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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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Chilling Accounts from Israeli Prisons: From Torture to Human Organ Theft
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Chilling Accounts from Israeli Prisons: From Torture to Human Organ Theft

Saturday 18 October 2025
of around 1,700 Palestinian prisoners undisclosed a human disaster that has taken place at the Israeli prisons. This report, citing field evidence, stories of the survivors, and forensic documents, gives a horrific picture of systematic torture, trans-judicial executions, and organized violation of ...
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Revolving Door Policy: The PA as a Gatekeeper for Israeli Military in West Bank
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Revolving Door Policy: The PA as a Gatekeeper for Israeli Military in West Bank

Tuesday 21 October 2025 ،
of the Palestinian prisoners under the swap deal between Israel and Hamas has led to celebrations and rejoicing across West Bank and Gaza Strip and the Palestinians called it the day of victory, reports suggest that in recent days various parts of West Bank have been scenes to fresh wave of raids by ...
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With Govt. Approach Proving a Failure, Hezbollah’s about to Make a Military Resurgence
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With Govt. Approach Proving a Failure, Hezbollah’s about to Make a Military Resurgence

Saturday 25 October 2025 ،
of the guns has prevailed only on the paper. The Israeli fighter jets still fly rampant in the Lebanese sky, leaving the people in the border areas every night facing a new nightmare. According to the Lebanese ministry of health, in the recent Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, fou ...
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Gaza Technocratic Committee, a Big Challenge of Ceasefire’s Second Stage
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Gaza Technocratic Committee, a Big Challenge of Ceasefire’s Second Stage

Saturday 1 November 2025 ،
of new Gaza administration committee. Alwaght- Three weeks after ceasefire started in Gaza, the differences over the second stage of the deal remain unfolding. One of the main sticking points between Hamas resistance movement and the Israeli occupation is about the political and security administra ...
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What Does High Iraq Election Turnout Mean?
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What Does High Iraq Election Turnout Mean?

Wednesday 12 November 2025 ،
of preparations and heated campaigning of the candidates, the Iraqi parliamentary elections were finally held in a secure and peaceful climate. And now the breathes are held in expectation of the results that will determine the next government.  Meanwhile, one of the issues that has grabbed th ...
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US Pursuing Own Agenda, not a Deal, behind Iran Negotiations: Expert
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US Pursuing Own Agenda, not a Deal, behind Iran Negotiations: Expert

Saturday 7 February 2026 ،
of the negotiations or the possible proposals. The talks finished as the US has unprecedentedly amassed its military assets, mainly naval ships, in the region amid threats for military action against Iran and amid warnings by experts that failure of the talks could bring massive instability to the r ...
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Iran War Sounding NATO Death Knell
Analysis

Iran War Sounding NATO Death Knell

Thursday 19 March 2026 ،
of months ago, Trump set the news and social media ablaze by his plan to annex Greenland to the US territory. Though since the beginning it looked that his words were a media game, when Trump said he was ready to deploy forces to the Danish territory, many raised a question despite being highly unli ...
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Araghchi’s Islamabad Re-Visit: Will Talks with the US Be Resumed?
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Araghchi’s Islamabad Re-Visit: Will Talks with the US Be Resumed?

Sunday 26 April 2026 ،
of talks between the US and Iran for a deal to end the war, Iran's Foreign Ministry Minister Abbas Araghchi visited Islamabad. He talked to senior Pakistani officials and then left the capital for Muscat as the second stop of his tour. He talked to his Pakistani counterpart and the army chief. A ...
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Iran Must Keep the Blade of Hormuz Strait on Trump’s Head
Analysis

Iran Must Keep the Blade of Hormuz Strait on Trump’s Head

Thursday 28 May 2026 ،
of Hormuz can work as a new deterrence factor for Tehran in the face of American excesses. Alwaght- Years of successive, intensive, and turbulent negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 finally led to the signing of the 2015 nuclear deal under the Obama administration. Although the agreement denied I ...
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?
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Is Oman Facing a Repeat of the 2017 Qatar Crisis?

Monday 1 June 2026 ،
of the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf will align with the US policies regarding the Strait of Hormuz and join the pressures against Tehran, the US President Donald Trump now faces a different reality, one in which some regional players are uninterested to fully comply with the American demands. ...

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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.