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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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Syria Elections: Al-Jolani Introducing Caliphate Rule
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Syria Elections: Al-Jolani Introducing Caliphate Rule

Sunday 5 October 2025
presidential decree (No. 66) that established a higher electoral commission. Nawar Nejmah, a spokesperson for the Syrian electoral committee, stated that the election will be conducted based on a new mechanism designed to ensure broad public participation, so that all Syrian groups can have represe ...
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Turkey’s Iran Sanctions: Why’s Erdogan Shifting to the US?
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Turkey’s Iran Sanctions: Why’s Erdogan Shifting to the US?

Tuesday 7 October 2025 ،
presidential election is a real possibility. Consequently, many analysts and politicians view the newly launched corruption cases against Ekrem İmamoglu and other rival officials as a political maneuver to sideline his challengers. With his domestic position this fragile, Erdogan is now seeking to ...
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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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Inter-Kurdish Stalemate Complicates Filling Iraq President Post
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Inter-Kurdish Stalemate Complicates Filling Iraq President Post

Tuesday 6 January 2026 ،
presidential candidate during talks with the ruling parliamentary faction the SCF.  Following the two meetings, a broader gathering involving senior leaders from both parties is expected to take place in an effort to reach a political consensus and agree on a single candidate to represent the ...
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Election of Amidi As Iraq’s President: PUK Restores Power, Political Dynamics Shift
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Election of Amidi As Iraq’s President: PUK Restores Power, Political Dynamics Shift

Monday 13 April 2026 ،
presidential elections, they could keep the PUK in a deadlock. However, what we have witnessed in recent days is a display of diplomatic prowess and politic that transcends the Kurdistan region’s borders. The PUK transformed the landscape by shifting the battlefield from Erbil to Baghdad. Acc ...
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Alarms Sound about Israel’s Malign Influence in Africa
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Alarms Sound about Israel’s Malign Influence in Africa

Tuesday 21 April 2026 ،
presidential race. There are similar reports about Israeli intelligence push to sway results before 2020 presidential elections in Malawi. Also, Israeli groups on social media have run campaigns of fake news across Africa. In 2015, Israelis tapped emails of an opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhar ...
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios
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Political Storm Heading to Tel Aviv: From Likud Fracture to Election Scenarios

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
presidential pardon at the end of 2025, arguing that continuing the trial is tearing us apart from within. This narrative is amplified relentlessly by his television mouthpiece, Channel 14, which Israeli newspapers have dubbed a poison machine. The channel does not simply cover the trial, but it pr ...
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Behind Closed School Doors: Azerbaijan Govt. Secularism vs. Islamic Identity of Society
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Behind Closed School Doors: Azerbaijan Govt. Secularism vs. Islamic Identity of Society

Sunday 18 October 2026 ،
presidential term limits were abolished and each term extended from five to seven years, and international observers have consistently questioned the freedom of elections there. But the government's repressive policies against Islamic movements, particularly Shiite ones, have intensified in rece ...
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Trump and Peospects of Democratic Win in Midterms
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Trump and Peospects of Democratic Win in Midterms

Tuesday 3 November 2026 ،
presidential veto against congressional legislation. Reacting last week to the prospect of facing a Democratic-controlled Congress, Trump said: What's going to happen is I'm going to veto everything, and then the Democrats are going to come and want to make a deal. From that dimension, Dem ...
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From Vietnam to Iran: White House’s most Notable Defeats in Midterms
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From Vietnam to Iran: White House’s most Notable Defeats in Midterms

Friday 6 November 2026 ،
presidential election with a landslide victory over Republican Barry Goldwater. At the time, the Democratic Party also commanded a substantial majority in Congress. Yet as America's military intervention in Vietnam expanded, the American death toll mounted, the war's costs ballooned and the ...

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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.