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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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Hezbollah’s New Strategy for Managing Potential Tensions with New Syria
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Hezbollah’s New Strategy for Managing Potential Tensions with New Syria

Thursday 6 August 2026
crises whose only beneficiary is Israel. At this moment, Tel Aviv needs regional turbulence more than ever to deflect attention from its own domestic political and security fractures. Many Arab states, after the latest war's hard lessons, have grown more attuned to the new realities of power in ...
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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card
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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card

Friday 7 August 2026 ،
crises in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea have ushered in a new phase of competition among major transit corridors. In recent years, every spike in military tensions across the Persian Gulf or the Bab-el-Mandeb has thrust the vulnerability of global supply chains back into the spotlight. Seen t ...
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
crises. And whether that show translates into action on the ground remains very much in doubt.
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?
Analysis

Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
crises and war in West Asia have eroded the regional countries' trust in the US-formulated security structures and now many regional powers are moving to establish more independent mechanisms of their own to protect security. In fact, Ankara, Islamabad, and Riyadh have decided to define part of ...
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
crises and the ruling majority, Shiite Coordination Framework (SCF), is seeking a way to manage these challenges and prevent escalation of crises through talks with various political factions. In this connection, Odai Abdul Hadi, a member of the SCF, has recently reported the bloc's intention t ...
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Why’s Pentagon Drip-feeding Information on Iran Attacks Damage?
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Why’s Pentagon Drip-feeding Information on Iran Attacks Damage?

Sunday 16 August 2026 ،
crises and sporadic figures form into an understandable narrative for the public opinion. A sudden announcement of the true number of losses can establish the notion that the American military bases in West Asia, just contrary to initial thinking, are not safe against precision missile strikes by Ir ...
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Annexation Will Never Succeed; Israel’s Downfall Is Inevitable
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Annexation Will Never Succeed; Israel’s Downfall Is Inevitable

Wednesday 19 August 2026 ،
crises that will ultimately contribute to its downfall. He argued that the ongoing violence and repression in the West Bank cannot diminish the international significance of the Palestinian cause. He also rejected any prospect of Israeli annexation of Palestinian territories, asserting that such pl ...
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UN to Choose New Chief: Why’s Tel Aviv Worried?
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UN to Choose New Chief: Why’s Tel Aviv Worried?

Sunday 30 August 2026 ،
crises on the Security Council's agenda, mediate between warring parties, sound the alarm on humanitarian catastrophes, and wield the organization's political and media clout to pressure conflicting sides. The secretary-general also plays a central role in running the UN bureaucracy and app ...
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Hormuz Mission, a Two-sided Blade for South Korea
Analysis

Hormuz Mission, a Two-sided Blade for South Korea

Wednesday 9 September 2026 ،
crises more than ever, now caught between American pressure and its own national interests. Trump has already linked the scaling back of joint US-South Korea military drills to Seoul's reluctance to back Washington's Iran policy.  Add to that Trump's recent push to arrange another ...
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation
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Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb: Two Chokepoints, One Equation

Saturday 12 September 2026 ،
crises can become a global one. If only one of these chokepoints is disrupted, the shipping industry can absorb part of the strain by rerouting. But simultaneous disruption at both would constrain the global shipping network’s capacity to adapt. A cost directed to the world economy Rising ri ...

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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.