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

Sunday 8 December 2024
Arabia, where his father worked as an oil engineer. Al-Jolani's family moved to Syria in 1989 and settled near Damascus. Little is known about his time in Damascus before he went to Iraq in 2003, the year Iraq was occupied by American forces and al-Jolani went to the country to fight as a memb ...
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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 ،
Arab country. In general, the claimants of power in post-Assad Syria can be divided in three categories:  Armed takfiri groups: There is no doubt that the armed takfiri groups will be the largest bloc claiming power in Syria after Bashar al-Assad. The Tahrir al-Sham Front has presented the lar ...
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Can Syria Collapse Scenario Be Applied to Yemen’s Ansarullah?
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Can Syria Collapse Scenario Be Applied to Yemen’s Ansarullah?

Monday 16 December 2024 ،
Arab countries and even the armed opposition that are celebrating their power gain.  Intoxicated by this easy gain, Netanyahu has once again talked about his ambitions and changing the regional order. Meanwhile, in recent days, Israeli media put Yemen on the top of the next targets of Netanyah ...
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Syria, a History of Anti-Israeli Occupation Fight
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Syria, a History of Anti-Israeli Occupation Fight

Wednesday 18 December 2024 ،
Arab nationalism in support of Palestine is the element that has been passed to today from generations and set up a serious barrier ahead of Israeli implementation of expansionist plans.  Syria in Arab-Israeli dispute  Though under 54 years of Assad family rule, the country was a staunch ...
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Shedding Light on Roots of Crisis in Kheybar Pakhtunkhwa and the Effective Actors
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Shedding Light on Roots of Crisis in Kheybar Pakhtunkhwa and the Effective Actors

Wednesday 25 December 2024 ،
Arabs from other tribes in Central Asia to their groups. Indeed, in addition to this, support is provided to them by the Western intelligence services like CIA, Mossad, and MI6. It is said that Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban are ostensibly separate from each other, but ideologically they a ...
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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 ،
Arab and Western media, by showing the leaders of the HTS in civilian clothes and ties, try to pretend that these people have forsaken their previous policies and approaches and in other words became civilized, the reality on the ground and the systematic brutal methods of assassination, humiliation ...
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France Announces Airstrikes on ISIS Positions in Syria
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France Announces Airstrikes on ISIS Positions in Syria

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Arabic term Daesh. According to the French Defense Ministry, Rafale fighter jets and US-made Reaper drones dropped seven bombs on two IS military targets in central Syria. France has been part of the international Inherent Resolve coalition against ISIS since 2014 in Iraq and 2015 in Syria, with Fr ...
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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 ،
Arab forces that they should not attack the Rojava region.” So the construction of the new military base is primarily a protective step by Washington against Ankara’s threats against Kurdish-held areas, and that the future state of relations between the Kurds and the new government is s ...
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Amid Anti-Hezbollah Plots, Will Lebanon’s "Golden Equation" End?
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Amid Anti-Hezbollah Plots, Will Lebanon’s "Golden Equation" End?

Thursday 16 January 2025 ،
Arabia, as well as Tahrir al-Sham group in Syria, because Hezbollah fought ISIS terrorists in Syria since 2011 and made sacrifices to prevent seizure of power to by takfiris. So, this is one of the complicated and highly sensitive isssues. We should wait and see what approach the government and new ...
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Outlook of Ansarullah-Israel Confrontation after Gaza Ceasefire
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Outlook of Ansarullah-Israel Confrontation after Gaza Ceasefire

Monday 20 January 2025 ،
Arab sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf to destroy this movement have not yielded the necessary results, and with Israel's absence from the anti-Yemeni coalition, Ansarallah has become stronger every day than before, so Tel Aviv must individually lead the campaign against Yemen. Therefore, in recen ...

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Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures

Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures