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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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Bab-el-Mandeb Under Siege: Saudi Yemen Blockade Turns against Riyadh
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Bab-el-Mandeb Under Siege: Saudi Yemen Blockade Turns against Riyadh

Saturday 25 July 2026
kingdom. Alwaght- Nearly twelve years have gone since the Saudi-led Arab-Western coalition imposed a brutal, all-encompassing siege on Yemen, sealing its ports and airports to all essential goods. But now things have changed. Ansarullah resistance movement, which for years bore the brunt of a land, ...
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On a Shaky Ground: Where Will Newly-inked US-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Head?
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On a Shaky Ground: Where Will Newly-inked US-Saudi Nuclear Agreement Head?

Sunday 26 July 2026 ،
kingdom. He tied implementing the agreement to Riyadh joining the Arab-Israeli normalization, officially called Abraham Accords. He also denied that Washington gave the Arab kingdom the right to develop its own local uranium enrichment program, a standing that not only raised questions about terms o ...
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Saudi Oil Shipments Drop 40% at Red Sea Port Amid Yemen Blockade Measures
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Saudi Oil Shipments Drop 40% at Red Sea Port Amid Yemen Blockade Measures

Tuesday 28 July 2026 ،
kingdom ALWAGHT- Saudi crude oil loading at the Red Sea port of Yanbu has declined by 40 percent since Yemen imposed a blockade on the kingdom in response to Saudi-led military actions and years of restrictions on Yemen. Maritime intelligence firm Windward reported that Yemen’s blockade of Sa ...
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Shadow of Missiles Back on Saudi Oil Empire
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Shadow of Missiles Back on Saudi Oil Empire

Wednesday 29 July 2026 ،
kingdom has roughly 3.3 million barrels a day of refining capacity, clustered in just four main hubs. If Ansarallah can strike multiple nodes of that network simultaneously while sustaining its Red Sea maritime blockade, the pressure on Saudi energy exports and the broader economy would escalate wel ...
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?
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Saudi Arabia’s Vicious Circle of Coalition-Making: What Does Past Experience Tell Riyadh?

Sunday 2 August 2026 ،
king. Saudi Defense Ministry said on Thursday that it hosted a meeting of over 40 countries. The ministry said that the participants discussed a draft deal for a multinational maritime defense coalition to enhance cooperation and commonly counter threats in the Bab-el-Mandeb, Red Sea, sbd the Gulf ...
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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 ،
king Mecca as the venue for the deal is not accidental or ceremonial. Riyadh tries to sell this initiative not just as a security deal but a sign of convergence of the most important Sunni powers. In such a narrative, confrontation with Sana'a and Tehran shifts from a geopolitical dispute with r ...
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
king Arab governments. Yet the strategic closeness between Cairo and Riyadh does not mean their geopolitical calculations are identical. And that, precisely, is where the real story lies: in the divergence of interests. On major files like Yemen and Palestine in recent years, Egypt and Saudi Arabia ...
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
king more creative and challenging solutions. Likud infighting The party court of Likud is expected to issue its rulings on the contentious issues shaping the party's primary elections. This is not a formal judicial body but an internal committee of retired judges and senior lawyers who are pa ...
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story

Wednesday 12 August 2026 ،
king a military alliance, rather, it can signal rise of a new security formation in West Asia that at the end of the road would seriously challenge the US and Israeli regime's interests and lofty ambitions.  Signed last week by leaders of the three countries in Mecca, the pact rests on the ...
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Yemen War’s New Rules: Saudi Sticks to Old Playbook
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Yemen War’s New Rules: Saudi Sticks to Old Playbook

Monday 17 August 2026 ،
king, indicate the kingdom's play with the old pieces. This is while the game theater has changed in Yemen and now the main issue is no longer who wins, but who dictates the new rules of engagement. After years of costly conflict, Saudi rulers have come to conclusion that return to a full-scale ...

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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.