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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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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache
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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache

Thursday 3 September 2026
attacks reaching record levels in 2026. In effect, Netanyahu spent the past several years cozying up to this political fringe to keep his right-wing coalition afloat. But now those same allies are exacting a heavy political toll, because his problem is not just the settlers' terrorist behavior; ...
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Iran’s IRGC Dismantles US-Israeli-Backed Terrorist Network in Southeast
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Iran’s IRGC Dismantles US-Israeli-Backed Terrorist Network in Southeast

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
attacks against predetermined targets in the province. The IRGC said the planned operations were intended to be coordinated with the ongoing US war.
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift

Sunday 6 September 2026 ،
attacks. Separately, Iraq’s national security adviser, Qasim al-Araji, insisted that the timeline for US troop withdrawal remains firm, warning that any attempt to delay the international coalition’s exit will have negative consequences.  Tactical withdrawal or sustainable strateg ...
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UAE-Algeria Rift Is Beyond a Diplomatic Gap
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UAE-Algeria Rift Is Beyond a Diplomatic Gap

Saturday 12 September 2026 ،
attack on Abu Dhabi, saying wherever they set foot, blood is spilled. Tebboune added that had Algiers not wanted to prevent deepening the rifts in the Arab world, the severing of ties would have happened long ago. We want them to stay away from us so that blood is not spilled in our country. Emirat ...
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case

Monday 14 September 2026 ،
attacked the Iranian city’s children sports facilities with banned weapons on the first day of war, killing and wounding many of them. Alwaght- Over the past seven months, massive American and Israeli strikes across Iran have laid bare a raw portrait of violence and atrocity, killing and wounding a ...
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Iranian Cleric Assassination: Marks of Israeli-American Plot
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Iranian Cleric Assassination: Marks of Israeli-American Plot

Wednesday 16 September 2026 ،
attacks targeting religious and security figures of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran. A few days before this, a Kurdish Sunni cleric was gunned down in Western Azerbaijan. A look back at the developments in Sistan and Baluchestan province over the past year reveals terrorist gro ...
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
attack in recent months. Trump's view of the Kurds Two things have driven this American decision: First, Trump's unhappiness with the Kurdish failure to align with his war against Iran and second the ambiguity surrounding the fate of the arms the US supplied to the anti-Iranian and separat ...
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Syriafication of Sahel Region: Powers Wrestling to Redefine Strategic Foothold
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Syriafication of Sahel Region: Powers Wrestling to Redefine Strategic Foothold

Tuesday 29 September 2026 ،
attack by a coalition of Tuareg separatist militias and the rdical group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal-Muslimin, which claims affiliation to al-Qaeda, on the strategic northern Malian city of Kidal, an assault that forced Africa Corps forces to withdraw, showed that Europe is taking the competition ...
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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 ،
attacked by resistance forces. Afghahi described the 2011 withdrawal as a serious defeat for the US, saying that when the Americans entered Iraq and Baghdad fell in 2003, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary at the time, was asked how long they would stay in Iraq. He arrogantly replied that th ...
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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 ،
attacks on the people of Gaza, Yemen, and Lebanon, the resistance, unity of fronts, and anti-occupation struggles are witnessing a boost. Weapons discipline instead of disarming  Kazemi Qomi then turned to a new vocabulary emerging around resistance groups, saying a shift is underway in Yemen ...

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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.