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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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Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?
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Ankara and Tel Aviv: Is Syria a Potential Ankara-Tel Aviv Clash Ground?

Saturday 22 August 2026
post-Assad Syria and in addition to participating in rebuilding the devastated infrastructure, it upped its security and military cooperation with Damascus. In August last year, defense ministers of the two neighbors signed a military training and consultation agreement according to which Turkey wi ...
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Twilight of US Hegemony: Decline Felt at Home
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Twilight of US Hegemony: Decline Felt at Home

Monday 24 August 2026 ،
posts and rotating fighter jets through temporary airstrips, rather than relying on sprawling, exposed garrisons. The war has imposed enormous costs on Washington, and now it faces a hefty bill to rebuild those damaged bases. The Enterprise Institute think tank estimates repairs to 11 US facilities ...
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel
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Economic to Military Pressure: Six Options Turkey Wields against Israel

Tuesday 25 August 2026 ،
post-war security architecture. An analysis by the Al Jazeera Center for Studies echoes this view, identifying the struggle as one of the most consequential structural fault lines between the two powers. Israel, the report argues, is deeply unsettled by Turkey's growing influence, its training o ...
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Regional-Palestinian Backing Prevent Hamas Elimination from Gaza Dynamics
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Regional-Palestinian Backing Prevent Hamas Elimination from Gaza Dynamics

Tuesday 25 August 2026 ،
postures of various sides, and reactions after announcing approval of the roadmap to implementation of the second stage of the agreement. Participants at the meeting squarely blamed the Israeli regime for obstructing the cease-fire deal, charging that it has upended implementation by rejecting the ...
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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 ،
Iran has diverse partners and a secret network of trade and business which is hard to target. Alwaght- The Department of Treasury on Monday rolled out under what it called D-Day sanctions a new round of sanctions under a new economic campaign against Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the ...
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining
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Amid Transforming Muslim Political Power in the US, AIPAC is Declining

Thursday 27 August 2026 ،
posts. On August 11, 2026, the Muslim Girl organization, led by Amani, convened a gathering featuring Abdulrahman Al-Sayed, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Dr. Adam Hamwi. The central question on the table was: When will Muslim political presence shift from exception to norm? The panelists did not ...
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence
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Syrian Kurds after SDF Dissolution: Between Integration and Maintaining Influence

Friday 28 August 2026 ،
posture was driven by the shift in the American policy. Washington for years called the SDF its main partner in Syria to meet its interests. However, after al-Assad's fall in December 2024, which tipped the scales of power, the Americans pushed for a deal between the Kurds and Damascus thar will ...
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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 ،
posts in the international system. He can place 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 ce ...
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says
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US Attack on Sirik Wedding Marks “Moral Decline,” Iran Says

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
post on X, he argued that the incident exposed what he described as the reality of Washington’s “illegal war” against Iran. Baghaei said the bombing of the wedding was carried out in what he called a “desperate attempt” to conceal US military failures, contrasting the ...
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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 ،
posture will only heighten concerns in Tel Aviv and among its allies. What is unfolding in Cyprus today is not merely an uptick in military collaboration among a few actors. It is a harbinger of a new security order taking shape in the region, one in which Ankara and Tel Aviv find themselves on inc ...

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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.