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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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Dozens of Al-Nusra Terrorists Killed in Syrian Army’s Retaliatory Strike
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Dozens of Al-Nusra Terrorists Killed in Syrian Army’s Retaliatory Strike

Monday 7 November 2022
al-Nusra Front terrorists in a strike conducted in retaliation for the murder of five soldiers Alwaght- Syrian government forces have killed dozens of al-Nusra Front terrorists in a strike conducted in retaliation for the murder of five soldiers. Russia’s Tass news agency on Sunday quoted Ole ...
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Chemical Weapons Probes Can Expose Western Plots against Syria
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Chemical Weapons Probes Can Expose Western Plots against Syria

Wednesday 7 December 2022 ،
Front terrorist group against the Syrian army and asserted that the terrorist group is planning to use toxic substances against civilians and accuse the Syrian army in a false flag attack. This is while the West and the UN, which in the past supported the foreign and moderate opponents, tried to for ...
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What’s Behind Saudi Security Agreement with Morocco?
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What’s Behind Saudi Security Agreement with Morocco?

Saturday 28 January 2023 ،
Front that killed thousands of people; rather, any group that moves against the Saudi policies is labeled terrorist. This time, the Saudis have picked Morocco to realize their goal of checking MB power gain in this North African country.  Moroccan government, on the other hand, signed this agr ...
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Tahrir Al-Sham Terrorist Group Re-branding for Closeness to the West
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Tahrir Al-Sham Terrorist Group Re-branding for Closeness to the West

Wednesday 31 May 2023 ،
Front’s leaders in Idlib suburbs and the US President Joe Biden ordered revival and strengthening of this takfiri group. Washington even promised it will eliminate the group's name from the terror blacklist and recognize it as “moderate” opposition to allow it play the role of ...
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HTS Secret Contacts with Coalition: Will Idlib-based Terror Group Get US as New Boss?
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HTS Secret Contacts with Coalition: Will Idlib-based Terror Group Get US as New Boss?

Monday 21 August 2023 ،
al-Nusra, from whose ashes HTS rose, on its terror blacklist, but in the last two years, it has tried to use the power of terrorists to achieve its goals in Syria by getting close to the group's leaders.  In April 2021, James Jeffrey, the former special US envoy to the international coalit ...
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Defenders of the Shrine: Rise of Anti-terror Fighters in Syria
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Defenders of the Shrine: Rise of Anti-terror Fighters in Syria

Sunday 30 June 2024 ،
Front, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, in May 2013 exhumed the tomb of prominent seventh century Shiite commander Hujr Ibn Adi and threatened to destroy the shrine of Hazrat Zaynab, the daughter of the first Shiite Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, in Damascus. As the terrorism war unfolded, the shrines of Sh ...
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Syrian Army Redeploys in Daraa and Sweida, Regaining Control of Homs and Hama
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Syrian Army Redeploys in Daraa and Sweida, Regaining Control of Homs and Hama

Saturday 7 December 2024 ،
al-Nusra Front fighters have been killed in recent clashes. On Friday, the Syrian Army conducted a special operation in northern Homs, killing dozens of militants and causing widespread panic. A military source denied claims of a Syrian Army withdrawal from the Homs region.
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Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?
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Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?

Sunday 8 December 2024 ،
al-Nusra Front to Fatah Al-Sham in the same month (July 2016). In 2015, he announced that he did not intend to carry out attacks against the West like ISIS or Al-Qaeda. He said that when he left Al-Qaeda, he did so “to remove the excuses for the international community” to attack his or ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Saturday 14 December 2024 ،
Front in Aleppo and was responsible for the organization's public relations, defected from the group and fled to areas under Turkish control. After his escape, Zakour made several serious accusations against al-Jolani, claiming that the group's leader was involved in the August 2016 bombing ...
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Absorption of Foreign Militants to New Syrian Army, US’s Ticking Bomb for Region
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Absorption of Foreign Militants to New Syrian Army, US’s Ticking Bomb for Region

Saturday 7 June 2025 ،
Front, and extremist organizations. This report sheds light on the security repercussions of this decision and the US aims behind it. Foreign militants in Syria: Figures and records  The issue of the presence of foreign militants in Syria dates back to the beginning of the civil war in 2011 a ...

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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.