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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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Gaza War, an Artery for Netanyahu’s Political Life
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Gaza War, an Artery for Netanyahu’s Political Life

Monday 25 August 2025
postponed for several weeks in order for the mediators to get a new chance to revive the ceasefire talks. This comes while the Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz on Sunday warned that Gaza campaign will continue, a stance that has sparked outcry at home and abroad. He had earlier warned that if H ...
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Shadow of Collapse on Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
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Shadow of Collapse on Iraq’s Kurdistan Region

Wednesday 27 August 2025 ،
postponed for years and the region effectively split into two spheres of power. In April 2021, the PUK even floated the idea of establishing a separate Sulaymaniyah administration in protest against what it sees as the KDP’s domination over both political power and economic resources in Kurdis ...
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Iran FM Stresses IAEA Inspectors’ Entry Doesn’t Signify Complete Cooperation
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Iran FM Stresses IAEA Inspectors’ Entry Doesn’t Signify Complete Cooperation

Wednesday 27 August 2025 ،
postponed their decision until August 31. Iran has steadily reduced its cooperation with the IAEA since the US withdrawal from the JCPOA in 2018 and Europe’s failure to compensate for it, deepening the standoff over its nuclear program.
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National Day Against Terrorism: 44 Years Since MKO Bombing
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National Day Against Terrorism: 44 Years Since MKO Bombing

Saturday 30 August 2025 ،
post-revolution government. They, along with other victims, were later buried at Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran. The August 30 attack followed a string of MKO bombings in 1981, including the Hafte Tir massacre that killed Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Beheshti and dozens of officials, as well as an ...
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US Redefining its Iraq Military Presence, Full Withdrawal Uncertain: Expert
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US Redefining its Iraq Military Presence, Full Withdrawal Uncertain: Expert

Saturday 6 September 2025 ،
posts. 3. Post-2026: From our perspective, the most likely scenario is that instead of a complete withdrawal, the US will seek to maintain a footprint in Iraq, whether through a limited number of military advisors, by leveraging its financial dominance, or via security coordination with the Israeli ...
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Syria’s Post-Assad Economy: Dim Prospects Despite Alluring Promises
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Syria’s Post-Assad Economy: Dim Prospects Despite Alluring Promises

Sunday 7 September 2025 ،
Syria’s battered economy is suffering as the government is cutting subsidies and the political stability outlook is uncertain. Alwaght- While after the fall of the government of Bashar al-Assad the hope of some Syrians for economic improvement was high, Syria began to grapple with extensive challeng ...
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Israeli War on Gaza Towers: Display of Destruction, Cover for Losses
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Israeli War on Gaza Towers: Display of Destruction, Cover for Losses

Sunday 7 September 2025 ،
The Israeli occupation has resorted to destroying the high-rise buildings in Gaza as it failed to defeat Hamas in ground battles. Alwaght- On the eve of the end of the second year of the Gaza war, the Israeli regime is pursuing a a broader strategy to turn the coastal enclave into an uninhabitable p ...
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From Defense to War: Why’s Trump Renamed Pentagon?
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From Defense to War: Why’s Trump Renamed Pentagon?

Monday 8 September 2025 ،
posture. This rhetoric comes against the backdrop of an armed forces with a well-documented and deeply violent record in modern warfare. In just the first two decades of the 21st century, the US military's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civi ...
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Click, Boom: US Tech Giants’ Hands Stained with Palestinian Blood
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Click, Boom: US Tech Giants’ Hands Stained with Palestinian Blood

Tuesday 9 September 2025 ،
US technology companies provide AI and other services helping Israel kill more Palestinians for lower costs in Gaza war. Alwaght- Though war on Gaza is waged using modern military equipment and weapons, behind this large-scale barbarous war stand tens of American tech and computer giants that provid ...
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Gaza or Normalization? What’s the Current Arab Issue?
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Gaza or Normalization? What’s the Current Arab Issue?

Tuesday 9 September 2025 ،
post-colonial era, one marked by uncontested Israeli dominance. To achieve this objective, Tel Aviv is pressuring regional nations to continue down the path of normalization. Normalization strategies  According to a research report by Mohammad Al-Manshawi, an Arab researcher for Al Jazeera, t ...

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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.