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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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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?
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US Forces Withdrawal from Iraq: Why Are Kurds Worried?

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Western military equipment pullouts from the Kurdistan Region: over three days, key US and British defense systems were removed, and the Western military footprint in Erbil shrank dramatically. Local media and non-governmental analysts acknowledge that the bulk of American forces have effectively l ...
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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache
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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache

Thursday 3 September 2026 ،
Western allies. Pull back too hard, and he risks losing his coalition altogether. That dilemma takes on added weight with Netanyahu's political rivals already seizing on settler violence to batter his government. Gadi Eizenkot, a leading opposition figure, recently lashed out on Smotrich and Be ...
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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 ،
Western training and equipment. Instead, the brigade was hit by a wave of unauthorized absences and outright desertion. A report by Poland's Centre for Eastern Studies noted that in this brigade alone, cases of AWOL were recorded even during overseas training in France and Poland. A Financial T ...
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Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff
Analysis

Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff

Wednesday 9 September 2026 ،
Western will to settle the disputes and face the new geopolitical and border realities. Kiev, for its part, has not budged an inch from its own positions, and is banking on continued European and American support to keep fighting and reclaim its territory. Ukraine's air-defense shortfalls and P ...
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case

Monday 14 September 2026 ،
Western countries and brand its perpetrators as terrorists, they maintain a deathly silence before the crimes Western powers commit against other nations. That double standard becomes even starker when the US and the Israeli regime are involved, commmiting crimes that in many cases meet no serious, ...
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?
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Ansarullah and Bab-el-Mandeb: Why’s Israel Rattled by New Geopolitical Reality?

Tuesday 15 September 2026 ،
mediate source of Israeli concern is the economic dimension of the new dynamic. Sea transport is one of the key trade pillars of Tel Aviv and the southern entrance of the Red Sea is crucial to access to the Indian Ocean and Asian markets. The strategic stakes of this route snapped into sharp focus ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
Analysis

Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
media firestorm? Answering that question does not necessarily mean identifying who carried out the attack; it means examining the conditions under which it unfolded. War in a point where the balance is shifting The first background is the field course of Yemen war. In recent weeks, Ansarullah has ...
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Latest on Yemen Conflict: Ansarullah Eyeing Progress to Aden
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Latest on Yemen Conflict: Ansarullah Eyeing Progress to Aden

Monday 21 September 2026 ،
Ansarullah has made major advances in recent weeks and it finds it possible to push further to topple Saudi-backed Aden government. Alwaght- Yemen's Ansarullah advances into the western coastal regions and seizure of Bab-el-Mandeb region have redrawn a major part of Yemen military map, opening t ...
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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 ،
Western Hemisphere, citing Washington’s military actions in Venezuela as a template for a new American posture. Those operations, he said, signal that the U.S. is prepared to wield military force to preempt any threat before it takes shape. Trump then turned his fire on Mexico, branding it a ...
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From Chips to Iran War: Xi-Trump’s Hard Discussions
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From Chips to Iran War: Xi-Trump’s Hard Discussions

Friday 25 September 2026 ،
Western outlets have also reported that China plans to purchase substantial agricultural products from the US.  The US-China chip rivalry has emerged as one of the most critical arenas of technological competition between the two powers, as advanced semiconductors underpin not only artificial ...

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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.