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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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60-day Ceasefire Ends: What Do Western and World Media Say about Trump’s Dilemma?
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60-day Ceasefire Ends: What Do Western and World Media Say about Trump’s Dilemma?

Friday 21 August 2026
carry significant consequences in the midterm elections. European concerns Beyond US media, other Western outlets broadly concur that Washington has hit a dead end in its conflict with Iran, and that neither military nor economic pressure has forced Tehran to back down. Reuters reported that with ...
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What’s the Strategic Significance of Lebanon’s Ali Taher Heights?
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What’s the Strategic Significance of Lebanon’s Ali Taher Heights?

Monday 24 August 2026 ،
carrying its own steep costs in troops, time, and material. Therefore, even if Israelis manage to push toward Ali al-Taher in a given operational phase, or seize portions of it, the decisive question remains: can it sustain that gain against counteroperations and relentless pressure? Political asp ...
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel

Tuesday 25 August 2026 ،
carries significant weight. The Turkey-Israel rift in Syria is not fundamentally about a single military base, rather, it is about who will shape Syria's post-war security architecture. An analysis by the Al Jazeera Center for Studies echoes this view, identifying the struggle as one of the most ...
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Resistance Foils Israeli Special Forces Operation in Gaza City After Detecting Infiltration
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Resistance Foils Israeli Special Forces Operation in Gaza City After Detecting Infiltration

Tuesday 1 September 2026 ،
carried out excavation work near the Beit Lahia sports club in northern Gaza.
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
carried out in what he called a “desperate attempt” to conceal US military failures, contrasting the attack with what he described as AI-generated footage portraying American officials as “moral and victorious heroes.” He also invoked American author Tim O’Brien’ ...
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Bombing of Weddings, the US’s Fixed Pattern of Crimes in the Region
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Bombing of Weddings, the US’s Fixed Pattern of Crimes in the Region

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
carrying 50 to 60 people en route to a wedding. Human Rights Watch, after investigating the strike, confirmed at least 12 men dead and at least 15 wounded. The bride herself was among the injured. Chain of crimes continues The US military's track record across West Asia and Afghanistan is stai ...
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Netanyahu Escapes Foward in Lebanon, Time and Equations in Favor of Axis of Resistance: Expert
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Netanyahu Escapes Foward in Lebanon, Time and Equations in Favor of Axis of Resistance: Expert

Monday 7 September 2026 ،
carry out attacks and the capability to change the political and security equations. Fronts are interconnected Future developments in the region cannot be examined separately on each front. What happens in Iran can affect the equations in Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq, and developments on each of these ...
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Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff
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Failed Witkoff-Kushner Mission: Ukraine War in Diplomatic Standoff

Wednesday 9 September 2026 ،
carve out safe space for diplomacy. But taken alone, it hardly signals a strategic shift in Moscow. Putin has stuck to his prior demands, and the Kremlin has made plain that no concrete preconditions for a peace deal are yet in place. That distinction matters. A temporary ceasefire is a far cry fro ...
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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 ،
cars months after the attacks ended, every corner of them telling a story of the aggressors' brutality. Lamerd, in Fars province of Iran, is one of them. On the first day of 40-day war on Iran on February 28, it was hit by banned American ammunitions, and despite Washington's claims, civili ...
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Ali Al-Taher Capture Toll a Hyperbole, Hezbollah in Proper Conditions: Analyst
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Ali Al-Taher Capture Toll a Hyperbole, Hezbollah in Proper Conditions: Analyst

Wednesday 16 September 2026 ،
carried out Operation Nasr against the occupied territories, targeting Israeli positions with missile strikes. This missile operation created deterrence, and that deterrence has held to this day. He added that since June 7, the Israeli regime has not carried out a single attack on the southern Dahi ...

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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.