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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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A Review of Newly Published US National Security Document
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A Review of Newly Published US National Security Document

Monday 29 December 2025
attacks by the US and the Israeli regime on Iranian nuclear facilities have eliminated Tehran’s threats, the fact remains that key West Asian issues, sea lanes, terrorism, energy flow management, and the security of the Israeli regime, are intrinsically linked to Iran and the Axis of Resistanc ...
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How Yemen Turned the Red Sea into a Global Maritime Wildcard
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How Yemen Turned the Red Sea into a Global Maritime Wildcard

Monday 29 December 2025 ،
attacks on commercial and military vessels shattered long-held assumptions about maritime dominance and demonstrated that chokepoint disruption no longer requires conventional naval supremacy. At the center was the Bab al-Mandab Strait, through which a significant share of global oil and container ...
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Israel Conceals True Casualty Figures from Conflict with Iran
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Israel Conceals True Casualty Figures from Conflict with Iran

Tuesday 30 December 2025 ،
attack during nuclear negotiations with the US, resulting in over 1,000 Iranian casualties, including civilians and key figures. Iran retaliated by striking strategic sites in Israel and the US-controlled Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, ultimately forcing a halt to the aggression by June 24 through succ ...
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Tehran Vows Strong Retaliation in Response to Trump’s Threat of Aggression
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Tehran Vows Strong Retaliation in Response to Trump’s Threat of Aggression

Tuesday 30 December 2025 ،
attack could be even more powerful than previous strikes. Trump’s remarks marked the first explicit US threat against Iran’s conventional missile program, which Tehran maintains is a core element of its national defense. The June US-Israeli strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites were ju ...
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Iran Condemns Trump’s “Grave and Explicit” Military Threats, Urges UN Action
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Iran Condemns Trump’s “Grave and Explicit” Military Threats, Urges UN Action

Wednesday 31 December 2025 ،
attack if Iran continued its ballistic missile or nuclear activities. In response, Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani sent a letter to the UN secretary-general and Security Council president, describing Trump’s remarks as “grave and explicit” threats of force and a clea ...
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Iran’s Defense Chief: Missile Power Immune to Bombs, Talks, and Assassinations
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Iran’s Defense Chief: Missile Power Immune to Bombs, Talks, and Assassinations

Saturday 3 January 2026 ،
attacks on its nuclear facilities would undermine international law and the NPT.
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US Invasion of Venezuela: Test of Latin America’s Bolivarin Resistance and Geopolitical Realignment
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US Invasion of Venezuela: Test of Latin America’s Bolivarin Resistance and Geopolitical Realignment

Saturday 3 January 2026 ،
attacks targeting an airport and an airbase. Explosions and smoke have been reported across the capital, with power outages affecting parts of the city. The Financial Times reports that at least five large Chinook helicopters took part in the operation. There have been no confirmed reports of surfa ...
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Greenland, the US Codename for Aggression against Europe
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Greenland, the US Codename for Aggression against Europe

Sunday 11 January 2026 ،
attack on one member is an attack on all and it is implicitly assumed that the military power of the US will deter any aggressor. Until recently, the idea that the US, as the most influential member of NATO, could take action against another member state was simply unthinkable, with such a scenario ...
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What Would Be Iranian Scenarios for a US Military Intervention?
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What Would Be Iranian Scenarios for a US Military Intervention?

Tuesday 13 January 2026 ،
attacks on US military bases in the region: Scenario of death of thousands of troops One of the top scenarios of Iranian reaction is a resolute response to any American actions, targeting the US interests in West Asia, especially its military bases. The US operates tens of military bases around I ...
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What’s behind US Military Relocation from Ain Al-Assad to Al-Harir?
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What’s behind US Military Relocation from Ain Al-Assad to Al-Harir?

Tuesday 20 January 2026 ،
attacks by the ISIS terrorist group. It served as the center of the command of the US operations in the region. In 2018, Trump visited the key military infrastructure. The strategic and iconic significance of Ain Al-Assad brought it under an unprecedented Iranian missile attack in 2020 launched by ...

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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.