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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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Ankara and Tehran: From Economic Partnership to Anti-Israeli Alliance
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Ankara and Tehran: From Economic Partnership to Anti-Israeli Alliance

Monday 1 December 2025
West Asia, a region whose name is mainly associated with security and political agreements, these days is experiencing some trade cooperation beside geopolitical and political interactions. This security and trade cooperation among the regional nations can be seen in the latest visit to Iran of the ...
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Will Hadhramaut Battle Change Yemen Map?
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Will Hadhramaut Battle Change Yemen Map?

Sunday 7 December 2025 ،
Western thinking on how to handle the Yemen case within the broader vision of a “new Middle East”, particularly after the failure of military tools in eight years of war against Sana’a, and after the collapse of Washington’s naval coalition, which was formed to protect Israel ...
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Can Turkey’s Return to F-35 Program Fill Its Deterrence Void?
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Can Turkey’s Return to F-35 Program Fill Its Deterrence Void?

Monday 8 December 2025 ،
West Asia, and NATO security structure. In the Eastern Mediterranean, Washington supplied Turkey’s historical rival Greece F-35s and boosted its military presence in that country. These measures, if ignoring the balance with Turkey, can produce a sense of strategic insecurity or injustice in ...
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Gaza ‘Peace Board’: From Removing Blair to Kushner’s Personal Interests
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Gaza ‘Peace Board’: From Removing Blair to Kushner’s Personal Interests

Tuesday 9 December 2025 ،
West Asia, amassing significant personal wealth. Kushner now spearheads efforts to plan what are being termed “alternative safe communities.” The plan centers on constructing temporary yet functional villages in an area currently referred to as the “Green Zone”, land in east ...
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The Strategic Enigma in Baku-Abu Dhabi Alliance
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The Strategic Enigma in Baku-Abu Dhabi Alliance

Tuesday 9 December 2025 ،
West Asia. South Caucasus has been one of the new regions with geopolitical significance grabbing Abu Dhabi’s attention. One of the signs of this attention is the boost of the Baku-Abu Dhabi relations, to an extent that in recent months the officials of two countries increased their mutual vi ...
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Trump’s Doctrine: An Analysis of US Hegemonic Decline
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Trump’s Doctrine: An Analysis of US Hegemonic Decline

Wednesday 10 December 2025 ،
West Asia interventions, have pushed this model to a period of demise.  The Trump doctrine was forged precisely at the moment when US's globalist leadership could no longer respond to new realities. Washington was caught between two options: reforming the liberal order to accommodate risin ...
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Iran’s Pezeshkian in Central Asia, Energy and Transit Top on Agenda
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Iran’s Pezeshkian in Central Asia, Energy and Transit Top on Agenda

Thursday 11 December 2025 ،
West's sanctions on Russia that led to blocking of direct Central Asian countries' trade with Europe have made finding alternative routes ghe top priority of the foreign policy of the Central Asian countries.  In this context, Iran, with its distinct geopolitical position, access to la ...
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Signs of Israel Losing Its Strategic Equilibrium
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Signs of Israel Losing Its Strategic Equilibrium

Friday 12 December 2025 ،
West Asia region for decades, now stands exposed: the fragility of a colonial society, its foundational contradictions, and its transition from a phase of managing crises to a phase of manufacturing them. Structural crisis that takes from the government the power to survive Since 2022 and formatio ...
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Iran Opposes External Interference, Calls for Regional Cooperation on Afghanistan
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Iran Opposes External Interference, Calls for Regional Cooperation on Afghanistan

Sunday 14 December 2025 ،
West, and South Asia. He said Afghanistan’s human and natural capacities make its stability a regional necessity. Araghchi argued that past foreign interventions and externally imposed decisions failed to deliver lasting peace, emphasizing that regional, neighbor-led solutions offer greater p ...
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Tehran and Riyadh Going Beyond De-escalation, Now Seeking Common Cooperation Grounds
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Tehran and Riyadh Going Beyond De-escalation, Now Seeking Common Cooperation Grounds

Monday 15 December 2025 ،
West Asia, Iran and Saudi Arabia more than before move towards strengthening bilateral relations and strategic convergence. In this connection, the third joint meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia, accompanied by China, was held on Tuesday in Tehran. The meeting, initiate ...

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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.