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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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Role of Terrorism in Defining US Global Interests
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Role of Terrorism in Defining US Global Interests

Sunday 11 December 2016
The best example was the Korean war of 1950. To restrict the power of maneuvering of the opposite side, the two sides' leaders found creating and strengthening opposing groups near the other side’s territorial borders as an influential tactic. Creation of Al-Qaeda militant group in Afghan ...
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Bin Salman’s Betting on Wrong Horse Normalizing Ties with Tel Aviv
Analysis

Bin Salman’s Betting on Wrong Horse Normalizing Ties with Tel Aviv

Saturday 11 June 2022 ،
The king-in-waiting has recently accelerated work to prepare the ground for a thaw with Israel but he is investing wrong. Alwaght- As the Ukraine war and global energy crisis give Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a chance to exploit the Western need for oil output increase to break out of mult ...
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New Red Sea Bridge a Saudi Push to Win Battle of Corridors
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New Red Sea Bridge a Saudi Push to Win Battle of Corridors

Monday 9 June 2025 ،
The project to build a railway between Egypt and Saudi Arabia is not new and was first proposed by Saudi King Salman in 2016. According to this plan, the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt is to be connected to Ras al-Sheikh Hamid in Saudi Arabia through a bridge that crosses the island of Tira ...

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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.