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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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Yemen Warns Riyadh to Heed Zelensky’s Fate
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Yemen Warns Riyadh to Heed Zelensky’s Fate

Sunday 2 March 2025
banks, will remain safe? He further questioned what assurance Saudis have that the US would not turn its back on them and disavow their actions—just as it did with Ukraine. Farah stressed that if Washington could treat its close allies with such disregard, its approach toward the Arab and Mu ...
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Why’s Tel Aviv Afraid of Second Stage of Gaza Ceasefire?
Analysis

Why’s Tel Aviv Afraid of Second Stage of Gaza Ceasefire?

Saturday 8 March 2025 ،
banks of the Gaza Strip and opposing the exchange of worn-out banknotes.  Why is Tel Aviv concerned about extension of ceasefire?  It is obvious that Netanyahu and other Israeli officials are concerned about entry to the second stage. But why?  Collapse of cabinet: Hardliners in th ...
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Clouds of US Sanctions Back on Lucrative Iran-Iraq Trade: Challenges and Solutions
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Clouds of US Sanctions Back on Lucrative Iran-Iraq Trade: Challenges and Solutions

Monday 10 March 2025 ،
banks in line with the pressure policy that the US Treasury is applying on the Iraqi financial and banking sector. In the meantime, a very important issue is the impact of US political pressure and sanctions on monetary and banking transactions between the two countries, which has caused Iraq to be ...
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Historic Jump in Iran-Iraq Energy Partnership
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Historic Jump in Iran-Iraq Energy Partnership

Saturday 19 April 2025 ،
banks, but each time this demand has not been met due to threats from Washington. For example, in July 2024, the Central Bank of Iraq, under intense pressure from the US Federal Reserve, suspended all foreign transactions with the Chinese yuan. Transactions in yuan wax aimed at freeing Iraq from the ...
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Tensions Again: Crisis between Baghdad and Erbil over Budget Reignites
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Tensions Again: Crisis between Baghdad and Erbil over Budget Reignites

Sunday 8 June 2025 ،
banks is limited, according to available data, the region received loans worth 2.607 trillion Iraqi dinars (around $2 billion) from state and commercial banks between 2023 and April 2025. Therefore, a large part of the region’s external debt is likely to arise from mechanisms such as oil advan ...
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Chaos in Los Angeles as California Rises against White House
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Chaos in Los Angeles as California Rises against White House

Monday 9 June 2025 ،
Protests are taking place in reaction to Trump’s plan to expel foreign immigrants. Alwaght- The US President Donald Trump has recently ordered 2,000 National Guard forces to suppress Los Angeles protests against the administration's immigration plan. At the same time Pete Hegseth put the Marines ...
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Kabul Tripartite Meeting: Taliban’s Decisive Test for Regional Trade Participation
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Kabul Tripartite Meeting: Taliban’s Decisive Test for Regional Trade Participation

Monday 25 August 2025 ،
banks, and the cut of foreign aid. So far this year, the group has eliminated tens of thousands of jobs from its administrative and government structures and cut employee salaries by 20 percent. To ease pressure on society and boost domestic legitimacy, the Taliban need to open new avenues for trad ...
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Barrack’s Insult to Lebanese Journalists Echoes Washington’s Lebanon Policy
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Barrack’s Insult to Lebanese Journalists Echoes Washington’s Lebanon Policy

Friday 29 August 2025 ،
banks to restrict financial flows to Hezbollah and imposing sweeping sanctions on figures close to Hezbollah. A case in point is the recent move by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's government. Despite massive warnings about the severe implications for Lebanon's internal stability and external s ...
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US Redefining its Iraq Military Presence, Full Withdrawal Uncertain: Expert
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US Redefining its Iraq Military Presence, Full Withdrawal Uncertain: Expert

Saturday 6 September 2025 ،
banks and enforcing a dollar-driven financial mechanism, Washington has locked Baghdad into a state of perpetual dependency, turning this reliance into a tool for political and security leverage. Beyond the economic dimension, the US has framed its presence in Iraq as a means of providing direct su ...
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Click, Boom: US Tech Giants’ Hands Stained with Palestinian Blood
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Click, Boom: US Tech Giants’ Hands Stained with Palestinian Blood

Tuesday 9 September 2025 ،
banks. How are reports on Gaza distorted? Confirming large payments of the Israeli regime to the American tech companies, The Guardian reported that these actions are meant to broadly promote the Israeli narrative about Gaza humanitarian crisis and also boosting Israeli promotions on Google to neu ...

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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.