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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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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
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi truly starts the scheduled disarming plan, Iraq will jump in one of its most important periods of redefining political-security structure, a period about which the main question is not which group hands over arms, but how capable the government is to translate its politic ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi has put restriction of weapons to the state at the top of its security and political agenda, an approach that on the surface may seem to be aimed at ending armed activities outside the umbrella of the official institutions, but its real aspects go beyond the issue of arms ...
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
New York Times, in a sharply worded piece headlined Trump's Shameful Flight, assessed the political toll on the White House. Critics, the magazine noted, saw the Ankara getaway as the mirror image of Trump's tough-guy persona, not strength, but disarray, and a symbol of Washington's mudd ...
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Aoun’s Political Suicide with Silence to Israeli Aggression
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Aoun’s Political Suicide with Silence to Israeli Aggression

Monday 17 August 2026 ،
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam dismissed the attacks as merely a blow to Lebanon's stability, while President Joseph Aoun called them a setback to the negotiation process. But the real issue lies in the chasm between these statements and the government's ability to change anything on the ground. ...
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Trump’s Retreat on Gaza: Shifting from Eliminating Hamas to Talking with It
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Trump’s Retreat on Gaza: Shifting from Eliminating Hamas to Talking with It

Tuesday 18 August 2026 ،
Prime Minister Benjamin is against the US initiative and still insists on fully disarming Hamas before any decision to withdraw from Gaza. On the opposite side, Hamas insists on withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces and has established a connection between disarming and the future Palestinian ...
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Iran’s Central Bank Governor in Iraq: Where is Settling $11 Billion Iraqi Debt to Iran Going?
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Iran’s Central Bank Governor in Iraq: Where is Settling $11 Billion Iraqi Debt to Iran Going?

Wednesday 19 August 2026 ،
News reported that Iraq and the US had reached an understanding on a mechanism allowing Baghdad to settle part of its gas debt not through cash transfers, but by supplying goods such as food and medicine. The single biggest obstacle to repatriating Iran's funds remains US sanctions. Ahmed Mouss ...
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Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?
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Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?

Saturday 22 August 2026 ،
Minister Israel Katz went further, directly addressing Recep Tayyip Erdogan with a blunt warning, saying :Do not drag Turkey into dangerous adventures in Syria, and do not test Israel's resolve to defend itself. Turkey reacted in a strong-toned statement, saying that by striking the Syrian infr ...
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel

Tuesday 25 August 2026 ،
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and another defendant for attack on Global Sumud flotila for breaking Gaza siege. On August 21, Turkey announced Ankara asked a Red Notice of Interpol for Netanyahu, who is already under risk of arrest by ICC for war crimes in Gaza. The charges include genocide, cri ...
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
Kurdistan is heavily dependent on US support and Kurdish leaders are not sure they can survive alone. Alwaght- Reports suggest that the process of withdrawal of the US forces and Patriot missile systems from Erbil suburbs is making a gap between some media sources and Iraqi Kurdistan region's of ...
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean

Friday 4 September 2026 ،
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the European Union of double standards, saying the EU has remained silent over Turkey's illegal occupation of half of Cyprus, yet it opposes the Jewish people's historic right to live in their ancestral homeland. Sustained Tel Aviv-Ankara hostility ...

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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.