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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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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project
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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project

Thursday 19 December 2024
American forces from Syria, limiting Iranian influence in Syria, and limiting arms smuggling from Syrian soil to Hezbollah. In addition, Israel may use Europe’s need for new energy sources to convince them to throw their weight behind the corridor, which could transport oil and gas from Kurdis ...
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Netanyahu’s Push for Longer War Can Kill More Prisoners
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Netanyahu’s Push for Longer War Can Kill More Prisoners

Sunday 29 December 2024 ،
American and Egyptian mediation said to be implemented soon. But at the end, for what is said to be personal motivations Netanyahu reneged at the last moment, leaving the prospects of end of war in limbo.  Documents of killing of the prisoners  The killing of Israeli prisoners by Israeli ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
American helicopters carried them to safety. There are even report of the US forces airdropping weapons to ISIS terrorists.  Alla al-Nashoo, an Iraqi security expert, commented on the broken ranks and organizational weaknesses of ISIS in an interview with Eram News, saying that ISIS has ended ...
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?

Wednesday 15 January 2025 ،
American troops in Afghanistan in 2011 and over 160,000 in Iraq in 2007. While this number has been greatly reduced since the US military’s ignominious withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, estimates suggest that there are still around 30,000 American troops scattered throughout the region. In ...
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Why’s Netanyahu Agreed to Gaza Ceasefire?
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Why’s Netanyahu Agreed to Gaza Ceasefire?

Friday 17 January 2025 ،
Americans took to the streets in central Chicago, waving Palestinian flags. They celebrated ceasefire in Gaza. Not only in the US, but also in other Western countries like Sweden and Span people celebrated the ceasefire, all emphasizing that Gaza will once again rise out of the ashes and re-embrace ...
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How’s Gaza War Impacted Israeli Society?
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How’s Gaza War Impacted Israeli Society?

Sunday 19 January 2025 ،
American-funded The Atlantic think tank about the repercussions of the Gaza war on the Israeli economy reveals significant data about the Israeli economic crisis as the war unfolded:  A sudden drop in GDP: Israel's high-tech sector, with its extensive exports, positively influenced 32 perc ...
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Four Israeli Settlers Injured in a Resistance-led Stabbing Operation in Tel Aviv
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Four Israeli Settlers Injured in a Resistance-led Stabbing Operation in Tel Aviv

Wednesday 22 January 2025 ،
American who was later shot and killed by Israeli forces. Israeli police urged settlers to avoid the area as they continued to assess the situation. Meanwhile, Palestinian media reported attacks by settlers on the villages of Jinsafut and al-Funduq, where homes and vehicles were set ablaze. Inciden ...
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What’s Trump Seeking behind Pressure on Taliban?
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What’s Trump Seeking behind Pressure on Taliban?

Friday 7 February 2025 ،
American prisoners in Kabul before Trump took the office, but they had delayed the deal until Trump was sworn in. The release of the two Americans under Trump despite deal under Biden was a kind of green light to Trump showing that the Taliban are ready to cooperate with the new American administrat ...
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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 ،
American project  Since all moves of the armed groups in Syria are dictated by the regional and transregional actors, some observers suggest that the adventures on the Lebanese border are part of this puzzle.  Hassan Hanizadeh, a West Asia affairs expert, in an interview with Alwaght com ...
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Ukraine and End of Deep Sleep with Trump’s Slap
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Ukraine and End of Deep Sleep with Trump’s Slap

Monday 24 February 2025 ،
American diplomats held in Saudi capital Riyadh their first face-to-face meeting since start of Ukraine war that started earlier in 2022. After fours hours, the two sides agreed to form a team aimed at ending the three-year war and also they agreed that Washington and Moscow will revive their diplom ...

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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