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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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Minab School Crime: Why’s US Angry with ICC Judges for Iran Visit?
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Minab School Crime: Why’s US Angry with ICC Judges for Iran Visit?

Saturday 18 July 2026
2015, a US AC-130 gunship struck a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, killing 42 patients and staff members. The US military later described the attack as the result of a cascade of human errors and intelligence failures, acknowledging that rules of engagement had been vi ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
2015, it boasted of a nine-nation Arab and Islamic coalition that would upend the battlefield and defeat Ansarullah. Saudi media at the time billed the alliance as a decisive force that would end Ansarullah's rule for good. But subsequent events proved that battlefield realities bore little rese ...
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Yemen War’s New Rules: Saudi Sticks to Old Playbook
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Yemen War’s New Rules: Saudi Sticks to Old Playbook

Monday 17 August 2026 ،
2015, these days Riyadh's moves, especially the political and military coalition making, indicate the kingdom's play with the old pieces. This is while the game theater has changed in Yemen and now the main issue is no longer who wins, but who dictates the new rules of engagement. After yea ...
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Trump’s New Sanctions Plan against Iran Futile, Observers Argue
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Trump’s New Sanctions Plan against Iran Futile, Observers Argue

Sunday 23 August 2026 ،
2015 nuclear deal, has been far blunter than most American officials about the limits of new sanctions on Iran. Eyre dismissed in an interview with Al Jazeera the latest Trump administration sanctions, saying: “The tree of sanctions has already been picked.” He attributed the move to US ...
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining

Thursday 27 August 2026 ،
2015, during the Iran nuclear deal fight, when AIPAC threw its weight behind Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign against the accord, putting it on a collision course with the Obama administration. Then came Trump's presidency and the 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, which widened the r ...
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence

Friday 28 August 2026 ،
2015 amid Syrian civil war, when Bashar al-Assad was in power. The militant coalition was a multi-sectarian bloc consisted of People's Protection Units (YPG) and Women's Protection Units (YPJ), as well as other Kurdish, Arab, and Asyrian groups. Supported by the US, the group joined fightin ...
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
2015, Tel Aviv was one of the principal players on the war's stage, and the core aim of that involvement was to remove the threat to the regime's security and economy in the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb, and to erect a barrier to contain Ansarullah. That cooperation continued in the years ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
2015 coalition against Yemen, refrained from meaningful participation. Now the Pakistani reaction to the Mecca incident is exactly what Riyadh wants. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a post on X, condemned what he called the cowardly attack, expressing his condemnation in the strongest p ...
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UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US
Analysis

UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
2015 attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz became one of the most notorious cases of civilian casualties in US operations. The AC-130 gunship strike on the medical facility killed at least 42 people. A US military investigation identified some violations and errors, and human rights ...
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From Chips to Iran War: Xi-Trump’s Hard Discussions
Analysis

From Chips to Iran War: Xi-Trump’s Hard Discussions

Friday 25 September 2026 ،
2015 and a sign of the significance of talks between the two rival powers at the present time. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson described the trade of visits of the two leaders in four months as historic, adding that this will serve to guide the strategic relations of Beijing and Washington. T ...

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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.