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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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Carlson: Trump Surrenders His Position to Netanyahu
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Carlson: Trump Surrenders His Position to Netanyahu

Wednesday 20 May 2026
Court (ICC), with arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu and former war minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza. UN agencies have described deliberate attacks on civilian populations, including the use of man-made famine and starvation as tools of genocide. The regime co ...
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Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered
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Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered

Monday 29 June 2026 ،
Prime Minister's office and the judiciary, overseen by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi and Supreme Judicial Council Chief Faeq Zaidan, with the explicit goal of rooting out corruption from state institutions. The crackdown comes as reports indicate that the Iraqi government plans to soon submit a c ...
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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 ،
Court of Justice's provisional ruling recognizing a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, India risks complicity in serious violations of international law. Reports indicate New Delhi and Tel Aviv have negotiated billions in new contracts for 2025–2026, including a roughly $3.7 billion pack ...
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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 ،
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi, some of the most important ministries and the government's future plans for them remain in uncertainty. This comes as Iraq, impacted by regional tensions, is facing an array of political, security, and economic crises and the ruling majority, Shiite Coordination Fra ...
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
Court in rare instances. So what are the fault lines within Likud? Four critical issues hang in the balance: First, the voting mechanism: Will all 150,000 party members be eligible to vote, or will the right be restricted to the roughly 4,000 members of Likud's Central Committee? This is no me ...
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Court issued its arrest warrant, the Israeli prime minister has canceled some trips, rerouted flights, and leaned on extraordinary security measures just to set foot abroad. The playbook is now familiar: keep the itinerary dark, swap out aircraft, change routes on a whim, and coordinate obsessively ...
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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 ،
Prime Minister Benjamin is against the US initiative and still insists on fully disarming Hamas before any decision to withdraw from Gaza. On the opposite side, Hamas insists on withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces and has established a connection between disarming and the future Palestinian ...
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Elections in Land of Crisis: Netanyahu, Opposition, and Architecture of Israeli Future
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Elections in Land of Crisis: Netanyahu, Opposition, and Architecture of Israeli Future

Thursday 24 September 2026 ،
Court and other oversight bodies are among the most important institutional constraints on government power in Israel's political system, and Netanyahu's critics fear that if the ruling coalition wins again, efforts to weaken those constraints will resume. In its report on the timing of the ...
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Netanyahu’s Speech: A Slap at the UN, a Pain at Home
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Netanyahu’s Speech: A Slap at the UN, a Pain at Home

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
Court (ICC) for genocide and crimes against humanity, did nothing to ease his regime's global isolation at the UN gathering. Instead, it became a spectacle laying bare the depth of worldwide revulsion toward this illegitimate regime. Netanyahu tried to use the UN podium as a campaign platform t ...
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Israel’s Opposition Coalition: A Final Nail in the Netanyahu’s Coffin?
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Israel’s Opposition Coalition: A Final Nail in the Netanyahu’s Coffin?

Sunday 27 September 2026 ،
The Israeli opposition seem determined to show Netanyahu the door out of office as they grow further confident about victory in October elections. Alwaght- A month to the Israeli parliamentary elections, talks are growing heated for forming political coalitions. Leaders of the opposition political p ...

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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.