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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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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf
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IRGC Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Drills Tells US Who’s the Boss in Persian Gulf

Wednesday 18 February 2026
military drills under watch of the force’s commander General Mohammad Pakpour in the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. These military drills are seen not as a military showoff, but a multi-layer message at domestic, regional and international levels.  Amid escalating tensio ...
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Iran, Russia to Stage Joint Naval Exercise Thursday in The Sea of Oman and Northern Indian Ocean
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Iran, Russia to Stage Joint Naval Exercise Thursday in The Sea of Oman and Northern Indian Ocean

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
military cooperation. The joint Iran–Russia naval drill will be hosted by Iran’s First Naval Region at the southern port of Bandar Abbas, where a Russian helicopter carrier has already docked as part of expanding maritime cooperation. According to exercise spokesperson Hassan Maqsoudlo ...
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Iran Navy Commander Criticizes Extra-Regional Fleets Operating in West Asia
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Iran Navy Commander Criticizes Extra-Regional Fleets Operating in West Asia

Wednesday 18 February 2026 ،
military presence ALWAGHT- Rear Admiral Shahram Irani stresses that Iran is prepared to counter any foreign military presence. Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, commander of Iran’s Army Navy, warned that the presence of extra-regional military fleets in West Asia is “unjustified” and em ...
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What Do we Know about Chinese and Russian Air Bridge to Iran?
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What Do we Know about Chinese and Russian Air Bridge to Iran?

Saturday 21 February 2026 ،
military aggression by the enemy. The media blackout surrounding ongoing preparations for various war scenarios, whether limited and short-term or prolonged and large-scale, relying on air strikes or expanding to naval engagements, ground battles, and urban warfare against armed terrorist cells, sh ...
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Introducing Sayyad-3G, Iran’s Latest Naval Missile
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Introducing Sayyad-3G, Iran’s Latest Naval Missile

Sunday 22 February 2026 ،
military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran test-fired its new Sayyad-3G naval air defense missile ALWAGHT- During military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran test-fired its new Sayyad-3G naval air defense missile, increasing the combat fleet’s air defense coverage to roughly 150 km. ...
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Ulyanov: NATO’s War Preparations Are Underway
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Ulyanov: NATO’s War Preparations Are Underway

Sunday 3 May 2026 ،
military exercises taking place in Finland from May 2 to May 12, 2026—just 70 kilometers from the Russian border along the Karelian section—Ulyanov warned that NATO appears to be actually paving the way for a real war. The drills involve the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, ...
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Shadow of Horror over NATO: Oreshnik Missile Use Sends Message Beyond Ukraine Conflict
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Shadow of Horror over NATO: Oreshnik Missile Use Sends Message Beyond Ukraine Conflict

Thursday 28 May 2026 ،
military attrition imminent, the field developments of the past few weeks show that not only there is no peace in sight, but also the two sides have entered a new stage of confrontation, pushing the conflict to new heights. The turning point of this escalation is Ukraine's attacks on Russian vit ...
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
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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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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
military overhaul, backed by Western training and equipment. Instead, the brigade was hit by a wave of unauthorized absences and outright desertion. A report by Poland's Centre for Eastern Studies noted that in this brigade alone, cases of AWOL were recorded even during overseas training in Fran ...

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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.