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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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Historical Roots of Hezbollah Arming
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Historical Roots of Hezbollah Arming

Tuesday 12 August 2025
Hezbollah was founded and armed in response to factors that remain to date like Israeli aggression. Alwaght- These days, the US and its allies are pushing hard to disarm Lebanon's Hezbollah in order to ensure security of the Israeli regime from the north. But they should know that this popular r ...
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Turkey’s Strategic Concerns about Israeli Threats: Scenarios Ahead
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Turkey’s Strategic Concerns about Israeli Threats: Scenarios Ahead

Tuesday 16 September 2025 ،
president to warn Tel Aviv about a heavy price for any covert operations on Turkish territory. The role of external actors: The response of the US and NATO in the event of a direct confrontation between two of their allies remains a key unknown variable. The experience of Qatar demonstrates that ev ...
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Syria Elections: Al-Jolani Introducing Caliphate Rule
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Syria Elections: Al-Jolani Introducing Caliphate Rule

Sunday 5 October 2025 ،
president, Ahmad al-Shara (also known by his nom de guerre as Abu Muhammad al-Jolani), will directly appoint 70 additional parliamentary seats. This move will expand the assembly to 210 members. The new electoral system, based on a model of representation, grants voting rights exclusively to a body ...
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What’s behind Al-Sharaa’s Moscow Visit?
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What’s behind Al-Sharaa’s Moscow Visit?

Thursday 16 October 2025 ،
president is resorting to Russia as Syria is facing security challenges. But there are questions about success of his agenda in Moscow. Alwaght- Syrian Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa who has been paying foreign visits in a bid to strengthen his new rule base has now embarked on a friendship with ...
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What’s behind Trump Naming ’Special Envoy’ to Iraq?
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What’s behind Trump Naming ’Special Envoy’ to Iraq?

Tuesday 21 October 2025 ،
Trump seeks to sway Iraq’s policies to align them with Washington’s regional agenda and for deeper influence in Baghdad. Alwaght- The US President Donald Trump who is seeking new objectives in West Asia and is trying to reshape this region based on the Israeli interests has new plans for countries u ...
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Turkey’s Dream for Mystery of Post-war Regional Order
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Turkey’s Dream for Mystery of Post-war Regional Order

Tuesday 28 October 2025 ،
president's tour came as West Asia is grappling with humanitarian, political, and security crises emanating from Gaza war. Since the start of the war having been critical of the Israeli regime's crimes and even risking a confrontation with Tel Aviv in Syria after fall of President Bashar al- ...
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What’s Driving US Military Base Project in Damascus?
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What’s Driving US Military Base Project in Damascus?

Sunday 9 November 2025 ،
presidential term several times stressed the need to withdraw the US forces from Syria, the rise to power of the militant groups has totally shifted Washington's policies. Now not only the exit plan is put off the agenda, but also the Americans are showing signs of willingness to expand their mi ...
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Will Belated Russian Help Save Al-Jolani?
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Will Belated Russian Help Save Al-Jolani?

Sunday 23 November 2025 ،
president has his eyes on the Russian presence, hoping that it will establish a kind of balance in the face of the Israeli enemy. This approach rests on the past experience, when the Russian military forces in the south managed to de-escalate the tensions. This expectation comes as security negotia ...
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Protests against Al-Jolani’s Govt. Boil Over in Syria after a Year of Suppressive Rule
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Protests against Al-Jolani’s Govt. Boil Over in Syria after a Year of Suppressive Rule

Wednesday 26 November 2025 ،
presidential term, the staging of sham parliamentary elections, and a year marked by escalating protests and instability all point to a failed transition. Even US officials, despite their initial satisfaction with the post-Assad power shift to terrorists in Syria, lacked strategic confidence in al- ...
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Syria a Year after al-Assad Fall
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Syria a Year after al-Assad Fall

Friday 12 December 2025 ،
president, while the recent parliamentary elections were arranged in a largely ceremonial way without people voting to elect their representatives. The al-Sharaa-influenced committee selected two-third of the members of parliament and the interim president himself appointed the remaining one-third o ...

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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.