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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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Emerging Reports of Damage to US Bases Explain Why Trump Demanded Ceasefire
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Emerging Reports of Damage to US Bases Explain Why Trump Demanded Ceasefire

Monday 18 May 2026
Pentagon and Trump's critics accuse him of lying and covering up the costs, one of the less addressed issues is the costs related to destruction of the American military infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region. These infrastructures are a result of decades of work of the US and its allies and ...
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WSJ and NYT Fact-Check Trump’s Claims on Delaying Strikes Against Iran
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WSJ and NYT Fact-Check Trump’s Claims on Delaying Strikes Against Iran

Tuesday 19 May 2026 ،
Pentagon sources revealing that the real reason for Trump's backpedal was Iran's high state of readiness to counter aggression, including Iranian commanders' ability to analyze US flight patterns and defend against predictable American tactics. International analysts view Trump's re ...
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Fact-check: Have China and Russia Left Iran Alone in Confrontation of the US?
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Fact-check: Have China and Russia Left Iran Alone in Confrontation of the US?

Saturday 23 May 2026 ،
Pentagon’s initial assessments. American analysts now suspect Iran used foreign-supplied data to pinpoint target coordinates. There have also been claims that such cooperation played a role in downing or targeting advanced US fighter jets and drones. But credible, verified evidence for these ...
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Shadow of Horror over NATO: Oreshnik Missile Use Sends Message Beyond Ukraine Conflict
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Shadow of Horror over NATO: Oreshnik Missile Use Sends Message Beyond Ukraine Conflict

Thursday 28 May 2026 ،
Pentagon no time to react. The message to Washington is clear: stop adventuring in Greenland and other flashpoints, because Moscow has the means to counter your escalatory moves. Trump’s “Golden Dome” project, still in its early stages, was designed to counter old-fashioned ballis ...
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Iran’s More Credible Threat Vs. Trump’s Credible Threat
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Iran’s More Credible Threat Vs. Trump’s Credible Threat

Saturday 13 June 2026 ،
Pentagon as saying the strikes were meant to extract concessions from Iran in negotiations. This official acknowledgment, which is not far from the truth, implies that Iranian negotiators have so far stood firmly on the right positions. By sticking to their principles, they have prevented the Americ ...
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Anti-Iranian Algorithm War: Israeli and American Assassinations Using AI
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Anti-Iranian Algorithm War: Israeli and American Assassinations Using AI

Sunday 21 June 2026 ،
Pentagon AI chief Cameron Stanley to back that claim, with Stanley swearing under oath that Grok is now being used in Project Maven, the US military’s AI-assisted targeting program, which originally ran on Anthropic’s Claude model. In his statement, Stanley said Maven’s intelligent ...
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Minab School Crime: Why’s US Angry with ICC Judges for Iran Visit?
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Minab School Crime: Why’s US Angry with ICC Judges for Iran Visit?

Saturday 18 July 2026 ،
Pentagon, however, has yet to release a final official investigation, remaining silent on the details of the case. Meanwhile, the Minab school attack, because of its staggering child death toll, has become one of the most prominent cases of civilian casualties in the war, and continues to fuel deba ...
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Why Are the US Casualties in the Iran War Rising?
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Why Are the US Casualties in the Iran War Rising?

Monday 20 July 2026 ،
Pentagon relocated a portion of its forces and equipment from several Persian Gulf states to Jordan. Restrictions imposed by some US allies on the use of bases or airspace turned Jordan into one of the most critical staging grounds for American troops. That very concentration of forces has raised th ...
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IRGC Says It Struck US Military Facilities in Jordan, Amazon Hub in Bahrain
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IRGC Says It Struck US Military Facilities in Jordan, Amazon Hub in Bahrain

Wednesday 22 July 2026 ،
Pentagon's Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) program. Iran said the operations were carried out in retaliation for what it described as repeated US attacks on Iranian territory. Iranian officials maintained that the strikes were directed at US military assets rather than regional countr ...
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On a Shaky Ground: Where Will Newly-inked US-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Head?
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On a Shaky Ground: Where Will Newly-inked US-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Head?

Sunday 26 July 2026 ،
Pentagon adviser, argues that the agreement builds the very infrastructure and know-how that could one day smooth Riyadh’s path to a more advanced nuclear capability. In the view of analysts, even if Saudi Arabia never pursues an actual bomb, acquiring fuel-cycle technology and infrastructure ...

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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.