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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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Ayatollah Khamenei Affirms Kurds as Part of Our Community
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Ayatollah Khamenei Affirms Kurds as Part of Our Community

Saturday 11 May 2024
Iraqi Kurdistan Region, held talks with Ayatollah Khamenei. The Khat-e-Hezbollah weekly published further insights into the meeting, stating that Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized the strong connection between the Iranian people and the Kurds. We regard our relationship with the Kurdish community, whet ...
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Al-Sadr’s Comeback with New Political Look: Signs and Reasons
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Al-Sadr’s Comeback with New Political Look: Signs and Reasons

Monday 13 May 2024 ،
Iraqi political scene over the past years has undergone many highs and lows and is no stranger to surprises that can upset all equations all at once. This makes the Iraqi politicians always have a look outside the official power game, and certainly one of the most prominent figures whose movements a ...
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KDP Suffers Big Blow as Patriotic Union Secures Kirkuk Governor Post
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KDP Suffers Big Blow as Patriotic Union Secures Kirkuk Governor Post

Wednesday 21 August 2024 ،
Iraqi Kurdistan. Alwaght- Iraq's Kirkuk province, which over the past two decades has been one of the politically challenging regions of Iraq and Kurdish partisan clashes have led to constant instability in this oil-rich province, these days has molted and good news are emanating from it for Ira ...
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Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?
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Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?

Tuesday 5 November 2024 ،
Iraqi territory. The government claims that these attacks have practically grounded PKK and made it lose its operational forces, but the elements of the PKK every now and then carry out surprise operations against the military, causing casualties.  In the meantime, Alwaght has talked to former ...
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Why’s Deir Ez-Ezor Becoming Hot Spot for Syria Crisis Actors
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Why’s Deir Ez-Ezor Becoming Hot Spot for Syria Crisis Actors

Sunday 10 November 2024 ،
Iraqi border, and with an area of ​​about 33,000 square kilometers, it has a population of more than 1 million. Deir Ez-Ezor connects the two neighbors of Syria and Jordan and borders the five provinces of Homs, Hama, Raqqa, Hasakah, and Rif Dimashq. Additionally, the province hosts one of the grou ...
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Iraq SCF’s Hat- trick in Political Game
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Iraq SCF’s Hat- trick in Political Game

Wednesday 4 December 2024 ،
Iraqi members of parliament these days are taking steps towards an important law that not only can make the current period a golden one for settling the internal differences and localizing the structure of customary laws in Iraq after 2003, but also highly influence the next year elections. The age ...
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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project
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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project

Thursday 19 December 2024 ،
Iraqi borders, but it may have serious challenges ahead. Alwaght- The massive Israeli aggression on Gaza and Lebanon over the past year and recently on Syria shows that the Israeli leaders have evil plans for West Asia region and find the chaos in Syria the best opportunity to realize a long-chased ...
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria

Sunday 22 December 2024 ،
Iraqi officials have also warned that ISIS is seeking to reorganize with the equipment it has obtained from the Syrian army. Since this takfiri organization does not believe in any rule or government other than its alleged caliphate, if it gains power, it can sink the region into a serious crisis. ...
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?

Wednesday 15 January 2025 ،
Iraqi and Syrian soil, it is estimated that there are now 2,000 US troops in Syria, a number that is much higher than the 900 troops it announced in December. In October 2019, when the US military evacuated its military base in Kobani region, it announced that it had bombed the remaining facilities ...
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges

Tuesday 21 January 2025 ،
Iraqi government is most concerned about the return of instability to Syria, the leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan region in Erbil have pursued parallel diplomacy independent of Baghdad in this regard, and in recent weeks, there have been interactions and negotiations between them and the Syrian Kurds that ...

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Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures

Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures