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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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HTS Aggression on Lebanon Fuels Worries about Regional Instability
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HTS Aggression on Lebanon Fuels Worries about Regional Instability

Tuesday 18 March 2025
HTS attacks on Lebanon’s border areas play into the hands of Israel that benefits from regional conflicts. Alwaght- The elements of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), who over the past few weeks have pushed Syria to instability with their massacare of religious minorities in costal regions, this time b ...
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HTS Militants from Syria Enter Lebanese Town and Loot Homes
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HTS Militants from Syria Enter Lebanese Town and Loot Homes

Tuesday 18 March 2025 ،
HTS) have entered a Lebanese town, looting homes, according to reports ALWAGHT- Militants affiliated with Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have entered a Lebanese town, looting homes, according to reports, following shelling along Lebanon's border that left several dead and many o ...
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Syria’s HTS Fate Dim amid Turkey Unrest
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Syria’s HTS Fate Dim amid Turkey Unrest

Friday 28 March 2025 ،
HTS). The leaders of HTS led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani who have set their eyes on Turkish support to strengthen pillars of their rule are now severely concerned about the unrest in Turkey. Given the interwoven relations of the HTS and Ankara, we are investigating the impacts of the massive protests ...
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran

Tuesday 1 April 2025 ،
HTS) terrorist group. Certainly, given its relatively long land borders with this country, Iraq is exposed to a potential similar fate and to becoming a safe haven for terrorists. Even now, concerns about the spread of insecurity and terrorism in Syria and the revival of sleeper cells of ISIS terror ...
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UK Warns Israel Against Syria Strikes Over Regional Stability
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UK Warns Israel Against Syria Strikes Over Regional Stability

Saturday 5 April 2025 ،
HTS), Israel has increased its attacks on former Syrian military assets. Critics have accused Israel of exploiting the turmoil for territorial gains and violating the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria.
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Stab in the Back: Allies Turning Syria into Graveyard of Erdogan’s Dreams
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Stab in the Back: Allies Turning Syria into Graveyard of Erdogan’s Dreams

Monday 7 April 2025 ،
HTS) with combat drones, radars, electronic warfare systems and air defense systems, and in addition, establishing Turkish military bases on Syrian soil, where strike aircraft could be stationed. As part of these efforts, Turkey has recently dispatched its military equipment and experts to several ...
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What’s behind Al-Jolani’s UAE Visit?
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What’s behind Al-Jolani’s UAE Visit?

Tuesday 15 April 2025 ،
HTS), the group has not yet gained international legitimacy and even recurrent rights violations and deadly crackdowns of opponents have deepened the distrust in the al-Jolani’s grandiose promises for post-Assad era.  Despite Arab support for the new Syrian regime, most Arab countries ha ...
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Iraqi PM’s Meeting with Syria’s Al-Jolani: Secret Diplomacy or Strategic Mistake?
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Iraqi PM’s Meeting with Syria’s Al-Jolani: Secret Diplomacy or Strategic Mistake?

Tuesday 22 April 2025 ،
HTS) in dealing with religious minorities and even limiting the weapons of the arbitrary Takfiri groups and confronting ISIS, to the extent that even Western countries opposed to the former government led by Bashar al-Assad still refuse to officially recognize the new regime. The legal arguments ar ...
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Forbidden Relation? Iraqis Angry as Govt. Invites Syria’s Al-Sharaa
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Forbidden Relation? Iraqis Angry as Govt. Invites Syria’s Al-Sharaa

Sunday 27 April 2025 ،
HTS fighting in Iraq and Syria.  Also, amid invitation sent to al-Sharaa for Baghdad summit, Sabrin News of Iraq published documents of charges against the interim Syrian government. One of the documents released is a paper identifying al-Sharaa, signed as Amjad Mudhafar Hussein al-Nuaimi in T ...
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New Syria and the Project to Remove Palestinian Resistance Factions from Damascus
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New Syria and the Project to Remove Palestinian Resistance Factions from Damascus

Tuesday 29 April 2025 ،
HTS) has even implicitly approved to meet new American demands, such as recognizing the US right to target specific individuals on Syrian soil, which means freedom of action for the US to conduct air operations in Syria. Other US conditions, media outlets reported, include the complete elimination ...

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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