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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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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026
of the Israeli regime's political scene. What is happening in Netanyahu’s camp is not the casual, pre-election anxiety, but a real fear of losing the power and more dramatically, the real possibility that Religious Party Zionism, led by current Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of Net ...
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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 ،
of revenge for martyred leader. Alwaght- Unprecedented details have emerged about Donald Trump’s covert exit from Turkey following the NATO summit on July 8, now one of the most explosive security flaps of his presidency. The story took a new turn when The Washington Post, citing intelligence ...
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Why’s Pentagon Drip-feeding Information on Iran Attacks Damage?
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Why’s Pentagon Drip-feeding Information on Iran Attacks Damage?

Sunday 16 August 2026 ،
of the White House's desperation in managing the war agenda and possible changes in the nature of the future of American presence in the region, especially when it comes to interacting with the Congress. WSJ reports that since the so-called Operation Epic Fury was launched later in February aga ...
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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 ،
of Turkey nurtures his neo-Ottoman dream leadership, complete with potentially performing prayers at Damascus’s Umayyad Mosque, Israeli regime has turned that dream into a jumbled nightmare, upending Turkey’s calculus for the new Syria. The competition between Turkey and Israeli regime ...
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UN to Choose New Chief: Why’s Tel Aviv Worried?
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UN to Choose New Chief: Why’s Tel Aviv Worried?

Sunday 30 August 2026 ،
of 2026, and his successor takes over on January 1, 2027. Several leading candidates have already emerged, and the Security Council has held its first informal straw poll. In that vote, Rebeca Grynspan, a former Costa Rican vice president who now heads the UN Conference on Trade and Development, cam ...
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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 ،
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 officials. Kurdistan's Rudaw news network reported that the BBC, citing some American officials, reported on Saturday that Pentagon has notif ...
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
of Ukraine has given rise to one of the country's most important challenges which is the shortage of manpower in the army. This crisis is showing itself in army personnel desertions, resistance to recruitment, and even fleeing the army training courses ouside Ukraine. While Kiev desperately need ...
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Amending Iraq’s PMF Law: Change of Structure or Nature?
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Amending Iraq’s PMF Law: Change of Structure or Nature?

Sunday 13 September 2026 ،
of the Iraqi resistance groups and the way of their organization is growing, the draft law of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) has once again become one the most controversial legislation cases and the political parties in the parliament are set to discuss it in parliamentary meetings.  M ...
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss
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Fifth Fleet: From Safe Base to Story of Loss

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
of its biggest military infrastructures in West Asia in Bahrain as Iran decided to hit its operational heart. Alwaght- Though the US President Donald Trump claimed that the Iranian missile strikes on the American bases in the Persian Gulf have not inflicted meaningful damage on these facilities ovet ...
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?

Tuesday 22 September 2026 ،
of home and foreign factors. Alwaght- The unification of the Peshmerga forces in Iraq's Kurdistan region these days presents itself as one of the salient security developments of the autonomous Kurdish region. O the surface, it may look like a military and organizational project to create a unif ...

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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.