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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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Iranian Flight Suspension Tests Iraq’s Sovereignty Amid US Pressure
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Iranian Flight Suspension Tests Iraq’s Sovereignty Amid US Pressure

Saturday 26 September 2026
Baghdad’s ability to assert its sovereignty and maintain political independence as pressure from Washington intensifies. Mazaheri said the suspension followed a September 8 US Treasury warning that airports serving Iranian flights could lose access to the US dollar clearing system. He attribu ...
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Iran Flights Embargo and Test of Iraq’s Sovereignty
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Iran Flights Embargo and Test of Iraq’s Sovereignty

Monday 28 September 2026 ،
Baghdad International Airport, all arrivals and departures to and from Iran were grounded at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports as well. Close political ties and geographic proximity, religious affinity and unbreakable historical and cultural bonds, extensive economic partnership and wide-ranging bord ...
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
Baghdad on April 9, created the impression that the mission would be accomplished successfully. Bush himself hastily staged a victory celebration aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with a large banner behind him reading 'Mission Accomplished.' He told those who had carried out the 9/11 attacks ...
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
Baghdad-Washington relations, can affect the role of the Iraqi forces to protect security, the scale of foreign influence in this country, the regional balance of power, and the future of Iraqi security. Alwaght has talked to West Asia affairs expert Asghar Zaree, asking him questions in this regar ...
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Baghdad. Alwaght- The US military pull-out of Iraq on September 30 marked an end to a 23-year-long occupation period. A major part of the American forces had been withdrawn over the past few years and in the closing day of their presence, the remaining equipment and hundreds of troops stationed in t ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Baghdad fell in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary at the time, was asked how long they would stay in Iraq. He arrogantly replied that they'd be there for 30 years for now, and would figure out later how to define their strategic objectives. But in the end, in 2011, the Democratic O ...
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
Baghdad will continue. This shift in view for some political experts in the US does not necessarily mean putting Iraq aside from the US policy. Victoria Taylor, who directs the Iraq Initiative and Syria Project at the Atlantic Council and previously served at the State Department, argues the real t ...
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
Baghdad political and security situation after this exit. In quest for answers to these questions, Alwaght has talked to Seyyed Hashem Mousavi, a West Asia affairs expert, asking him for comments about the aspects and outcomes of this US military exit and Washington's new instruments to maintai ...
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Iraq, the Graveyard of American Military Strategy in West Asia
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Iraq, the Graveyard of American Military Strategy in West Asia

Sunday 11 October 2026 ،
Baghdad nor cementing an American-aligned order. On the contrary, it was the Islamic resistance in Iraq that won and transformed the power equations totally after two decades. In this strategic defeat for the US in West Asia, the resistance factions, the will of the Iraqi people, and the Islamic Re ...
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
Baghdad but out of fear of Iran’s military power and an admission of defeat in its strategy of military presence in the region as a result of the 40-day war. Critics say the tightening of full access to information is a calculated political strategy to conceal military defeat in the war. In ...

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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.