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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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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift

Sunday 6 September 2026
Iraq, the US forces are scheduled to withdraw from the country by September's end. In recent days, reports and comments by Iraqi officials suggested an accelerated process of exit of the American military. In this connection, security sources of Iraq said that the US continues to exit from Hari ...
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Netanyahu Escapes Foward in Lebanon, Time and Equations in Favor of Axis of Resistance: Expert
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Netanyahu Escapes Foward in Lebanon, Time and Equations in Favor of Axis of Resistance: Expert

Monday 7 September 2026 ،
Iraq, and developments on each of these fronts can also impact the others. From the perspective of the Axis of Resistance, the US and the Israeli regime are not viewed as two separate players in regional equations, and for this reason, the Axis of Resistance also follows regional developments as an ...
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Iran War Bill for the US:$33.4 Billion Just Until Ceasefire
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Iran War Bill for the US:$33.4 Billion Just Until Ceasefire

Friday 18 September 2026 ،
Iraq, Oman, and Jordan, with reconstruction costs not yet factored into the $33.4 billion figure. $22.3 billion for munitions The report's most telling figure is that $22.3 billion munitions tab, a number that shows the war with Iran was not merely a costly operation for the US military machin ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
Iraq and from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea coast, advancing the battle against the United States and Israeli regime effectively on both the military-security and economic warfare fronts. Under such conditions, an attack on Mecca, Islam's holiest city, ought to serve the party that has failed ...
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UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US
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UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen. In Iraq, Human Rights Watch examined cases of civilian casualties in airstrikes and ground operations in its reports on the 2003 war and warned about the use of certain banned munitions in urban areas. The group also called for reviews of cases where laws of war ...
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Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Pays Tribute to Nasrallah, Reiterates Iran’s Commitment
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Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei Pays Tribute to Nasrallah, Reiterates Iran’s Commitment

Tuesday 29 September 2026 ،
Iraq as a period of national unity and resistance against foreign influence. He linked the conflict to earlier episodes of Western involvement in Iran, including the nationalization of the oil industry and the US-backed 1953 coup. Ayatollah Khamenei said the war, which he described as imposed on Ir ...
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat
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Exit from Iraq: US Superpower Image Shattered with a Strategic Defeat

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
Iraqi soil on September 30, the case closes on more than two decades of military occupation. But the question of what this war truly achieved still echoes through US political and military establishment. Launched on claims of destroying weapons of mass destruction, countering security threats and re ...
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Sheikh Qassem: South Lebanon Liberation Within Reach as IOF Faces Forced Withdrawal
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Sheikh Qassem: South Lebanon Liberation Within Reach as IOF Faces Forced Withdrawal

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
Iraq’s people, leadership, religious authority, and Popular Mobilization Forces for what he described as forcing the US out of Iraq. On Lebanon’s internal affairs, he said Hezbollah was prepared to address domestic issues according to the Constitution and laws, without US interference. ...
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Iran Says Washington Must Clarify Response to Seven Conditions for Ending War
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Iran Says Washington Must Clarify Response to Seven Conditions for Ending War

Sunday 11 October 2026 ،
Iraq over the preceding two months and asked Tehran to present its own terms. Rezaei stressed that Iran would not agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or resume negotiations unless its seven conditions were met and outstanding ambiguities resolved. Rezaei maintained that Iran would continue its res ...
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
Iraq came not under an agreement with Baghdad but out of fear of Iran’s military power and an admission of defeat in its strategy of military presence in the region as a result of the 40-day war. Critics say the tightening of full access to information is a calculated political strategy to co ...

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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.