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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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Saudi-Led Forces Seize 2 More Yemen-Bound Oil Tankers in Violation of UN-Brokered Truce
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Saudi-Led Forces Seize 2 More Yemen-Bound Oil Tankers in Violation of UN-Brokered Truce

Wednesday 7 September 2022
Saudi-backed militants also launched a total of 21 artillery rounds, targeting residential buildings in Ma’rib, Hajjah, Sa’ada, Hudaydah and border areas. The facilities of Yemeni armed forces were also hit in Balaq al-Sharqi and Mala’a areas of Ma’rib province. Last month, ...
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Yemen Split May Have Been Initiated with ‘Hadhramout National Council’ Codename
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Yemen Split May Have Been Initiated with ‘Hadhramout National Council’ Codename

Monday 26 June 2023 ،
Saudi-backed government, but the uprising was suppressed with armed force of the Saudi troops and mercenaries that killed and wounded a number of protesters. Actually, people of Hadhramout are not happy with the occupation and this can prove costly to the coalition.  Another challenging issue ...
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Is the Separatist STC Washington and Tel Aviv’s Option to Counter Yemen’s Ansarullah?
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Is the Separatist STC Washington and Tel Aviv’s Option to Counter Yemen’s Ansarullah?

Wednesday 13 December 2023 ،
Saudi-backed Presidential and Leadership Council buildings in Aden and the expulsion of its head Rashad al-Alimi by the the UAE proxies, a new Riyadh-supported militia called National Shield Forces and headed by al-Alimi was formed. These forces are distributed across the country, from the borders o ...
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Israel Deadlock in Yemen: Why’s Sana’a Unbeatable?
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Israel Deadlock in Yemen: Why’s Sana’a Unbeatable?

Saturday 12 July 2025 ،
Saudi-backed royalists, yet they failed to decisively defeat them. While the political landscape has changed since then, the geography has not. Yemen’s vast, rugged terrain makes any military campaign—even with ground troops—extremely challenging and costly. Neither the US nor Isra ...
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Yemen Calls for UAE Forces’ Exit as Emergency Is Announced in Hadhramout
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Yemen Calls for UAE Forces’ Exit as Emergency Is Announced in Hadhramout

Tuesday 30 December 2025 ،
Saudi-backed factions and separatists. The crisis follows recent STC military advances across southern and eastern Yemen, including seizures of oil facilities in Hadhramout and clashes with local tribal forces. Despite regional pressure, the STC has rejected withdrawal calls and discussed parallel ...
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Pakistan’s Growing Military-Security Influence in Arab World
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Pakistan’s Growing Military-Security Influence in Arab World

Wednesday 10 June 2026 ،
Saudi-backed security arrangements across the southern Arabian Peninsula. Strategically, Yemen is no mere regional crisis for Islamabad. It is part of a much larger equation: the security of the Makran Sea, the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, and the world’s vital energy shipping lanes. That explains w ...
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Yemeni Forces Push Back Saudi Troops in al-Jawf’s al-Yatama
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Yemeni Forces Push Back Saudi Troops in al-Jawf’s al-Yatama

Tuesday 8 September 2026 ،
Saudi-backed troops who entered Souq al-Yatama in al-Jawf province, using flanking and ambush tactics to destroy military vehicles and armored units. They said the area had been cleared and that remaining forces were being pursued. Separately, Ansarullah said it had halted another Saudi-backed adva ...
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation

Saturday 12 September 2026 ،
Saudi-backed proxy forces struck Sana'a airport. The fragile balance Riyadh had sought to maintain, keeping Yemen’s vital economic arteries under its thumb and sustaining unlimited pressure on Sana'a, collapsed overnight. After a high-level Sana'a delegation attended the funeral of ...
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Early Fall: Why’s Anti-Ansarallah Front Collapsed This Soon?
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Early Fall: Why’s Anti-Ansarallah Front Collapsed This Soon?

Sunday 13 September 2026 ،
Saudi-backed mercenaries from Perim island and Bab-el-Mandeb region, marking one of the fastest collapses of the defense lines of the militias backed by Riyadh. New Arab reports that this loss derives not only from fire and strength upper hand of Ansarullah resistance movement but also from a combin ...
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Latest on Yemen Conflict: Ansarullah Eyeing Progress to Aden
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Latest on Yemen Conflict: Ansarullah Eyeing Progress to Aden

Monday 21 September 2026 ،
Saudi-backed Aden government. Alwaght- Yemen's Ansarullah advances into the western coastal regions and seizure of Bab-el-Mandeb region have redrawn a major part of Yemen military map, opening the door to new phase of clashes whose consequences will not be limited to inside Yemen, but spread to ...

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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.