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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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Pakistan-Afghanistan Borders Remain Insecure as Bilateral Distrust Dominates
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Pakistan-Afghanistan Borders Remain Insecure as Bilateral Distrust Dominates

Tuesday 24 February 2026
Afghanistan, claiming it targeted terrorists acting against its security and interests. Alwaght- Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have once again sparked and for the second time in less than a year, the relations of the neighbors have gone critical.  The rejuvenated round of confronta ...
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Iran War Sounding NATO Death Knell
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Iran War Sounding NATO Death Knell

Thursday 19 March 2026 ،
Afghanistan, but during the war against Iran, they chose to take a different approach. In the first week of the Ramadan War, Western media included claims in their lists about missile attack targets attributed to Iran that also featured the interests and positions of countries like Britain, France, ...
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Boots on the Ground? Trump and His Last Gamble in Iran War
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Boots on the Ground? Trump and His Last Gamble in Iran War

Tuesday 31 March 2026 ،
Afghanistan wars. While the US initially launched its assault on Iran under the guise of fabricated threats to its interests, events soon took a dramatically different turn. The landscape shifted, fueled by the proliferation of social media, a burgeoning public awareness, and Donald Trump’s no ...
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China, the Big Winner of Trump’s War on Iran
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China, the Big Winner of Trump’s War on Iran

Wednesday 8 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan, Trump preferred to close files outright rather than leave them suspended. And he wanted to close them loudly, in Hollywood movies' style , and fast, as happened in Venezuela. He could then claim he had solved the Venezuela problem once and for all, in an operation that, unusually fo ...
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Can Trump Really Blockade Iran?
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Can Trump Really Blockade Iran?

Tuesday 14 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan. So, American maritime blockade of Iran does not mean full restriction of Iranian trade routes. After all, Iran has various borders with its neighbors, a geographic advantage opening Iran's hands to bypass the US-imposed blockade of the Persian Gulf. 
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Why’s not NATO Standing by US in Iran War?
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Why’s not NATO Standing by US in Iran War?

Wednesday 15 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan, and Libya. NATO effectively became an extension of American military, logistical, and operational power around the world, especially in west Asia. This was unsurprising, as the US, the new global superpower, was the main financial and technological contributor, shouldering the bulk of N ...
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Motasim Agha Jan Detention: Restricting the Influential Figure of Taliban
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Motasim Agha Jan Detention: Restricting the Influential Figure of Taliban

Saturday 18 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan, triggering rumors about the internal gaps and power struggle within the helm of rule in Kabul. Now the question is who is Motasim Agha Jan and what is behind the recent day's developments in Kandahar? Essentially, what does this detention disclose from the labyrinthine structure of ...
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What’s Driving Pakistani Meditation in US-Iran Crisis?
Analysis

What’s Driving Pakistani Meditation in US-Iran Crisis?

Tuesday 21 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan. As past regional crises have shown, if the Persian Gulf war expands beyond its current borders, it could unleash a fresh wave of insecurity, population displacement, and a surge of weapons and drugs into Pakistani territory. The so-called “Greater Middle East” project, aime ...
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Humiliated Superpower: How US Levers Are Going Dull in Push to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
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Humiliated Superpower: How US Levers Are Going Dull in Push to Reopen Strait of Hormuz

Thursday 30 April 2026 ،
Afghanistan, refused to walk straight back into another trap set by Washington. So much so that Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez bluntly stated that his country had been deceived by the U.S. over the Iraq War—and that they wouldn’t repeat that mistake. This mindset reflects a ...
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From Hegemony to Hormuz: The US Decline and Rise of Multipolar World Order
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From Hegemony to Hormuz: The US Decline and Rise of Multipolar World Order

Monday 18 May 2026 ،
Afghanistan in 2001 and then Iraq in 2003 intended to consolidate its hegemony in the world. Such politicians as Condoleezza Rice openly talked about the New Middle East and the Greater Middle East, with central aim being blockading Iran and and reshaping the region in the favor of Washington and it ...

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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.