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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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Hezbollah’s Renaissance after Sayyed Nasrallah’s Historic Funeral
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Hezbollah’s Renaissance after Sayyed Nasrallah’s Historic Funeral

Wednesday 26 February 2025
BBC reporter who was also covering the ceremony reported that although Hezbollah suffered damage after Nasrallah, the Lebanese resistance movement remains powerful in Lebanon.  Hezbollah's display of power  Though a sad event, the funeral of Hezbollah leaders turned into a show of st ...
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Iraq’s PMF Law: Gradual Integration or Maintaining Its Independence?
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Iraq’s PMF Law: Gradual Integration or Maintaining Its Independence?

Sunday 13 April 2025 ،
BBC reporter said that now that Tehran and Washington are engaged in talks, some parties in Iraq are talking about disarming the resistance forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a force formed in Iraq in opposition to ISIS terrorist group in 2014.  This was not the first time that ...
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism
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Turkic World Project Falling, Dealing Blow to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism

Monday 14 April 2025 ،
BBC Turkish service on Tuesday reported that Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in a meaningful move named ambassadors to Cyprus, showing a change in alignment of these countries with Ankara's political strategy towards Cyprus cause, something expected to deal a big blow to efforts of Anka ...
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Taliban No More on Russian Terror List: What’s Kremlin Seeking?
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Taliban No More on Russian Terror List: What’s Kremlin Seeking?

Monday 21 April 2025 ،
BBC that Mullah Omar, the spiritual leader of the Taliban, had suggested to Russia in 2001 that Moscow and the Taliban form a joint force to fight the US occupation, although the Taliban was ousted from power soon after the American-led Western invasion and a new government was formed in Kabul. In 2 ...
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Why’s Jordan Banned MB after 8 Decades of Activity?
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Why’s Jordan Banned MB after 8 Decades of Activity?

Sunday 27 April 2025 ،
BBC that Hamas is actually a branch of the Jordanian MB and that the basis for the formation of this resistance group in Gaza returns to the movement in Jordan. The Jordanian MB has been a supporter of the country's government for several decades. Jordanian authorities allowed it to operate in ...
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Why’s Tel Aviv Raised White Flag in War against Tehran?
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Why’s Tel Aviv Raised White Flag in War against Tehran?

Tuesday 24 June 2025 ،
BBC that the Iranian political system is more stable than it is being told, and that since Iran has a long history of commitment to modernization and technological development, Iran's capabilities cannot be easily destroyed with a bomb.  Daniel C. Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Israel, ...
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Israeli Soldiers Returning from Gaza War Increasingly Commit Suicide
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Israeli Soldiers Returning from Gaza War Increasingly Commit Suicide

Monday 14 July 2025 ،
BBC that the Gaza war was unlike any of Israel’s previous wars in terms of intensity, civilian casualties and killings. Bergman said what you see in Gaza are bodies being driven over by bulldozers and rubble, and the images are truly shocking, even for Israeli soldiers themselves. Increasing ...
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Just for Show: Why Are Aid Airdrops not a Solution to Gaza Catastrophe?
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Just for Show: Why Are Aid Airdrops not a Solution to Gaza Catastrophe?

Friday 8 August 2025 ،
BBC World, estimates that to provide food for each million of the 2 million population of Gaza, over 160 fights daily are needed, but now the flights of one day of relief operations in Gaza are hardly over 20. Riyad Osman, West Asia expert at Medico International, told a press conference in Berlin ...
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Gaza War, an Artery for Netanyahu’s Political Life
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Gaza War, an Artery for Netanyahu’s Political Life

Monday 25 August 2025 ،
BBC, new polls show that the vast majority of Israeli Jews are not concerned about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. A sample poll conducted in the last three days of July by the Israel Democracy Institute showed that 78 percent of Israeli Jews, who make up four-fifths of the population, believ ...
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Joined by Damascus, Washington and Tel Aviv Building Pressure on Hezbollah for Disarming
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Joined by Damascus, Washington and Tel Aviv Building Pressure on Hezbollah for Disarming

Saturday 13 September 2025 ،
BBC correspondent in Qatar confirmed this shift, reporting in the aftermath of the Doha bombing that these events have ultimately benefited Iran that is opposed to disarming, and that even those in Lebanon who once supported disarming Hezbollah are now having second thoughts. Beyond these immediate ...

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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.