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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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What Are the Challenges a Possible Trump War on Venezuela Would Face?
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What Are the Challenges a Possible Trump War on Venezuela Would Face?

Sunday 26 October 2025
House describes the mission as against drugs trafficking, analysts argue that this volume of military hardware are meant for operations aimed at ousting the Venezuelan government.  Elliott Abrams, who served as the US special envoy for Venezuela during Trump's first term, told The Atlantic ...
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Arab League Chief Reveals Secret US Deal Protecting Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal
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Arab League Chief Reveals Secret US Deal Protecting Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal

Monday 27 October 2025 ،
Aboul Gheit accused Washington of deceiving Arab nations on nuclear disarmament, disclosing a secret US-Israeli agreement ALWAGHT- Aboul Gheit accused Washington of deceiving Arab nations on nuclear disarmament, disclosing a secret US-Israeli agreement that protects Tel Aviv’s unacknowledged n ...
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Trump’s Asia Tour: A Push to Contain China through ASEAN
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Trump’s Asia Tour: A Push to Contain China through ASEAN

Monday 27 October 2025 ،
House's economic calculations as the bloc has become one of the major actors in world trade.  In a speech at the ASEAN summit, Donald Trump announced that the US will sign bilateral agreements on industrial and technological development with member countries, including Vietnam and Malaysia ...
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Nuclear Tests Resumption: Trump’s Struggle to Cover Up US Decline
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Nuclear Tests Resumption: Trump’s Struggle to Cover Up US Decline

Saturday 1 November 2025 ،
House to embark on a more aggressive foreign policy. At first glance, these two decisions appear to be a show of force. But a closer look reveals they are merely a grandstanding, designed to mask the structural weaknesses of a superpower whose real-world record, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Ukraine ...
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Baghdad, the Hot Spot of Iraq’s Upcoming Elections
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Baghdad, the Hot Spot of Iraq’s Upcoming Elections

Monday 3 November 2025 ،
The capital is of great importance in various aspects and winning it means securing an upper hand nationally. Alwaght- With just a week left until Iraq’s parliamentary elections on November 10, all eyes are on Baghdad, where political factions are locked in an intense showdown. The capital has ...
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Government Closure Reaches New Record with Congress Locked in Political Standoff
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Government Closure Reaches New Record with Congress Locked in Political Standoff

Wednesday 5 November 2025 ،
House largely inactive since September, the Senate has been forced to take the lead on negotiations. The prolonged shutdown is already straining the country. Nearly 1.4 million federal employees are either furloughed or working without pay, food banks are seeing growing demand, and funding for food ...
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Mamadani Wins: A Pro-Palestinian Mayor Now Leads Heart of US Capitalism
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Mamadani Wins: A Pro-Palestinian Mayor Now Leads Heart of US Capitalism

Thursday 6 November 2025 ،
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat himself, hesitated to endorse his fellow New Yorker, only throwing his support behind the candidate a single day before early voting began. Neither of New York's Democratic senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, backed ...
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UNESCO Affirms the Cyrus Cylinder’s Status as A Universal Icon of Human Rights
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UNESCO Affirms the Cyrus Cylinder’s Status as A Universal Icon of Human Rights

Saturday 8 November 2025 ،
Housed in the British Museum, the 6th-century BCE clay tablet chronicles Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon and his policies of religious tolerance and restoration of sanctuaries. Scholars have long regarded it as a pioneering statement on human dignity and fair governance. Iranian Ministe ...
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What’s Driving US Military Base Project in Damascus?
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What’s Driving US Military Base Project in Damascus?

Sunday 9 November 2025 ،
House on Monday. This visit, the first official trip by a Syrian head of state to the US since the start of the civil war, is widely reported to focus on lifting economic sanctions and plans for reconstruction of war-ravaged Syria. Experts now speculate that the military base agreement is also a cen ...
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Hopes and Fears as Syria’s Al-Jolani Visits US
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Hopes and Fears as Syria’s Al-Jolani Visits US

Sunday 9 November 2025 ،
House is set to roll out a red carpet to Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (officially Ahmad al-Sharaa) who just months ago was an internationally wanted terrorist. He, as the Syrian interim president, is to meet the US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday.  But while things have gone well for ...

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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.