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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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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert
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Power of Resistance Forced the US Out of Iraq: Expert

Friday 2 October 2026
withdrawal from this country has pushed Iraq's security and defense equations into a new stage. This development, in addition to transferring Baghdad-Washington relations, can affect the role of the Iraqi forces to protect security, the scale of foreign influence in this country, the regional ba ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
with Alwaght pointed to the American military withdrawal from Iraq, saying that this is not an end to the American presence in Iraq and that Washington will seek to maintain influence in this country through political, economic, security, and cultural paths. 2003 invasion and start of Iraq destruct ...
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Battle for Yemen’s Strategic Belt: Marib, Taiz, and Lahij at One Equation
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Battle for Yemen’s Strategic Belt: Marib, Taiz, and Lahij at One Equation

Sunday 4 October 2026 ،
with the New America think tank's Future Security program, described to Al Jazeera as a defining moment in terms of Yemen's internal dynamics. He cautioned, however, that the fight for Marib will be hard, because the Aden-based government's forces will treat it as an existential battle. ...
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
withdrawal from Iraq, former Iranian ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi commented on various aspects of US military presence in this country over the past two decades, saying that this relocation of forces to Jordan must be called expulsion of the American forces. He added that the September 30 e ...
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert
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True Security and Political Independence in Iraq Matters after US Military Pullout: Expert

Tuesday 6 October 2026 ،
withdrawal ignited serious debates about how to assess the results of one of the costliest and deadliest American wars in a century among the observers. On the other hand, with the US continuing to dominate the Iraqi oil and economy, there are various analyses about type and level of the US influen ...
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Claim of Civilizational War With Iran: Why’s Rubio Distorting History?
Analysis

Claim of Civilizational War With Iran: Why’s Rubio Distorting History?

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
with distortion of reality and history demonstrated both the depth of the White House's vendetta and enemity to Iranian culture and civilization and generally the powerful Iran of the past and present and at the same time were driven by political and ideological purposes, something that has not ...
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed
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White House War Cover-up Suggests Trump is Empty-handed

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
with renewed strikes to finish the job, the publication of the new round of documents about Pentagon's cover-up on the number of casualties in the Iranian missile strikes on the American bases in the Persian Gulf and also limitation of the Congress access to these military infrastructures amid h ...
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What Does State of Emergency in Kheyber Pakhtunkhwa Mean?
Analysis

What Does State of Emergency in Kheyber Pakhtunkhwa Mean?

Tuesday 13 October 2026 ،
with the constitution, the legal basis for imposing direct federal rule over the province through the governor. In the wake of the emergency declaration, Shahid Khattak, parliamentary leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), announced that Muhammad Sohail Afridi, the chief minister of Khyber Pakht ...
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Pakistan, Turkey Unreluctant to Directly Join Yemen War, Syria’s Al-Jolani Risks Sending Forces to Death in Yemen: Expert
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Pakistan, Turkey Unreluctant to Directly Join Yemen War, Syria’s Al-Jolani Risks Sending Forces to Death in Yemen: Expert

Tuesday 13 October 2026 ،
with missiles, in recent days Riyadh has stepped up its efforts in a bid to form a military coalition and draw support of its allies. This comes as field developments are showing fluidity of the advances of the two warring sides and there are conflicting reports of Saudi and Emirati-backed mercenari ...
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Bessent’s Prediction Gone Wrong: Economic Resilience in Iran, Collapse Delusion in the US
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Bessent’s Prediction Gone Wrong: Economic Resilience in Iran, Collapse Delusion in the US

Wednesday 14 October 2026 ،
with in another two weeks and was shipping its last oil cargoes to China, its main oil buyer. He made that prediction on September 27, now, on October 13, the stated deadline has come and gone, but the predicted demise of Iran's economic capacity and the collapse of its economy have not material ...

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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.