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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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Crackdown on Muharram: Taliban Continue Religious Suppression of Shiite Community
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Crackdown on Muharram: Taliban Continue Religious Suppression of Shiite Community

Monday 22 June 2026
Rights Watch confirm that under Taliban rule, Shiites and other religious minorities in Afghanistan live in an atmosphere of fear and insecurity. Adding to the outrage, Ayatollah Waezzadeh Bahsudi, one of Afghanistan's top Shiite authorities, recently revealed that Taliban officials refuse to m ...
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Palestine’s Place in Martyred Leader’s Worldview
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Palestine’s Place in Martyred Leader’s Worldview

Wednesday 8 July 2026 ،
Council, who attended the funeral ceremony in Tehran, described Ayatollah Khamenei as the father of the world's oppressed and stressed that he remained faithful to the Palestinian cause and the resistance until his final moments, paying a heavy price to support the resistance movements. These s ...
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Hamas Gaza Govt. Dissolution: Aims and Effects
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Hamas Gaza Govt. Dissolution: Aims and Effects

Thursday 16 July 2026 ،
Hamas is handing over government in favor of national unity and to take away one of Israeli excuses. Alwaght- Months after the ostensible end of the war in Gaza, the coastal enclave's reality keeps to be a far cry from the post-war revival promised under the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement and reconst ...
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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 ،
Council and a former 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 technolo ...
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Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran
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Eastern View of SCO to Aggression against Iran

Tuesday 28 July 2026 ،
Council of Foreign Ministers, underscoring UN Charter principles, condemned the US military aggression against Iran as a flagrant violation of international law and core UN tenets. The rebuke, he added, reflects member states' concern about West Asian turmoil and their rejection of military acti ...
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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements
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From Oil to Development Road: Obstacles Ahead of Major Iraq-Turkey Agreements

Tuesday 4 August 2026 ،
Council, the Joint Planning Group, and Permanent Joint Committees, all designed to create an institutional and strategic architecture for sustainably deepening ties. At the conclusion of the Erdogan-al-Zaydi talks, the parties inked deals spanning energy, transportation, education, and water. They ...
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Israel’s Quietly Making West Bank Another Gaza Using Army of Settlers
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Israel’s Quietly Making West Bank Another Gaza Using Army of Settlers

Sunday 16 August 2026 ،
Council session on West Bank developments. Though it featured stark warnings that the situation was reaching a breaking point and expressions of deep concern over escalating violence, the meeting ultimately ended without a resolution or any operational mechanism to rein in settler attacks. In Europ ...
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?

Wednesday 26 August 2026 ،
Council, said: “Iran has found many ways to keep trading over decades of sanctions. Its commercial and financial networks operate like a cat-and-mouse game, when the US closes one channel, traders and intermediaries look for another. Sanctions can raise the cost of doing business for Iran, but ...
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining

Thursday 27 August 2026 ،
Rights Watch. Over time, the movement's demands expanded beyond Gaza. Students began linking the war to broader economic and structural issues, calling on universities to divest from companies doing business with Israel or profiting from the war in Gaza, and to sever ties with defense contracto ...
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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 ،
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, came in first with 10 “encourage” votes. She was followed by Guyana’s Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Rafael Gr ...

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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.