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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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US Failed to Reach Goals behind Gen. Soleimani Assassination, Resistance Discourse Now Deeper Entrenched: Expert

US Failed to Reach Goals behind Gen. Soleimani Assassination, Resistance Discourse Now Deeper Entrenched: Expert

Saturday 8 January 2022
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis by a direct order from Donald Trump, revisiting the regional situation and the goals behind the assassination look quite crucial.  Two years after the widely-condemned crime, a question presents itself : Have the Americans realized the goals they sought behind the assassi ...
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ISIS Syria Chief "Removed" in Special Operation: Biden

ISIS Syria Chief "Removed" in Special Operation: Biden

Friday 4 February 2022 ،
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi “off the battlefield.”  Reports also suggest that a dozen civilians, including six children and four women, were killed.  “Last night at my direction, U.S. military forces in the northwest Syria successfully undertook a counterterroris ...
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Turkish Military Presence in Iraq and the Likely Scenarios

Turkish Military Presence in Iraq and the Likely Scenarios

Saturday 5 February 2022 ،
Abu Alaa al-Wilaee, the commander of Sayed Al-Shuhada Brigades, a Shiite force founded along others in opposition to ISIS terrorist organization, said: Our bad neighbor [Turkey] moves deep into the Iraqi soil calmly and without any deterrence or even opposing stances from our government; the same go ...
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What’s Behind US Elimination of ISIS Leader?

What’s Behind US Elimination of ISIS Leader?

Monday 7 February 2022 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019 and the announcement of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as his successor, security and intelligence agencies stepped up their operations to identify the new and unknown leader. According to media reports about al-Qurashi, the real name of the slain second ISIS leader ...
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Raqqa: Revisiting  Big Crime by US

Raqqa: Revisiting Big Crime by US

Saturday 23 April 2022 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In fact, for ISIS it was a promised land. Historically, the city was the seat of the Abbasid rule, and among other Islamic sites the historical monuments of this city were of great importance. However, during the attacks staged by  the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kur ...
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Will Al-Zawahiri Killing Serve ISIS Interests?

Will Al-Zawahiri Killing Serve ISIS Interests?

Friday 5 August 2022 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's declaration of caliphate. Undoubtedly, with the removal of a fierce ISIS rival such as al-Qaeda, the White House will greatly assist the efforts of the terrorist group to recruit and expand its scope of activity in Central Asia.  Although it is difficult to estimate ...
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What’s New US Plot for Syria and Iraq?

What’s New US Plot for Syria and Iraq?

Thursday 25 August 2022 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi from Bucca prison in 2009, which led to the establishment of ISIS. ISIS threats in Iraq have been growing in the past year, and it seems that the White House officials want to use the ISIS lever to put pressure on the Iraqi leaders for concessions.  The US selected an area ...
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The Barzanis and the tactic of removing traces

The Barzanis and the tactic of removing traces

Saturday 27 January 2024 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for the expansion of the territorial empire of this imaginary hellish terrorist group. During the challenging days when regional leaders confronted ISIS's rapid advance towards Erbil, numerous accounts highlight the situation. While leaders from the West, Arab nations, and ...
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Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?

Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?

Sunday 8 December 2024 ،
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS terrorist organization.  In April 2013, al-Baghdadi abruptly announced that his group was cutting ties with Al-Qaeda and establishing his own new organization in Syria. In his first television interview in 2014, al-Jolani told Aljazeera that Syria shou ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Saturday 14 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s advisors, to monopolize the fatwa-issuing process and, by limiting the role of salafi scholars in the process, it wanted to prevent the possibility of informal and extremist interpretations of Islamic law. Also, there are reports that the HTS supressed the ISIS nuclei ...

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