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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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Journalists Play Key Role in Strengthening National Unity
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Journalists Play Key Role in Strengthening National Unity

Saturday 8 August 2026
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed that journalists and media professionals play a vital role in strengthening national unity ALWAGHT- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed that journalists and media professionals play a vital role in strengthening national unity and fosteri ...
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Yemen Targets Saudi Military Site, Signals New Equation
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Yemen Targets Saudi Military Site, Signals New Equation

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
Yemen’s armed forces said they had targeted a Saudi military gathering center in Sah al-Jinn with a large number of missiles and drones ALWAGHT- Yemen’s armed forces said they had targeted a Saudi military gathering center in Sah al-Jinn with a large number of missiles and drones, warning that ...
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Iran’s Army on Full Alert Against Potential Ground Threats
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Iran’s Army on Full Alert Against Potential Ground Threats

Sunday 9 August 2026 ،
Forces warned that any US military ground presence on Iranian soil would be met with a severe response ALWAGHT- The commander of Iran’s Army Ground Forces warned that any US military ground presence on Iranian soil would be met with a severe response, stressing that the force remains fully pre ...
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
Forces of this coalition will meet on Thursday to discuss five key cases, he said. The meeting, however, seems to have been postponed. Abdul Hadi told Al-Maalouma news website that the upcoming meeting’s agenda, as laid out by planners, will center on three core issues: the nature of the curr ...
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Strait of Hormuz Stalemate: Geography Logic Beats Military Power
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Strait of Hormuz Stalemate: Geography Logic Beats Military Power

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
Hormuz crisis has proven that military strength is not always a game-changing factor. Alwaght- Over the past few days, a series of diplomatic and military developments have shown that Strait of Hormuz crisis is not a mere regional dispute, rather, it is a scene determining a balance of power among t ...
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War
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Restructuring Iran’s Military Command: Show of Stability amid War

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
Forces General Staff and Major General Ahmad Vahidi as the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  Al Jazeera, in a report headlined “Iran Cementing Its Chain of Command; Veteran IRGC Commander Tapped for Key Security Post,” reported that the Iranian leader&rsqu ...
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
Forces. So one of the fiercest battles ahead may not be over the principle of a strong state per se, but over the precise definition of where former armed groups fit within the official security architecture. On the other hand, Sunni and Kurdish parties would not just sit this out as spectators. Th ...
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Khatam Headquarters Merged with Armed Forces General Staff in Major Iranian Military Reform
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Khatam Headquarters Merged with Armed Forces General Staff in Major Iranian Military Reform

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
Forces General Staff ALWAGHT- Iran’s Supreme Leader has appointed Major General Ali Abdollahi as chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, underscoring the completion of its merger with the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters in a major restructuring designed to unify strategic planning and o ...
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story

Wednesday 12 August 2026 ،
Washington may find its power to control regional states fading away. Alwaght- Signing the trilateral defense pact by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey is not just making a military alliance, rather, it can signal rise of a new security formation in West Asia that at the end of the road would serio ...
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?

Friday 14 August 2026 ،
Force.  Citing a military analyst, AL Jazeera reported that the strike, if the missile specifications are confirmed, could upend previous estimates of Iran's missile range, which had typically been assessed at around 2,000 kilometers. For Tehran, then, this war has been a massive test: a ...

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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.