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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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Trump’s 60-Day Window for Unilateral Military Action Closing: What Are His Escape Ways?
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Trump’s 60-Day Window for Unilateral Military Action Closing: What Are His Escape Ways?

Thursday 30 April 2026
of self-defense, existing AUMFs, or emergency actions. Alwaght- The US military amasses a major portion of its naval capability including aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear submarines, and strategic bombers along with tens of thousands of forces around Iranian land and sea borders while the Whit ...
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Iraqi Parties Locked in Intense Negotiations for Bigger Cabinet Share as New PM Starts Talks
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Iraqi Parties Locked in Intense Negotiations for Bigger Cabinet Share as New PM Starts Talks

Sunday 10 May 2026 ،
of Iraqi prime minister, politician factions are pushing to consolidate their share and position in the new government, something making Baghdad, Erbil, and Suleimanyeh scenes of political horse-trading. In this connection, Odai Abdulhadi, a member of the ruling parliamentary bloc Shiite Coordinati ...
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Strait of Hormuz, the Field Determining the War of Wills
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Strait of Hormuz, the Field Determining the War of Wills

Tuesday 12 May 2026 ،
of the Strait of Hormuz while the US struggles to reverse the new dynamics. Alwaght- The developments of recent days in the Persian Gulf and reports of confrontations between IRGC and American naval forces have shown that in deeper layers of the ceasefire that followed the US-Israeli aggression on I ...
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From Hegemony to Hormuz: The US Decline and Rise of Multipolar World Order
Analysis

From Hegemony to Hormuz: The US Decline and Rise of Multipolar World Order

Monday 18 May 2026 ،
of Afghanistan in 2001 and then Iraq in 2003 intended to consolidate its hegemony in the world. Such politicians as Condoleezza Rice openly talked about the New Middle East and the Greater Middle East, with central aim being blockading Iran and and reshaping the region in the favor of Washington and ...
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Tel Aviv on Sexual Violence Blacklist: International Laws and Crisis of Israeli Impunity
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Tel Aviv on Sexual Violence Blacklist: International Laws and Crisis of Israeli Impunity

Sunday 31 May 2026 ،
of the basic human rights in the wars are the Israelis. In recent days, the latest update of the UN blacklist of the sexual criminals in wars named Israeli security institutions as the most serious violators of the war laws that aimed at countering sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of ...
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Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"
Analysis

Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"

Sunday 7 June 2026 ،
of resistance against all of the Israeli and American pressures for disarming, in another part of Axis of Resistance something different is happening and the firm forte of the Iraqi resistance weapons is being penetrated not by foreign attacks by the Trojan Horse of the internal competitions. After ...
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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert
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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert

Monday 15 June 2026 ،
of the Iraq's resistance in the light of the statement of the Shiite Coordination Framework about the need for the Public Mobilization Forces to cut off relations to the partisan and political factions , Iranian analyst and head of the Andisheh Sazan-e-Nour Institute for Strategic Studies, Ahmad ...
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Israel Military Deployment to Jordan Borders: Aims and Consequences
Analysis

Israel Military Deployment to Jordan Borders: Aims and Consequences

Monday 15 June 2026 ،
of reasons, among them geopolitical ones. Alwaght- The Israeli regime that in recent years through expansion into Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza has tried to move its security belt beyond its borders now is looking to the eastern front and is starting new activities in the West Bank and near the Jordanian ...
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New Syria: Israel’s New Proxy in Lebanon or Tool for Engineering Regional Order?
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New Syria: Israel’s New Proxy in Lebanon or Tool for Engineering Regional Order?

Thursday 18 June 2026 ،
of Syria playing a role in Lebanon to complete the mission the Israeli regime has started against Hezbollah are not simply tactical or media positions. Rather, they bear signs of a broader American plan to redesign the balance of power in the region. The reality is that Trump in his words just cont ...
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Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey
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Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey

Thursday 2 July 2026 ،
of divide and rule has long been a staple of diplomacy, particularly wielded by colonial powers to expand their spheres of influence. And in today's era, this tactic is alive and well, just as it was in the days of empire. The Israeli cabinet's recent decision to recognize the Armenian genoc ...

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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.