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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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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements
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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements

Tuesday 4 August 2026
Kurdistan region remains the biggest obstacle ahead of implementation of this agreement. Those disputes, centered on who holds the authority to export Kurdish crude and how the proceeds get divvied up, have repeatedly choked or halted shipments along the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline.  In 2023, Baghd ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Kurdistan region's Peshmerga paramilitary forces, to armed groups affiliated with political factions and tribes. From this perspective, al-Zaydi government's project is not a simple operation for disarming a number of armed groups, but an effort to redefine the relation of the government wi ...
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Iran’s Ghalibaf in Baghdad: Common Cases on the Table
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Iran’s Ghalibaf in Baghdad: Common Cases on the Table

Friday 21 August 2026 ،
Kurdistan region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani has seriously impacted political atmosphere between Tehran and Erbil. Kurdish officials argue that the drones come from outside Iraq, calling the attack a gross violation of sovereignty of the autonomous region. Iran’s foreign ministry strongly ...
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence

Friday 28 August 2026 ،
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and views a large armed Kurdish force on its southern border as an existential security threat. That concern only intensified after PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan moved to end the group's armed struggle. In February 2025, the jailed Kurdish leader called for the ...
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
Kurdistan is heavily dependent on US support and Kurdish leaders are not sure they can survive alone. Alwaght- Reports suggest that the process of withdrawal of the US forces and Patriot missile systems from Erbil suburbs is making a gap between some media sources and Iraqi Kurdistan region's of ...
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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 ،
Kurdistan region and they are slated to evacuate by September 30. The high-alert status at the Harir Air Base near Erbil has been lifted for the first time in days, with crews now clearing debris from an aerial surveillance balloon used as an early-warning system, according to Al-Ma’louma. Se ...
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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 ،
Kurdistan's Peshmerga forces, and if implemented, the plan would mean that the US forces will move out of Kurdistan region by end September. The issue has drawn concerns about the future of security in the autonomous region. The US has reportedly told Kurdistan leaders it does not intend to ren ...
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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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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.