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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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How Will Assad Fall Impact North African Countries?
Analysis

How Will Assad Fall Impact North African Countries?

Saturday 21 December 2024
groups released all of the prisoners without examining their cases. Therefore, thousands of African migrant terrorists who were among the prisoners [these terrorists are even ideologically opposed to Hamas as a resistance group and have classified them as infidels] will be released from prison and w ...
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges

Tuesday 21 January 2025 ،
groups, Syria developments have fanned the concerns of regional countries especially neighbors about the consequences of instability in this country. Meanwhile, while the Iraqi government is most concerned about the return of instability to Syria, the leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan region in Erbil have ...
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A United Regional Front Is the Key to Checkmate Terrorism in Pakistan
Analysis

A United Regional Front Is the Key to Checkmate Terrorism in Pakistan

Tuesday 4 February 2025 ،
group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the terrorist group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for many deadly bombings, suicide attacks and attacks on security forces in the province in the past. Meanwhile, the Pakistani army announced on Saturday that at least 23 ...
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Syria Neighbors Meeting: A Display of Sense of Danger Combined with Distrust
Analysis

Syria Neighbors Meeting: A Display of Sense of Danger Combined with Distrust

Wednesday 12 March 2025 ،
groups and sides targeting the country's security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.  The parties condemned the Israeli regime’s aggression on Syrian territory, which threatens the territorial integrity of the country, and called for the withdrawal of the occupiers and respect ...
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Syria Facing Partition Risk, Al-Jolani Can’t Rule Syria with Iron Fist: Expert
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Syria Facing Partition Risk, Al-Jolani Can’t Rule Syria with Iron Fist: Expert

Wednesday 12 March 2025 ،
groups in Syria's costal regions have winded down after two days, but the exchange of fire and partisan operations against the HTS forces continue. According to initial information, over 1,000 people of Alawite minority were masacared over the past three days. The largest number of deaths were ...
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran
Analysis

Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran

Tuesday 1 April 2025 ،
group in 2014 following a fatwa by grand Shiite cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani of Iraq. This analysis sheds light on the motivation behind this US demand, the PMF role in neutralizing the US plots in Iraq and the region, and the possible ramifications of dissolution of this effective anti-te ...
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Taliban No More on Russian Terror List: What’s Kremlin Seeking?
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Taliban No More on Russian Terror List: What’s Kremlin Seeking?

Monday 21 April 2025 ،
group. Alwaght- Just until last week, any member of the Taliban who entered Russia should have been arrested according to the Russian laws and could face up to 20 years in jail on charges of terrorism. However, since 2016 no member of the Taliban was arrested upon arrival in Russia and the Taliban o ...
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Foreign Actors Involved in India-Pakistan Crisis: Expert
Paper

Foreign Actors Involved in India-Pakistan Crisis: Expert

Saturday 3 May 2025 ،
groups are active in it that seek independence or accession to Pakistan. From time to time, we witness attacks in this region, for which India usually accuses Pakistan for its alleged backing to separatist groups, although Islamabad has always denied these accusations. Second, the timing of this att ...
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Israel and HTS: Two Blades of the Same Sword Tearing Apart Syria
Analysis

Israel and HTS: Two Blades of the Same Sword Tearing Apart Syria

Monday 5 May 2025 ،
groups affiliated with the HTS recently infiltrated Druze-populated areas and sparked the conflicts with arbitrary actions in order to accuse the Druze of creating insecurity in Syria. In this connection, Nikolai Sukhov, a leading researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies at the Russian Acad ...
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How Can India-Pakistan War Impact Central Asia?
Analysis

How Can India-Pakistan War Impact Central Asia?

Saturday 10 May 2025 ،
groups more active. As a result, increased competition of powers in this region due to war may push Central Asia towards fragmentation, in which some countries tend towards China (such as Turkmenistan) and others towards Russia or the West (such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan), something expected to dis ...

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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.