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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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PMF, Iraqi Military Launch Coordinated Strike on ISIS Remnants
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PMF, Iraqi Military Launch Coordinated Strike on ISIS Remnants

Monday 16 February 2026
army, launches a major operation in the Nineveh desert targeting ISIS remnants ALWAGHT- Iraq’s PMF, alongside the army, launches a major operation in the Nineveh desert targeting ISIS remnants. The Popular Mobilization Forces launched a large-scale security operation in the Nineveh desert on ...
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Pakistan-Afghanistan Borders Remain Insecure as Bilateral Distrust Dominates
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Pakistan-Afghanistan Borders Remain Insecure as Bilateral Distrust Dominates

Tuesday 24 February 2026 ،
ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) terrorist groups in some border regions of Afghanistan. At least 10 terrorist elements, including militant commander Akhtar Mohammad, were killed in Paktika attack, sources said.  Reports added that Pakistani airstrike targeted a religious seminary. In a separate strike ...
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Iraqi Resistance Groups’ Surprises in War: Aspects and Implications
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Iraqi Resistance Groups’ Surprises in War: Aspects and Implications

Tuesday 17 March 2026 ،
army played a role in these assaults. Last Thursday, as a result of American-Israeli attacks on three bases of the 19th Brigade of the PMF in Al-Qaem border region located in western Iraq, at least 22 Iraqi fighters were martyred and several others were injured. Moreover, intermittent clashes betwe ...
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With His Move against Arms of Resistance Groups, Iraq’s Al-Sadr is Playing in Trump’s Game
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With His Move against Arms of Resistance Groups, Iraq’s Al-Sadr is Playing in Trump’s Game

Sunday 31 May 2026 ،
army structure, becoming the top figure making headlines in Iraq. The decision was given massive addressing in the Iraqi security and political atmosphere, as expected has offered a massive propaganda feed to the forces opposed to the Iraqi resistance groups, once again attacking them, especially th ...
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Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"
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Iraq’s Resistance between Maintaining Arms and Handing Them Over: Will the US Project Pan Out?"

Sunday 7 June 2026 ،
army itself, until nothing is left to defend Iraq. PMF, impenetrable in security and military structure The stances of the resistance leaders of Iraq show that all of them share the opposition to the American-Israeli project to undermine the PMF. They are united in their voice that the PMF is an ...
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Arbaeen Under the Shadow of US Hostilities: What’s Going on in Iraq?
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Arbaeen Under the Shadow of US Hostilities: What’s Going on in Iraq?

Saturday 1 August 2026 ،
army units, federal police, counterterrorism forces, Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) personnel, and intelligence agencies along the main routes to Karbala, Najaf, Baghdad, Babylon, and Diyala. Hundreds of fixed and mobile checkpoints have been set up on roads leading to Karbala to screen for susp ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
army. This approach showed itself in the presented official government plan, where it stresses on reforming security structure, restricting arms to state institutions, and increasing capabilities of the security forces of the country. However, the restriction of arms in Iraq should not be reduced ...
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence

Friday 28 August 2026 ،
army and will not act as an independent force anymore. Abdi acknowledged that his militia had shouldered grave responsibilities during the country’s darkest hours, but said Syria has now entered a phase of peace and shared nation-building. He conceded that the Autonomous Administration of Nor ...
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
army and Saddam Hussein devised a new plan to invade Kuwait, an attack carried out with a green light from Washington, he asserted. There are documents for this, he held.  The former Iranian diplomat in Iraq continued that Imam Khomeini had also predicted that Saddam would turn on the Arabs af ...
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions

Wednesday 7 October 2026 ،
ISIS terrorist organization, which once emerged in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and after its defeat in 2017, it sought other safe havens like Afghanistan.  Those reciprocal charges could ultimately have consequences beyond the two countries’ borders, and the biggest worry is that instability ...

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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.