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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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Why’s not Iran Involved Russia and China in Region’s Security-Military Equations?
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Why’s not Iran Involved Russia and China in Region’s Security-Military Equations?

Saturday 1 August 2026
Ukraine, have demonstrated that countries that outsource their security to great powers effectively surrender a measure of their strategic autonomy. That is precisely why Tehran, following orders from the martyred Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei spent years building a deterrence structu ...
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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card
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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card

Friday 7 August 2026 ،
Ukraine war. According to the Moscow Times, the Kremlin views these corridors as a way to offset the collapse in trade with Europe and deepen economic ties with Asian markets, particularly India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Khusnullin's pointed reference to the Bosphorus a ...
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?
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Countdown to US-Iran Deal Deadline: Returning to War or Continuing Diplomacy?

Friday 14 August 2026 ،
Ukraine. That is why continuing a war of attrition with Iran carries a price tag that, given current stockpiles and Washington's limited short-term production capacity, is simply unsustainable. Iran's missile power at its peak A significant reality that now exists is the gap between Trump ...
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal: Trump Feigning Achievement to Cover up Losses
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US-Venezuela Oil Deal: Trump Feigning Achievement to Cover up Losses

Sunday 30 August 2026 ،
Ukraine for example. Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours, yet a year and a half into his return to the White House, the fighting has only intensified. Far from winding down, the conflict has raised fears of a wider conflagration, even a direct NATO-Russia clash. Just last week, Trump dispatche ...
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
Ukraine has given rise to one of the country's most important challenges which is the shortage of manpower in the army. This crisis is showing itself in army personnel desertions, resistance to recruitment, and even fleeing the army training courses ouside Ukraine. While Kiev desperately needs f ...
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Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff
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Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff

Wednesday 9 September 2026 ،
Ukraine remains deep. Alwaght- As the Ukraine war moves toward its sixth year, and two years past Donald Trump’s pledge to end it within 24 hours of returning to the White House, two of the president’s most trusted envoys are shuttling from Moscow to Kiev this week, seeking any glimmer o ...
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BRICS and Test of War: Iran, Energy, and New World Order Equation
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BRICS and Test of War: Iran, Energy, and New World Order Equation

Thursday 17 September 2026 ،
Ukraine, its most consequential contribution to Iran in a crisis now lies less in hard power than in diplomacy: helping break the sanctions siege through trade and the north-south corridor, and cooperating behind the scenes on military, security and intelligence matters. China, by contrast, looms l ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
Ukraine and West Asia conflicts have become a tactic to advance political and propaganda agenda of various sides in recent years.  Here is where the main issue forms: If we place this incident within the broader arc of the war and the region's political shifts, who stands to gain from turn ...
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage
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Atlantic Gap in the Final Stage

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
Ukraine and pitched as a cheaper alternative to Patriot, will serve as the real-world test of this pivot. Is Europe prepared for defense independence from the US? Meanwhile, the main issue is time. The International Institute for Strategic Studies in its recent assessment has warned that the Europ ...
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA

Wednesday 23 September 2026 ،
Ukraine, the US president said he is in contact with Russian and Ukrainian leaders and vowed to bring the conflict to an end. His speech, however, offered no concrete details on how such a deal would be reached. Election speech at UNGA A striking share of Trump’s address, meanwhile, was devo ...

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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.