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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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Moscow: Ukraine Poised to Strike Russia from NATO Soil
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Moscow: Ukraine Poised to Strike Russia from NATO Soil

Tuesday 19 May 2026
Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu warned in April that if Baltic states and Finland deliberately provide their airspace to Ukrainian UAVs, Moscow reserves the right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter.
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Moscow: UN Shows Double Standards on Iran; US, Israel Behind UAE Plant Attack
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Moscow: UN Shows Double Standards on Iran; US, Israel Behind UAE Plant Attack

Wednesday 20 May 2026 ،
Council met to condemn a drone strike near a UAE reactor. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told an emergency Security Council briefing that the May 17 drone strike near the UAE's Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, while dangerous, is far from the first attack on a civilian nuclear facility in the ...
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Iran Urges UN Security Council to Punish Persian Gulf States for Backing US-Israeli Attack
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Iran Urges UN Security Council to Punish Persian Gulf States for Backing US-Israeli Attack

Saturday 23 May 2026 ،
Council to hold them responsible for their illegal conduct. Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani submitted a letter to the UN Secretary-General and Security Council demanding that several Persian Gulf Arab states and Jordan be held accountable for assisting the US-Israeli aggression against ...
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement
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Amid Mediators’ Visits to Tehran, Questions Rise about Terms of Any Iran-US Agreement

Sunday 24 May 2026 ،
Council players, likely Qatar and Saudi Arabia, at this stage, which lay bare the Persian Gulf Arab states’ fears and concerns. Abu Dhabi, for its part, is not in a state of full defensive readiness. But seeing itself as the biggest loser from current developments, and having effectively made ...
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Iran’s Frozen Assets in Qatar: Pressure Lever or Key to Agreement?
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Iran’s Frozen Assets in Qatar: Pressure Lever or Key to Agreement?

Tuesday 26 May 2026 ،
Council resolutions. So, release of the assets that are blocked in various countries, including Qatar, under the sanctions on Iran’s banking sector is one of the top preconditions. Currently, it is unclear exactly how much of the Iranian money is frozen abroad, but according to the estimates, ...
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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 ،
Council resolutions, including 1820, 1888, and 2467, also classify the use of sexual violence in war as a war crime, a crime against humanity, or a constitutive act of genocide. The resolutions further emphasize the need to protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable. Why does not internation ...
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?

Monday 1 June 2026 ،
Council. In June that year, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, along with Bahrain and Egypt, cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar and announced major economic and logistic sanctions on Doha. Saudi Arabia and the UAE seized the opportunity, fueled by their long-running hostility toward Qatar over its support ...
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Armenia Parliamentary Election: A Referendum to Choose between East and West
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Armenia Parliamentary Election: A Referendum to Choose between East and West

Thursday 4 June 2026 ،
Council President António Costa in attendance. The two sides signed agreements on cooperation in connectivity, transport, energy, digital infrastructure, and security, while vowing to deepen political and economic ties. The EU also announced a new civilian partnership mission in Armenia and a ...
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Beirut of Two Frames: How Can We See the Real Lebanon?
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Beirut of Two Frames: How Can We See the Real Lebanon?

Sunday 7 June 2026 ،
Council's resolution 1701, Israel continues its ground operations inside Lebanon. The occupation army has even gone beyond its stated buffer zone, re-occupying about 800 square kilometers of the Lebanese territory. Meanwhile, in the middle of ongoing ceasefire talks in Washington between the Le ...
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Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"
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Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"

Sunday 7 June 2026 ،
Internal and American pressures increase on Iraqi resistance factions to hand over arms, something serving evil next American steps for Iraq, including terrorism and partition. Alwaght- While in Lebanon Hezbollah has maintained its weapons of resistance against all of the Israeli and American pressu ...

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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.