Muharram Mourning in Kabul, Kills 6

Friday 29 September 2017 ،
President Ashraf Ghani in a statement, released shortly after the incident, condemned the attack and called it against humanity and religion. He said such attacks will not affect the unity among Afghans.  Ghani wished swift recovery to those wounded in the explosion. The first ten days of Muha ...
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US Withdrawal Risks Civil War, Partition in Afghanistan: Expert

US Withdrawal Risks Civil War, Partition in Afghanistan: Expert

Sunday 9 May 2021 ،
President Joe Biden. But the Taliban argue that the US should have implemented the Doha agreement signed between the group's representatives and the American special envoy to Afghanistan Zamay Khalilzad. So, the Taliban have made two issues clear: First, as long as the US forces stay in Afghanis ...
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US Withdrawal, Looming Shadow of War in Afghanistan

US Withdrawal, Looming Shadow of War in Afghanistan

Sunday 20 June 2021 ،
President Ashraf Ghani and his power sharer Abdullah Abdullah are aware of.  Meanwhile, it is noteworthy that the Taliban do not make their decisions totally independently and the role of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence is crucial. Odds are that Pakistan will force the group to the Do ...

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Courages Individiuals like Sinvar are on the Rise

Courages Individiuals like Sinvar are on the Rise