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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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Hamas’s Post-war Political and Military Future
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Hamas’s Post-war Political and Military Future

Saturday 11 October 2025
US-led foreign committee, the resistance factions have refused such a term. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and The People Front for Liberation of Palestine on Friday stated that they reject any foreign mandate on Gaza, asserting that administration of Gaza will be purely Palestinian. The three movements in ...
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US Military Transport Loaded with Weapons Lands at Airbase in Northeastern Syria
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US Military Transport Loaded with Weapons Lands at Airbase in Northeastern Syria

Tuesday 28 October 2025 ،
US-led coalition to reinforce its positions in northeastern Syria. Around 2,000 US troops are currently stationed across several bases in Syria, mostly in the northeast. Despite this continued activity, US officials have signaled plans to scale back, with Donald Trump’s designated ambassador ...
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US Multi-layer Plan to Dominate Gaza
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US Multi-layer Plan to Dominate Gaza

Sunday 16 November 2025 ،
US-led economic and security order. Without control over the Gaza case, no plan for a wider normalization between the Arab world and Israel is feasible. So, the US is attempting to transform the Gaza case into a political victory for itself. The objective is to activate the path for new normalizati ...
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Pakistan and Taliban: From Alliance to Enmity
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Pakistan and Taliban: From Alliance to Enmity

Monday 17 November 2025 ،
US-led Western anti-terrorism coalition. As a result, Islamabad formally cut off its support to the Taliban and provided military bases and logistical lines to the Western forces.  Yet, beneath this public reversal, elements within Pakistan's security establishment, particularly the ISI, m ...
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Mystery of Gaza ’Peace Council’: An Ambiguous Mission with Dangerous Objectives
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Mystery of Gaza ’Peace Council’: An Ambiguous Mission with Dangerous Objectives

Thursday 20 November 2025 ،
US-led mission have essentially not accepted the mission to disarm Hamas, arguing it is impossible to implement. There is a question asked by all: How can a limited international force realize an aim the Israeli regime over the past two years with mobilization of all of its military capacities, inte ...
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Driving Forces Behind Rising Iranian-Russian Alliance
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Driving Forces Behind Rising Iranian-Russian Alliance

Thursday 18 December 2025 ،
US-led, agenda to reshape the West Asian regional order. At the same time, Russia’s increasingly vocal criticism of the war in Gaza has aligned closely with Iran’s narrative, further reinforcing bilateral cooperation. From the outset of the conflict, Moscow backed calls for a ceasefire ...
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Disarming Iraq’s Resistance: A US Pipe Dream
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Disarming Iraq’s Resistance: A US Pipe Dream

Monday 22 December 2025 ،
US-led invasion was intended to prevent instability in the Kurdistan Region. That said, while Kurdish parties and Washington regard the disarmament of these forces as unlawful, this legal framework is neither immutable nor beyond revision. Moreover, in March 2018, the PMF were formally integrated in ...
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How Yemen Turned the Red Sea into a Global Maritime Wildcard
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How Yemen Turned the Red Sea into a Global Maritime Wildcard

Monday 29 December 2025 ،
US-led military responses, Yemen retained most of its capabilities and effectively imposed a “strategic veto” over Red Sea transit. The episode signaled a structural shift in maritime power: control of the seas can now be challenged by smaller actors using asymmetric tools. Yemen’s ...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Says Iran Played a Key Role in Defeating ISIS
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Iraqi Prime Minister Says Iran Played a Key Role in Defeating ISIS

Sunday 4 January 2026 ،
US-led International Coalition, announced the imminent handover of the Ain al-Asad airbase to Iraqi forces, highlighted the termination of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, and warned of regional threats posed by what he called “Zionist” plans, stressing Iraq’s role as a pillar o ...
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ISIS Prisoners Break Free: Conflicting Goals of Kurds and Al-Jolani Govt.
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ISIS Prisoners Break Free: Conflicting Goals of Kurds and Al-Jolani Govt.

Friday 23 January 2026 ،
US-led international coalition, these forces have shouldered the daunting task of containing this human ticking bomb. For years, local officials in the autonomous administration of north and east Syria, as well as international bodies like the UN, have warned that these prisons are a ticking time b ...

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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.