Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

Editor's Choice

News

Most Viewed

Day Week Month

In Focus

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
New node

New node

Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on

alwaght.net
Trump Foreign Aid Cuts: Losing Global Influence to China
Report

Trump Foreign Aid Cuts: Losing Global Influence to China

Saturday 15 February 2025
Eastern Europe and strategic partners in Africa and Asia, feel abandoned, and this has led some of these countries to seek alternative alliances. Also, with the US aid cutoff, such organization as the UN, World Health Organization, and the World Bank will suffer under financing, and in many cases, ...
alwaght.net
Iran Takes Center Stage in Regional Gas Swap as New Energy Age Emerges
Analysis

Iran Takes Center Stage in Regional Gas Swap as New Energy Age Emerges

Sunday 16 February 2025 ،
East Asias gas needs, and therefore, with development of these transit corridors, Iran can be a linking ring between the East and the West.  Additionally, gas swap via Iran can weaken other rival projects like Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline and improve the Iranian position in the energy markets. ...
alwaght.net
Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?
Analysis

Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?

Thursday 20 February 2025 ،
Eastern Europe, as it would make these countries the exclusive buyers of French weapons.  Regional bonds: Other European countries, such as Germany, are seeking to strengthen Europe's military capabilities through trans-Atlantic ties. Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, has sai ...
alwaght.net
How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?
Analysis

How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
Eastern Europe.  The storm of verbal clash between American and European leaders that sparked at the Munich Security Conference has not yet subsided and is crumbling the foundations of the trans-Atlantic alliance, especially over the issue of Ukraine, to the extent that on the third anniversar ...
alwaght.net
Yemen Warns Riyadh to Heed Zelensky’s Fate
News

Yemen Warns Riyadh to Heed Zelensky’s Fate

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
Eastern Europe, a Jewish figure like Zelensky? How easily they abandoned him. What guarantee do you have that your wealth, stored in American banks, will remain safe? He further questioned what assurance Saudis have that the US would not turn its back on them and disavow their actions—just as ...
alwaght.net
US-Europe Division over Ukraine Allowing Russian Battleground Progress
Analysis

US-Europe Division over Ukraine Allowing Russian Battleground Progress

Monday 10 March 2025 ،
Eastern European country in the lurch.  The collapse of the American-Ukranian relations after meeting of the leaders of the two countries in the White House last week was obvious and now it is leaving its impacts on Kiev on the battleground.  Russian advances on the battleground  A ...
alwaght.net
Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement
Analysis

Aspects of Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan-Turkmenistan Agreement

Sunday 6 April 2025 ،
East to West and North to South, Central Asia has been the focus of major economic and trade projects of economic powers, including China, Russia, India, and Europe in recent years. In this context, the role of Central Asia in advancing the grand Road and Belt Initiative (RBI) of China project is hi ...
alwaght.net
Lavrov Responds to Trump’s Global Trade War
News

Lavrov Responds to Trump’s Global Trade War

Saturday 12 April 2025 ،
Ukraine — is the only path to a lasting resolution and enduring peace, according to Reuters. 'President Trump was the first, and so far, arguably the only Western leader to repeatedly and firmly declare that drawing Ukraine into NATO was a major mistake,' Lavrov said. 'This is one ...
alwaght.net
Where’s US Foreign Policy Heading under Erratic Trump?
Analysis

Where’s US Foreign Policy Heading under Erratic Trump?

Saturday 19 April 2025 ،
East Asia all bore signs of change of international equation from unipolar to multipolar. But can Washington reshuffle the current order to its own advantage?  Filling the US void Nicholas Bakulin, an expert at Yale Law School and former director of Amnesty International in Asia and the Pacif ...
alwaght.net
What’s Russian Role in Iran-US Nuclear Talks?
Analysis

What’s Russian Role in Iran-US Nuclear Talks?

Sunday 20 April 2025 ،
East Steve Witkoff before the second round visited Moscow, showing that amid Trump's deliberate ignorance of European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal, both the US and Iran have their eyes on the Russian role. Araghchi's Moscow visit agenda  Although since the announcement of Arag ...

Gallery

Photo

Film

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution