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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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Syria Entered Dark Tunnel, Axis of Resistance to Press on without Damascus: Expert
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Syria Entered Dark Tunnel, Axis of Resistance to Press on without Damascus: Expert

Sunday 8 December 2024
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the head of Tahrir Al-Sham as the main force having toppled al-Assad and now the top man of Syria, in a short speech outlined the security and political situation in Syria. Al-Jolani, whose real name is Ahmad al-Sharaa, issued instructions to all militants in Damascus, tellin ...
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Friends or Foes? Syria Armed Rebels a Double-edged Sword for Israel
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Friends or Foes? Syria Armed Rebels a Double-edged Sword for Israel

Tuesday 10 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been leading the opposition groups advancing towards Damascus over the past week. At the time of the fall of Assad, al-Jolani also announced the advance towards Damascus and the beginning of the work of the rebel groups in Damascus in his statements and videos, and in a w ...
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Iran Urged Assad to Address Syrian People’s Demands, says Speaker Qalibaf
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Iran Urged Assad to Address Syrian People’s Demands, says Speaker Qalibaf

Monday 9 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani announced that Syrian state institutions would temporarily operate under Prime Minister Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali until a transition of power occurs. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called for dialogue between opposing factions in Syria, emphasizing that the Syrian people m ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria
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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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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria

Sunday 22 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, with the aim of assessing the group's plan for administration of Syria after fall of President Bashar al-Assad's government. The US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger D. Carstens, and the US Envoy for S ...
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What Are the Big Obstacles ahead of HTS Ruling Syria?
Analysis

What Are the Big Obstacles ahead of HTS Ruling Syria?

Friday 27 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has hectic days being new leader of Syria and almost everyday hosts foreign diplomats and officials. The conditions in Syria are relatively calm, but will this calm last long or is it just the lull before the storm? Everything about Syria future has to do with functions of t ...
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HTS’s Violence against Minorities Activates Security Fault Lines in Syria
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HTS’s Violence against Minorities Activates Security Fault Lines in Syria

Monday 30 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, appears in front of cameras and promises respect for democracy, rights of the minorities, and holy shrines while his loyalists are doing vise versa. As predicted, the Alawites were the first minority that fell victim to the violence of the armed groups.  In this connect ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani paves the way for resurgence of ISIS.  For this reason, the Iraqi security delegation headed by the country's intelligence chief recently visited Damascus to remind the new Syrian rulers of Iraq's security red lines.  However, the visit, instructed by Iraqi ...
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What’s Driving Al-Jolani’s Riyadh Visit?
Analysis

What’s Driving Al-Jolani’s Riyadh Visit?

Monday 3 February 2025 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who has recently been appointed by an allied military council as president of Syria for transitional period, on Sunday visited Saudi Arabia along with his Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani. Upong his arrival in Riyadh, al-Sharaa was received by Mohammed Abdel Rahman, the de ...
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HTS Aggressions on Lebanon Borders: A New Conflict with Regional Fallouts
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HTS Aggressions on Lebanon Borders: A New Conflict with Regional Fallouts

Monday 10 February 2025 ،
Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has repeatedly claimed that the armed groups under his command do not pose threat to neighboring countries. However, the experience of the past two months has shown that these groups not only are not seeking to establish order and security in Syria and provide security on the ...

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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