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Ansarullah
A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite
represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
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
A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban
Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
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 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
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
Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda
A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Blackmailing Baghdad: What Happened in Turkish FM’s Iraq Visit?
Monday 3 November 2025
Erbil officials, present another serious obstacle to advancing the project. The Kurdistan government worries that the Development Road passing through Nineveh would reduce the economic benefits of transit routes passing through Erbil. The Kurds also fear the project's implementation would dimini ...
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What Does High Iraq Election Turnout Mean?
Wednesday 12 November 2025
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Erbil province noted that in the 2025 cycle, streets and city squares were largely emptied of banners and posters, as social media platforms took their place.
Further underscoring this shift, a Shafaq News report titled Iraq's Digital Arena: Social Media Shapes the 2025 Elections highlighted th ...
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Disarming Iraq’s Resistance: A US Pipe Dream
Monday 22 December 2025
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Erbil, send a clear signal of US efforts to engineer instability in Iraq.
In addition, reports have emerged of a secret agreement between Erbil and Turkey to station Turkish forces in northern parts of the region, a move that openly contradicts Iraq’s constitution, as only the federal governm ...
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Inter-Kurdish Stalemate Complicates Filling Iraq President Post
Tuesday 6 January 2026
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Erbil and Sulaymaniyah.
The KDP, led by Masoud Barzani and attended by his deputies Nechirvan Barzani and Masrour Barzani, convened in Erbil to discuss the formation of the federal government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), and the president post.
The party is reportedly weighing figures ...
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What’s behind US Military Relocation from Ain Al-Assad to Al-Harir?
Tuesday 20 January 2026
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Erbil, Kurdistan Region, all other US military facilities have been handed over to the Iraqi army. The first phase of the gradual, two-stage troop withdrawal, initially slated to conclude in September 2025, was completed last December. The second phase, extending to September 2026, anticipates the c ...
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Al-Maliki’s Comeback to Iraq’s PM Post
Sunday 25 January 2026
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Erbil, and joined the Dawa Islamic Party in 1968, closely associated with Abdul-Sahib Dakhil al-Najafi, one of the party's founders, who was executed in 1969 after being thrown into a vat of acid.
Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shiite opposition figure during Saddam Hussein's reg ...
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Syria’s North Undergoes New Developments as US Stabs Kurds in the Back
Monday 26 January 2026
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Erbil province in the Kurdistan Region on an undisclosed mission.
These developments indicate that the Kurds can no longer rely on direct support from Washington and are instead being forced to recalibrate their position in line with the region’s new political and security realities. In the a ...
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Dismissal of Special Envoy Sawaya Showcase of Trump’s Failure Story in Iraq
Monday 2 February 2026
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Erbil to talk to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) leaders, is expected to fill the position.
Two Iraqi officials said that Sawaya was expected to visit Iraq Friday and meet senior officials in Baghdad, but his visit was canceled all of a sudden. Upon his appointment, political observers had ...
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Iraqi Resistance’s "Missile City" a Message of Resolve to the US
Tuesday 3 February 2026
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Erbil, to this group.
PMF's missile capabilities
The missile city is a part of broader arsenal the Iraqi resistance groups have gradually built in over a decade.
Though there is no official and precise information available about the range, type, and precision of the missiles, field dev ...
Analysis
Iraq’s Govt. Formation in Deadlock as Kurds Wrestle over Post of President
Saturday 7 February 2026
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Erbil of SCF delegation led by the caretaker Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani has not only done nothing, but also disclosed the inter-Kurdish structural and erosional disputes.
According the mechanism established since 2005, the Iraqi government formation process has a chain nature. First, ele ...
