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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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Iraq Govt. Formation Process Hostage to Al-Sadr’s Rancor against Ex-PM Al-Maliki
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Iraq Govt. Formation Process Hostage to Al-Sadr’s Rancor against Ex-PM Al-Maliki

Monday 31 January 2022
Fatah coalition, announced on Friday that the SCF has refused fo join a coalition government with al-Sadr and Sunnis without al-Maliki and informed al-Sadr of the decision. Now more than any other time in the past, Sadr-Maliki differences are on the Iraqi politics surface and this raises questions a ...
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Hamas Condemns UAE for Israeli President Visit to Abu Dhabi despite Regime’s Crimes against Palestinians
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Hamas Condemns UAE for Israeli President Visit to Abu Dhabi despite Regime’s Crimes against Palestinians

Monday 31 January 2022 ،
Fatah movement’s Central Committee has suggested that the UAE must be expelled from the Arab League due to normalization with Israel.  
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Iraqi Shiites’ "National Stability" Coalition: Goals, Nature
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Iraqi Shiites’ "National Stability" Coalition: Goals, Nature

Monday 21 February 2022 ،
Fatah parliamentary alliance led by Hadi al-Amiri, said the SCF plans to form National Stability coalition, represented by 88 parliamentarians.  First step of faction making  The move by Shiite political parties to transform their platform of cooperation from a coordination mechanism add ...
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Six Scenarios Iraqi Politics Facing after Al-Sadr’s Deadline
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Six Scenarios Iraqi Politics Facing after Al-Sadr’s Deadline

Thursday 7 April 2022 ،
Fatah bloc, as a member of SCF, at a meeting on March 31 explicitly welcomed the proposal.  It is impossible that a bloc monopolizes all the parliamentary and administrative posts and expect the opposition to perform its duty of supervising the government work, al-Amiri told the meeting.  ...
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Ex-Iraqi Parliament Speaker Warns of Plan to Grant 500,000 Jews Iraqi Citizenship
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Ex-Iraqi Parliament Speaker Warns of Plan to Grant 500,000 Jews Iraqi Citizenship

Monday 11 April 2022 ،
Fatah (Conquest) Alliance won 15 seats, down from 48 seats in the 2018 vote. Meanwhile, influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon coalition won more than 70 seats. The elections were originally planned to be held in 2022, but the date was brought forward in response to a mass protest move ...
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Erdogan-Barzani’s Joint Plot against National Iraqi Interests
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Erdogan-Barzani’s Joint Plot against National Iraqi Interests

Thursday 21 April 2022 ،
Fatah parliamentary coalition. The Kurdish region's leaders, however, have so far declined to make official statements in condemnation, feeding the speculation that fresh attacks were coordinated between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Preside ...
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Will Independents Join Sadr-led Coalition?
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Will Independents Join Sadr-led Coalition?

Monday 9 May 2022 ،
Fatah bloc, said that over 10 members of al-Sadr coalition defected and joined the SCF.  But while chances of al-Sadr's new initiative making a change are slim, the initiatives by the rival SCF have proven more proportionate to the Iraqi political realities and also more implementable. In ...
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Senior Iraqi Commander Warns of Attempts to Trigger Political Unrest in Country
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Senior Iraqi Commander Warns of Attempts to Trigger Political Unrest in Country

Sunday 22 May 2022 ،
Fatah (Conquest) Alliance reportedly won 17 seats in the October 10 elections after taking 48 seats in the 2018 vote. A count based on results from several provinces plus Baghdad, verified by local government officials, showed that Sadr’s Sairoon coalition had won 73 seats, giving him conside ...
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MPs Loyal to Iraq’s Sadr Resign to Break Political Deadlock
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MPs Loyal to Iraq’s Sadr Resign to Break Political Deadlock

Saturday 11 June 2022 ،
Fatah (Conquest) Alliance – the political arm of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) resistance coalition – managed to secure 17 seats, compared to the 48 it held in the outgoing parliament. Former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance won 33 seats, while al- ...
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Senior Iraqi Politician Calls for New Parliamentary Elections
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Senior Iraqi Politician Calls for New Parliamentary Elections

Saturday 25 June 2022 ،
Fatah (Conquest) Alliance – the political arm of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) – won 17 seats, down from 48 it had won in the previous election. Despite Sadr’s impressive show in the election, Iraqi law requires a super-majority, namely two-thirds of the vote, to ...

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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.