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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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Tel Aviv on Sexual Violence Blacklist: International Laws and Crisis of Israeli Impunity
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Tel Aviv on Sexual Violence Blacklist: International Laws and Crisis of Israeli Impunity

Sunday 31 May 2026
military personnel and the army are not taken.  One of the main reasons the international institutions are unable to make Tel Aviv accountable and punish the Israeli political and military officials is the unwavering US support to this regime especially at the UN Security Council, offering Isr ...
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Strategic Mystery: What’s Driving Al-Sharaa to Keep Russian Military Bases in Syria?
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Strategic Mystery: What’s Driving Al-Sharaa to Keep Russian Military Bases in Syria?

Thursday 4 June 2026 ،
military presence in Syria by sending a ship carrying special equipment to its Khmeimim air base in Syria recently. According to the report, the ship sailed from St. Petersburg in March and docked in Tartus port in May. The deployed fleet included the vessel Sparta, owned by its parent companies, S ...
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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 ،
military gains for government posts, he charged, amounts to national treason. His remarks come as the US has made clear it will veto any role for resistance factions in Iraq's political arrangements. Meanwhile, Nazim al-Saedi, head of al-Nujaba's executive council, insisted that any discuss ...
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Two Clashing Views: Ambiguities of Strait of Hormuz Legal Status Post-War
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Two Clashing Views: Ambiguities of Strait of Hormuz Legal Status Post-War

Sunday 21 June 2026 ،
military obstacles and mine-clearance operations. Iran and Oman will also hold talks on the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz, in accordance with applicable international law and the sovereign rights of the littoral states, and will consult with other Persian Gulf c ...
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From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea
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From Red Sea to Black Sea: Geopolitical Impacts of Ukraine’s Attack on Iran’s Ship in Caspian Sea

Monday 27 July 2026 ،
military cargo linked to Iran. That unsubstantiated claim clashes with reports from Iran's ISNA news agency, which quoted the governor of Gilan province as saying the vessel was carrying an iron shipment en route from the port of Astrakhan to Anzali, a route that for years had served as a secur ...
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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 ،
military coalitions, Saudi Arabia is eyeing a more limited and more cohesive bloc of three states with various capacities. Saudi Arabia with its financial strength, Pakistani with its military and nuclear capacity, and Turkey with its defense industries and operational capabilities fit this bloc. W ...
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Three Missing Iranian Pilots: Is the US Involved?
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Three Missing Iranian Pilots: Is the US Involved?

Tuesday 18 August 2026 ،
military insists they are alive and being held captive by Qatari forces. On Saturday, General Mohammad Bagherzadeh, head of the Armed Forces General Staff’s committee for search of missing personnel, sent a letter to the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross demanding an immedi ...
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?
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Why’s the New US Economic Campaign against Iran a Failure Story?

Wednesday 26 August 2026 ،
military force, he’s now turning to economic sanctions. But this ‘economic exclusion operation’ will not only fail, but it may end up tightening a noose around our own neck, and that noose is the one that’s actually getting drawn tighter.” Complex network of trade base ...
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
Analysis

Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
military and security partners. Meanwhile, China as a country that can meet part of the Arab clients' arms, technology, and security needs more than other choices is attractive to these countries. The AP in a new report about the consequences of Iran war said that the Iranian attacks on the US ...
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean
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Turkey-Israel Face-off in Eastern Mediterranean

Friday 4 September 2026 ،
military coordination, and now shows clear signs of crystallizing into a coherent military alignment in the eastern Mediterranean. It is little wonder, then, that Ankara views such military convergence as a direct threat to its national security and to its position on Northern Cyprus. Turkey conten ...

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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.