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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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Saudi Arabia Says It Will Build First Nuclear Power Plant

Saudi Arabia Says It Will Build First Nuclear Power Plant

Tuesday 26 September 2023
bin Salman said in an address to the annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Monday that the building operations for the country’s first nuclear plant, known as the National Atomic Energy Project, will be carried out in close cooperatio ...
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Saudi-Israeli Normalization Unlikely in Short Run: Expert

Saudi-Israeli Normalization Unlikely in Short Run: Expert

Thursday 28 September 2023 ،
bin Salman and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed that their positions are now closer to each other. Meanwhile, a Saudi delegation has visited the occupied West Bank for the first time in0l three decades to talk to the Palestinian Authority, a move experts say is meant to reassure ...
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Saudi Court Sentences Media Activists to Decades in Prison over Critical Posts

Saudi Court Sentences Media Activists to Decades in Prison over Critical Posts

Wednesday 4 October 2023 ،
bin Salman confirmed the death sentence against the professor, saying, “[This conviction] embarrasses us. But I can’t tell a judge [to ignore] the law. That would go against the rule of law.” In August 2022, the same Saudi court raised the prison sentence against the PhD student&n ...
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US Stonewalling Gaza Ceasefire: Iran President

US Stonewalling Gaza Ceasefire: Iran President

Saturday 11 November 2023 ،
bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He went on to state that the Iranian request for an extraordinary summit on Gaza conflict dates back to a month ago. “Heads of Muslim countries are expected to come up wit ...
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Bahrain Crown Prince Condemns Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Storm Operation

Bahrain Crown Prince Condemns Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Storm Operation

Saturday 18 November 2023 ،
bin Hamad Al Khalifa told the Bahrain Security Conference on Friday. The attacks on October 7th were barbaric, he added. Waged against the occupied territories, the Palestinian operation, dubbed al-Aqsa Storm, resulted in the deaths of some 1,400 Israeli forces and settlers, and the captivity of h ...
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US Vetoes UN Security Council Call for Ceasefire in Israeli Regime’s War on Gaza

US Vetoes UN Security Council Call for Ceasefire in Israeli Regime’s War on Gaza

Saturday 9 December 2023 ،
bings, blockades and occupation,” Corbyn added. Tonight, the UK refused to back a UN resolution for a ceasefire. We mourn those who will die because their lives were deemed unworthy of protection. The vote came after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres formally warned the 15-member counci ...
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Pres. Raisi’s Moscow Visit New Acceleration to Soaring Iranian-Russian Ties

Pres. Raisi’s Moscow Visit New Acceleration to Soaring Iranian-Russian Ties

Saturday 9 December 2023 ،
bing cooperation with Russia as serving Iran’s neighborliness policy. Pointing to the good cooperation between Iran and Russia in the fields of energy, agriculture and knowledge enterprises, the president emphasized the availability of the ground to take more effective steps in the development ...
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Saudi Arabia Executes 7 Men, Largest Number since 2022

Saudi Arabia Executes 7 Men, Largest Number since 2022

Wednesday 28 February 2024 ،
bin Salman as the country’s crown prince and de facto ruler and his father. It highlighted that there was an average of 129.5 executions per year from 2015 to 2022, marking an increase of 82%.
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How did the ambitious projects of bin Salman drain Saudi Arabia’s resources?

How did the ambitious projects of bin Salman drain Saudi Arabia’s resources?

Tuesday 12 March 2024 ،
Salman, who envisions a prosperous Saudi Arabia through his ambitious projects, has actually caused the country to confront an 80% surge in budget deficit Bin Salman, who envisions a prosperous Saudi Arabia through his ambitious projects, has actually caused the country to confront an 80% surge in b ...
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Bahrain Royal Amnesty Decree and Challenge of Mending Ruling Family’s Image

Bahrain Royal Amnesty Decree and Challenge of Mending Ruling Family’s Image

Friday 12 April 2024 ،
bin Issa Al Khalifa took the throne in the tiny Persian Gulf island monarchy on March 6, 1999. The statement published by the state media contained informatin if the decree includes the political prisoners, but given the mentioning of the riot prisoners that included prisoners that were arrested du ...

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Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies