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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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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?
Analysis

Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?

Monday 1 June 2026
members. It was a coordinated bid to reshape the balance of power in the Persian Gulf and rein in a country that refused to dance to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi’s tune. But the pressure campaign did not pan out the way its architects had hoped. Iran stepped in, opening up its airspace, ports, and tr ...
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Yielding to Ceasefire: Why’s Trump Agreed to Iran War End?
Analysis

Yielding to Ceasefire: Why’s Trump Agreed to Iran War End?

Tuesday 16 June 2026 ،
member of the Atlantic Council commented on the chasm between the allies, saying that this is a stark moment of diverging interests between the US and Israel. Reuters also cited a senior Israeli official describing the agreement as disasterous to Tel Aviv. According to the report, cases that at th ...
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy

Thursday 25 June 2026 ،
members fled to the Israeli regime, and a structure painstakingly built over nearly two decades to maintain the security belt unraveled with no strategic gain to show for it. More critically, Israel's pullout did not weaken Hezbollah, but it elevated the group into a symbol of victory over the s ...
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Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf
Analysis

Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
member states issued a joint statement rejecting Iran's imposition of tolls on Hormuz transits. In a comment, Rubio said that if Iran wants to toll the transit in the Strait of Hormuz, this will spread in the world like virus and then any country can try to impose transit fees on the internatio ...
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Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered
Report

Iraq Crackdown on Corruption: Ex-officials Detained, Billions in Cash and Gold Recovered

Monday 29 June 2026 ،
members of parliament and previous government officials. According to security and media resources, the operation was launched in the early hours of Sunday morning with the closure of all gates of the Green Zone. A convoy of armored vehicles operated by the Counterterrorism Service entered the Gree ...
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Ditching Its S-400s, What Will Turkey Do with Defense Challenges against Rivals?
Report

Ditching Its S-400s, What Will Turkey Do with Defense Challenges against Rivals?

Wednesday 22 July 2026 ،
member had purchased Russia’s most advanced air-defense system, a move the West saw as a troubling signal of Ankara drifting toward Moscow and cracking the alliance’s security unity. Ankara, for its part, was determined to show that it was no longer a subordinate ally and had other optio ...
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Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran
Report

Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran

Tuesday 28 July 2026 ،
member have taken different standings, calling for respect to Iran's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and legitimate rights. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as the biggest regional organization in Eurasia has voiced one of the strongest oppositions to the anti-Iranian ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
Analysis

Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
member states never actually joined the fight on the ground; others limited their role to political backing. Egypt and Pakistan, two major military powers in the Islamic bloc with close ties to Riyadh, carefully kept their forces out of Yemen’s quagmire altogether. In the end, a coalition tha ...
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
members. If a group continues armed operations after political, financial, and intelligence measures have been exhausted, the government can reframe the case, from a political disagreement to a national security threat. At that point, operations would focus on specific individuals, field leader dete ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
members of this agreement would participate in each other's defense have not yet been specified, and no joint defense force has been formed. Moreover, there are other serious obstacles, including the fact that Pakistan and Turkey have considerations regarding regional cases, and Ankara also has ...

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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.