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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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What US, Turkey Really Want in Northern Syria
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What US, Turkey Really Want in Northern Syria

Sunday 4 March 2018
Rojava’ in Syria with the Iraqi Kurdistan to create a contiguous Kurdish nation-state will always fuel as much interest as it will anxiety. In reality, it’s far from practical. Contrary to the popular beliefs of nation-builders in Washington, the Kurds are far from a monolithic ethno-pol ...
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Mix of Fear and Betrayal Allures Syrian Kurds into Talking to Govt.
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Mix of Fear and Betrayal Allures Syrian Kurds into Talking to Govt.

Wednesday 13 June 2018 ،
Rojava, on March 17. The announcement came following a meeting of a council of 200 people representing the Arabs, Turkmens, Assyrians, and the tripartite cantons in the north. A 31-member leadership body was picked at the summit. Their triumphs came to a climactic point when the SDF reclaimed contro ...
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How Will New Putin-Erdogan Deal Change Northern Syria Situation?
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How Will New Putin-Erdogan Deal Change Northern Syria Situation?

Thursday 24 October 2019 ،
Rojava, told the Kurdish Hawar News that the Administration will soon state its position on the agreement.  
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US Never Promised Kurds Autonomous State in Northern Syria: Defense Secretary
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US Never Promised Kurds Autonomous State in Northern Syria: Defense Secretary

Saturday 14 December 2019 ،
Rojava’ as some sort of feminist utopia, but this “brave social experiment” is now imperiled by the Trump administration’s stubborn refusal to continue waging a war it has all but lost in Syria. The SDF provided an ideal anti-Assad proxy through which the US could ...
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Syrian Kurdish Alliance: Grounds, Obstacles
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Syrian Kurdish Alliance: Grounds, Obstacles

Thursday 7 May 2020 ،
Rojava revolution.” Rojava advocated self-management in political and social affairs in western Kurdistan. A couple of years later, in 2016, the Syrian Kurds, led by the PYD, announced the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The autonomous region contained three important unifie ...
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EU Pledges Aid to Anti-Damascus Region in Name Sovereignty but Sanctions Assad Govt. for Being Sovereign
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EU Pledges Aid to Anti-Damascus Region in Name Sovereignty but Sanctions Assad Govt. for Being Sovereign

Monday 31 May 2021 ،
Rojava as a terrorist entity. President Assad’s forces, meanwhile, have regained sovereignty over much of Syrian territory and have made a point of consolidating control over all foreign-aid inflows, including those intended for NES. True, the rest of the EU’s 130-million euro Syrian-ai ...
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Syrian Kurds Ready to Talk with Central Government
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Syrian Kurds Ready to Talk with Central Government

Sunday 4 July 2021 ،
Rojava, in a statement issued on Saturday, responded positively to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s request for negotiations with the Damascus government, Kurdish Hawar news agency reported. “The Syrian crisis can only be resolved through dialogue and a Syrian-Syrian understandi ...
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Fate of Syrian Kurds Amid Geopolitical Dynamics Changes
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Fate of Syrian Kurds Amid Geopolitical Dynamics Changes

Tuesday 25 January 2022 ،
Rojava.  The closure of the border crossings began in mid-December 2021, after the KRG announced that Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces were wounded in clashes with supporters of the PYD in Fishkhabor-Semalka border gate. The closure forced major cut to SDF oil sales.  Autonomous region of ...
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?

Wednesday 15 January 2025 ،
Rojava region.” So the construction of the new military base is primarily a protective step by Washington against Ankara’s threats against Kurdish-held areas, and that the future state of relations between the Kurds and the new government is something that should be determined through n ...
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges

Tuesday 21 January 2025 ،
Rojava unity in the new chapter of history of Syrian Kurds  Abdi's Erbil visit and his meeting with Barzani is not an ordinary visit and actually it is a response to Barzani's initiative to unite the Kurds in Syria.  The relation between KDP and the Democratic Unity Party (PYD) a ...

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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