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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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Bin Salman’s US Visit the Launching Pad for Future US-Saudi Ties
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Bin Salman’s US Visit the Launching Pad for Future US-Saudi Ties

Monday 17 November 2025
March 2018. The last time he flew to the US to meet the US President Donald Trump the situation was different for him and his country. He at the time was just appointed crown prince, ousting his uncle Mohammed bin Nayef, while he was in the middle of a 15-month purging campaign targeting business pe ...
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Will Hariri Come Back to Lebanon’s Politics?
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Will Hariri Come Back to Lebanon’s Politics?

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
March 14 Alliance alongside Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, and Samir Geagea, head of the radical Lebanese Forces party. In the 2005 elections, Hariri secured a seat in parliament representing Beirut's first district, the same seat once held by his father, and his bloc ...
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Latest Information on US Military Formation amid Threats of War with Iran
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Latest Information on US Military Formation amid Threats of War with Iran

Tuesday 24 February 2026 ،
March 2025 report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency added that Iran maintains the largest stockpile of missiles and drone systems in the region. The same report warns that Tehran also operates long-range offensive systems, including cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles, capable of threatenin ...
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US Navy Crumbling Under Iran War; Advanced Warship Pulls Back
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US Navy Crumbling Under Iran War; Advanced Warship Pulls Back

Saturday 2 May 2026 ،
March 2026 that injured several sailors and displaced over 600 crew members, while chronic sanitation failures produced roughly one sewage issue per day for months. Key systems, including its advanced aircraft launch technology and weapons elevators, remain unreliable, and the carrier will now enter ...
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Israel Invades Lebanon: While Hezbollah Fighting, Lebanon’s Govt. Waiting Mirage of Talks
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Israel Invades Lebanon: While Hezbollah Fighting, Lebanon’s Govt. Waiting Mirage of Talks

Monday 1 June 2026 ،
145 countries in the 2026 Global Firepower index and lacks any real air defense system. Its air force has become a daily joke. After the last Hezbollah-Israel war ended in 2024, the Lebanese army was tasked with dismantling Hezbollah’s arsenal. By January, the army announced it had completed ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
March 2015, it boasted of a nine-nation Arab and Islamic coalition that would upend the battlefield and defeat Ansarullah. Saudi media at the time billed the alliance as a decisive force that would end Ansarullah's rule for good. But subsequent events proved that battlefield realities bore littl ...
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Why Hasn’t Oil Friendship with China Worked for Saudis?
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Why Hasn’t Oil Friendship with China Worked for Saudis?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
March to $16–$20, making Saudi oil prohibitively more expensive for Asian refiners than rival grades. The outcome of this situation is the considerable shift in the combination of Chinese oil imports. According to Energy Intelligence later in June, the Russian oil exports to China have reache ...
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Six Months of Iran War: The Costs for the US
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Six Months of Iran War: The Costs for the US

Saturday 29 August 2026 ،
March 2, that number plummeted to about five vessels a day. A temporary truce in June briefly lifted traffic to roughly 20 ships per day, but when the US reinstated its naval blockade on July 14, daily transits cratered again to around five. Over the six months of war, the average daily traffic thr ...
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Unity of Front Must Become a Law in Iran, Tehran Standing by Hezbollah: Political Expert
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Unity of Front Must Become a Law in Iran, Tehran Standing by Hezbollah: Political Expert

Thursday 17 September 2026 ،
March 22, a card the Israeli regime never imagined Hezbollah could obtain. Hezbollah still has many tactics up its sleeve against the Israeli occupation, and the Europeans have come to recognize this capability. The Israeli regime is known for its lightning strikes and claims it paralyzes the enemy ...
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How Have Drones Transformed Yemen War?
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How Have Drones Transformed Yemen War?

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
March 2015, Ansarallah relied mainly on light weapons. Now, leaning on indigenous capabilities, it has advanced in missile and drone production and widened the scope of its military reach. Fiber-optic drones are relatively low-cost, tactical weapons typically deployed near front lines and used to t ...

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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.