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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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Ditching Its S-400s, What Will Turkey Do with Defense Challenges against Rivals?
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Ditching Its S-400s, What Will Turkey Do with Defense Challenges against Rivals?

Wednesday 22 July 2026
deal that, according to the newspaper, has already received Russia’s initial go-ahead. From the very start, the S-400 case was never just an arms deal. It morphed into one of the most consequential strategic confrontations in Turkey-NATO relations, one that not only reshaped Ankara’s st ...
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Al-Hayya Elected Leader of Hamas: Continuing Sinwar’s Path or Starting a New Chapter?
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Al-Hayya Elected Leader of Hamas: Continuing Sinwar’s Path or Starting a New Chapter?

Saturday 25 July 2026 ،
deal is entering its second stage and the broader region is witnessing escalated conflict, the resistance movement decided to hold its internal election. According to Saudi-funded Al-Shargh news network, the last round of competition was a close one between al-Hayya and Mashal, with the latter final ...
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Have Arab Rulers Finally Woken Up from Deep Sleep to Reality?
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Have Arab Rulers Finally Woken Up from Deep Sleep to Reality?

Sunday 26 July 2026 ،
deals with Arab states, cobbled together security coalitions, and turned economic sanctions into a permanent cudgel against Tehran. In short, the Iranian threat was not just a security assessment, it was the very backbone of the American-designed order in the Persian Gulf. Today, however, the regio ...
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India, from an Importer of Israeli Arms to Israel’s Strategic Partner
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India, from an Importer of Israeli Arms to Israel’s Strategic Partner

Saturday 1 August 2026 ،
deals in recent years to buy and produce these missiles, with some manufacturing now taking place domestically. The expanding collaboration on guided missiles has gradually integrated India’s defense industry into Israeli supply chains, a development that analysts say transcends the traditiona ...
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
deal to settle the nominees for ministries currently run by caretakers. “Next week will be packed with meetings and deliberations,” he said. “As a result, a final agreement could be reached on mapping out the next phase’s contours, after which we will contact the parliament ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Arms Survey. In its 2017 data, the organization estimated that Iraqi civilians held roughly 7.59 million firearms, or about 19.6 guns per 100 people. Indeed, this figure does not mean that 19.6 percent of Iraqi population have arms, rather, it simply reflects the approximate ratio of civilian firea ...
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Trump’s Retreat on Gaza: Shifting from Eliminating Hamas to Talking with It
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Trump’s Retreat on Gaza: Shifting from Eliminating Hamas to Talking with It

Tuesday 18 August 2026 ،
deal. Hamas now the party Washington talking to The more important issue now is that the US talks with Hamas come at a time Tel Aviv has rejected Washington-designed initiative. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin is against the US initiative and still insists on fully disarming Hamas before any d ...
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Regional-Palestinian Backing Prevent Hamas Elimination from Gaza Dynamics
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Regional-Palestinian Backing Prevent Hamas Elimination from Gaza Dynamics

Tuesday 25 August 2026 ،
deal, charging that it has upended implementation by rejecting the roadmap, brushing aside agreements reached in the first phase, and persisting in daily violations and breaches. The session also took up the expansion of settlements, the regime's Judaization policies, and settler attacks on Pal ...
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining

Thursday 27 August 2026 ،
deal fight, when AIPAC threw its weight behind Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign against the accord, putting it on a collision course with the Obama administration. Then came Trump's presidency and the 2018 withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, which widened the rift within the Democratic Part ...
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence

Friday 28 August 2026 ،
deal on the country's most controversial issue, namely the fate of Kurdish militia structure and arms, ushering in a new stage in the Syrian developments. Mazloum Abdi, the chief of the Kurdish militia, on Tuesday met al-Sharaa and announced that the SDF have completed the process of integratio ...

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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.