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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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Hormuz Mission, a Two-sided Blade for South Korea
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Hormuz Mission, a Two-sided Blade for South Korea

Wednesday 9 September 2026
Peninsula case remains a convenient lever for Washington to squeeze Seoul. Seoul knows all too well that any reduction in US military support against the Pyongyang could carry a steep price tag. By playing up the North's threat and highlighting the necessity of the American troop presence, Washi ...
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Amending Iraq’s PMF Law: Change of Structure or Nature?
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Amending Iraq’s PMF Law: Change of Structure or Nature?

Sunday 13 September 2026 ،
The draft law remains a controversy in Iraq as Washington wants the resistance forces disarmed and isolated. Alwaght- While the political rift about the future of the Iraqi resistance groups and the way of their organization is growing, the draft law of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has once ...
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Saudi Arabia Vs. Yemen: End of No-peace, No-war Game
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Saudi Arabia Vs. Yemen: End of No-peace, No-war Game

Monday 14 September 2026 ،
Peninsula are, in effect, two pressure points in the global network for moving energy and goods. Any sustained disruption to these two routes drives up shipping costs, insurance premiums, and transit times, and ultimately energy prices. That is why Yemen is no longer just a civil war or a Saudi-Ans ...
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. Any actor that can get a major sway over the dynamics of the Strait will potentially hold the stronger political leverage in the dymdmics on the two sides of the Red Sea. In recent years, regional and international powers have poured vast investments into ports, mi ...
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Pentagon Acknowledges F-35 Was Struck by Iranian Forces During War
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Pentagon Acknowledges F-35 Was Struck by Iranian Forces During War

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
Pentagon inspector general’s report says an F-35 stealth fighter suffered combat damage after being struck by Iran ALWAGHT- A Pentagon inspector general’s report says an F-35 stealth fighter suffered combat damage after being struck by Iran, marking the first such incident involving the aircra ...
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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 ،
Pentagon's inspector general, in its first mandatory report to Congress on the scope of the war with Iran, has concluded that the massive expenditure of munitions during the operation caused a strategic depletion of stockpiles and laid bare sweeping shortfalls in the US industrial capacity to re ...
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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 ،
League allies' failure to act to stop Israel's atrocities against the people of Gaza. The Saudis, then, have plainly lost the war of narratives on the soft-power front to Yemen, and in that sense the Mecca incident is a golden opportunity to recoup that loss and damage Ansarullah's imag ...
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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 ،
Pentagon's internal prove have said that some of the Department of War had concluded in the early hours of the attack that targeted Minab elementary school was carried out by the US forces. They add that the attack was not a result of a single person decision, but was a product of a chain of dec ...
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
Leyen, in her September 16 annual address, proposed a European security council bringing together the EU, Canada, Norway and Britain, along with an emergency mechanism modeled on NATO's Article 4. The FREYA missile defense project, involving nine European countries plus Ukraine and pitched as a ...
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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 ،
The project and its success is tied to an array of home and foreign factors. Alwaght- The unification of the Peshmerga forces in Iraq's 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 mili ...

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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.