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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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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert
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Impossible to Disarm and Dissolve Iraqi Resistance, US Pushing to Obliterate Resistance in the Region: Expert

Monday 15 June 2026
West Asia of resistance groups aimed at normalizing Israel in the region, something again related to the resistance groups. So, discrediting and de legitimizing, and ultimately eliminating, resistance institutions and organizations from Iraq is the ideal scenario for the Americans in the region and ...
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American Diplomatic Coup in Baghdad: What’s Driving US Special Envoy’s Visit to Iraq?
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American Diplomatic Coup in Baghdad: What’s Driving US Special Envoy’s Visit to Iraq?

Friday 19 June 2026 ،
West Asia crises separately. Rather, it has resorted to a strategic unification and engineering the power structure in the whole region. This visit, coming after Washington-Tehran deal to end the war of aggression on Iran and also important developments in Iraq and Syria, is actually a document unv ...
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How’s Iran War Exposed Israel Weakness?
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How’s Iran War Exposed Israel Weakness?

Tuesday 23 June 2026 ،
West Asia, capable of fighting on multiple fronts and maintaining military superiority without reliance on others. But the recent years developments, especially the indirect and then direct confrontation with Iran have shown that security and survival of this regime rests not on the domestic capabil ...
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy
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Security Belts from Lebanon to Syria: Objectives and Consequences of New Israeli Strategy

Thursday 25 June 2026 ،
West Asia. The Israeli army now occupies 800 square kilometers of Lebanon territory, over 60 percent of Gaza, and large tracts of southern Syria in the Golan Heights to Jabal Al Sheikh (Mount Hermon) and plans to evacuate locals under the guise of setting up buffers and hold them permanently. This ...
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Iran and Pakistan: Emerging Axis in New West Asia Security Order Architecture
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Iran and Pakistan: Emerging Axis in New West Asia Security Order Architecture

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
West Asia’s future security architecture. The diplomatic whirlwind since Geneva makes one thing clear: regional and extra-regional powers know full well that the outcome would not be confined to Tehran-Washington relations. It could reshape geopolitical equations from the Persian Gulf and the ...
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Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf
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Rubio’s Difficult Mission to Save "Petrodollar Order" in Persian Gulf

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
West Asia and North Africa, and during the war deployed some 40,000 to 50,000 troops in the region. But the latest conflict made one thing clear: in a war scenario, that many forces and assets do not guarantee safety, and they become a costly liability and a prime target for Iran if direct confronta ...
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Love of Imam Hussein Gathers Us: Ashura 2026 Marked Across the World
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Love of Imam Hussein Gathers Us: Ashura 2026 Marked Across the World

Saturday 27 June 2026 ،
Western countries In several Western countries, Ashura ceremonies were held in Hussainiyahs and, in some cases, through street processions. Commemorations took place in Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver), the US (New York, Washington, Detroit, Houston), Germany, France, Sweden, and Australia. Ob ...
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Araghchi’s Iraq Visit: From Post-war Order to Tehran-Baghdad Security Cooperation
Analysis

Araghchi’s Iraq Visit: From Post-war Order to Tehran-Baghdad Security Cooperation

Tuesday 30 June 2026 ،
West Asia equations on their head. So, Araghchi talked with Iraqi officials on the future of regional security, de-escalation, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine conditions, and also the role of regional countries in preventing the expansion of crisis. In the eyes of Tehran, regional nations can develop ...
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Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey
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Armenian Genocide: New Israeli Card in Geopolitical Contest with Turkey

Thursday 2 July 2026 ،
West, have leveled unprecedented criticism against Israel. In such climate, recognizing the Armenian genocide could be a bid to rehabilitate Israel's moral image: to cast the regime as a champion of genocide victims, a nation that refuses to stay silent in the face of historical atrocities. Bu ...
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New Arab View of Post-war and Post-agreement Iran
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New Arab View of Post-war and Post-agreement Iran

Friday 3 July 2026 ،
West Asia region, particularly after a period of inflamed tensions and the subsequent push toward an Iran-US agreement, have revealed clear signs that Arab states in the region are recalibrating their perspectives. In the post–Iran-US conflict era, Arab policymakers and elites are now weighin ...

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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.