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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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Top British Diplomats Hold Talks with Leader of HTS Militant Group in Syria
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Top British Diplomats Hold Talks with Leader of HTS Militant Group in Syria

Tuesday 17 December 2024
President Bashar al-Assad, amid widespread claims of Western and Israeli backing. Photographs released by HTS's military operations department showed a meeting between Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), and senior British officials in Damascus on Monday ...
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Syria, a History of Anti-Israeli Occupation Fight
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Syria, a History of Anti-Israeli Occupation Fight

Wednesday 18 December 2024 ،
President Anwar Sadat in 1979 raised a white flag and signed normalization deal with Israel. Actually, Syria remained a serious obstacle ahead of realization of an active Israeli-Western project to bury the Palestinian cause, something putting Damascus at the center of plots hatched by the enemies o ...
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How Will Assad Fall Impact North African Countries?
Analysis

How Will Assad Fall Impact North African Countries?

Saturday 21 December 2024 ،
Assad government in Syria marked one of the biggest West Asia developments. This development can bring about substantial consequences to various countries,, including those of North Africa. These consequences can show themselves in economic, political, social, and security areas. This paper sheds li ...
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria

Sunday 22 December 2024 ،
President Bashar al-Assad's government. The US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger D. Carstens, and the US Envoy for Syria Affairs Daniel Rubenstein on Friday met with al-Jolani. According to the State Department’s report, th ...
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Terrorists Assassinate an Iranian Embassy Staff Member in Damascus
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Terrorists Assassinate an Iranian Embassy Staff Member in Damascus

Sunday 22 December 2024 ،
President Bashar al-Assad’s government on December 8. No timeline was provided for reopening the embassy, but Baghaei assured efforts are ongoing to achieve this objective.
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Has Tel Aviv Achieved Its Aims by Bombing Yemen?
Analysis

Has Tel Aviv Achieved Its Aims by Bombing Yemen?

Tuesday 24 December 2024 ،
President Biden has agreed that Hamas should be eliminated. However, Israeli has not been able to eliminate Hamas and it is unlikely Netanyahu can destroy the Yemeni forces as he failed to defeat Hamas.
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Understanding Egypt’s Behavior towards Post-Assad Syria: Challenges and Opportunities
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Understanding Egypt’s Behavior towards Post-Assad Syria: Challenges and Opportunities

Wednesday 25 December 2024 ،
President Mohamad Morsi, Cairo backed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad. But with presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian policy shifted to implicit support to Damascus and Syria stability.  The two countries have exceptional historical relations with each other, because in the Octob ...
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Kurdish-led SDF Repels Turkish Militants in Syria, Vows to “Halt” Ankara’s Ambitions
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Kurdish-led SDF Repels Turkish Militants in Syria, Vows to “Halt” Ankara’s Ambitions

Wednesday 25 December 2024 ،
President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Turkish-backed groups, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched surprise attacks in late November, capturing major cities and Damascus by early December, further complicating the situation in northern Syria.
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What Are the Big Obstacles ahead of HTS Ruling Syria?
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What Are the Big Obstacles ahead of HTS Ruling Syria?

Friday 27 December 2024 ،
President Bashar al-Assad. Ahmad al-Sharaa, better known for his nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has hectic days being new leader of Syria and almost everyday hosts foreign diplomats and officials. The conditions in Syria are relatively calm, but will this calm last long or is it just the lull ...
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Who Really Deserves to Be Person of the Year?
Analysis

Who Really Deserves to Be Person of the Year?

Saturday 28 December 2024 ،
President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the Gaza issue was deliberately marginalized by the Western and Arab media, as if tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children were not killed in the war.  This disregard of the mainstream media to Gaza catastrophe, which is driven by direct and indir ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution