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Ansarullah
A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite
represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
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
A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban
Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
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 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
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
Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda
A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
Saturday 8 August 2026
Mecca in a location that was picked targeted and symbolic, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif signed Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
In a joint statement issued after the three countries signed the agreement, they con ...
Analysis
Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?
Saturday 8 August 2026
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Mecca comes as the security crises and war in West Asia have eroded the regional countries' trust in the US-formulated security structures and now many regional powers are moving to establish more independent mechanisms of their own to protect security.
In fact, Ankara, Islamabad, and Riyadh ha ...
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Iran FM Spox: Israel Is Region’s ‘Greatest Security Threat’
Monday 10 August 2026
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Mecca Joint Defense Agreement among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, he described it as evidence of a changing regional outlook and growing recognition that security cannot be imported.
Baghaei said Israeli attacks on Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, along with US support for Israel, have rein ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
Tuesday 11 August 2026
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Mecca agreement. How do you see this defense pact and its function?
Zarean: First, we should note that the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait has been closed to Saudi ships because Saudi Arabia has imposed a cruel blockade on Yemen for the past 10 years across maritime, aerial, and land domains. In response to t ...
Analysis
Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story
Wednesday 12 August 2026
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Mecca, the pact rests on the principle of collective defense, meaning that an attack on one is an attack on all. Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler said that the structure of this pact technically resembles the article 5 of NATO: An attack on one member will be considered am attack on the whole bl ...
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Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?
Saturday 22 August 2026
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Mecca Pact and shift in regional equations
The strike on Abu al-Duhur cannot be understood in isolation from the wider tectonic shifts across West Asia. In recent months, Turkey has worked to expand its security cooperation with regional states, and the signing of a defense pact with Saudi Arabia a ...
Analysis
Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel
Tuesday 25 August 2026
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Mecca Pact last month. Earlier this month, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan formalized a joint defense agreement that Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan described as technically comparable to NATO's collective defense principle, though all parties have officially stressed that the pact is not direct ...
Analysis
Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
Monday 31 August 2026
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Mecca Pact, an agreement stipulating that an attack on any one member will be treated as an attack on all.
That move needs to be seen alongside China's deepening ties with Arab states.
In fact, Iran War has driven home a new reality for the Persian Gulf Arab states and it is that reliance on a ...
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Iran Ready to Implement Islamabad MoU if US Follows Suit
Monday 31 August 2026
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Mecca Agreement, arguing that unity among Muslim countries could deter Israeli attacks and allow regional disputes to be resolved through dialogue without foreign intervention. He called for broader cooperation among Islamic countries in defense, politics, economics, and culture.
Pakistani Prime Mi ...
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
Friday 4 September 2026
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Mecca Pact in mid-August, concerns in Tel Aviv over Ankara's rising clout in West Asia have intensified. The pact, which emphasizes mutual defense and strengthened military cooperation, is viewed in Israeli circles as potentially bolstering Turkey's standing in the region's security equa ...
