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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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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?

Tuesday 22 September 2026
Kurdistan region these days presents itself as one of the salient security developments of the autonomous Kurdish region. O the surface, it may look like a military and organizational project to create a unified structure of the Peshmergas, but in its deeper layers, it is interwoven to one of the re ...
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
Kurds to outsource responsibility to the Iraqi government, something sending Kurdish officials highly worried. Alwaght- Reports suggest the US President Donald Trump is mulling ending the security and military support to Iraqi Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces, and if implemented, the plan would mean ...
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Iran Signals Readiness to Launch Preemptive Strikes If Faced with Threats
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Iran Signals Readiness to Launch Preemptive Strikes If Faced with Threats

Wednesday 30 September 2026 ،
Kurdistan region as an example, arguing that targeting potential threats before they could launch attacks constituted an application of the new strategy.
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert

Friday 2 October 2026 ،
Kurdistan Region or other areas. Even Turkish forces, which had bases in Nineveh Province and other areas, were forced to withdraw their forces and abandon some of their bases. Given the withdrawal of American forces, it appears that the Iraqi army and the country's Resistance forces can use th ...
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?
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Where have American Forces and Military Equipment Gone after Iraq Withdrawal?

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Kurdistan region, putting and end to the military mission in Kurdistan. Now the question is: Where did these forces go and is there any military capacity of the US left in Iraq? Where were the last forces stationed? A Washington Post report says that in the weeks that preceded the exit, around 1,5 ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
Kurdistan region would be formed for the Kurds, a central region for the Sunnis, and a southern region for the Shias. Worries about Iraq partition Mr Afghahi went on to say that Iraq is being partitioned under the radar, noting that Kurdistan Region is a given, and a Sunni middle region is also be ...
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios
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Post-Withdrawal US Security Strategy in Iraq: Five Scenarios

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
Kurdish Regional Government forces, Washington can still keep a read on security developments in Iraq, in Syria, and on the activity of resistance groups. In this connection, Mohammed Saleh, an Iraq expert and researcher at the American Foreign Policy Institute, says it remains unclear exactly what ...
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
Kurdish friends shows that Washington may continue to use its instrument of destabilizing and this seriously runs counter to the Iraqi sovereignty. He said that threat posed by ISIS terrorist organization is yet to fully end and the sleeper cells are remaining and their terrorist actions in Iraq ar ...
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
Kurds, Sunnis, the central government, and regional players, each forms part of the power equation. Alwaght: How do you think the US exit will influence the process of disarming the resistance groups? Can it accelerate it or on the contrary strengthen the resistance groups? Mousavi: This issue is ...
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Completion of Iraq Cabinet and Redrawing Balance of Power
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Completion of Iraq Cabinet and Redrawing Balance of Power

Tuesday 20 October 2026 ،
Kurdistan Democratic Party was named minister of construction, housing and municipalities. Mohammad Sahib al-Darraji, of the Services Coalition, was put in charge of the newly established Ministry of Digital Economy, Governance, Science and Technology. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities was han ...

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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.