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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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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card
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Competition of Corridors Amid Hormuz Crisis: Moscow and Tehran’s Winning Card

Friday 7 August 2026
regional security flare-ups. Moscow, therefore, is pushing to develop an overland alternative, one that would minimize its dependence on these two geopolitical bottlenecks. Obstacles still standing Despite the advances made, the INSTC is yet to go fully operational. According to Gulf Research Cent ...
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
regional and global media, has been framed by analysts as Riyadh's bid to forge a new security framework with two major powers of the Muslim world. Though official details have yet to be released, the central question remains here: Will Saudi Arabia this time succeed in filling its security vacu ...
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
regional countries' trust in the US-formulated security structures and now many regional powers are moving to establish more independent mechanisms of their own to protect security. In fact, Ankara, Islamabad, and Riyadh have decided to define part of their security within the framework of a de ...
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty
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Iraq’s Marathon to Break Out of Cabinet Posts Uncertainty

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
regional tensions, is facing an array of political, security, and economic crises and the ruling majority, Shiite Coordination Framework (SCF), is seeking a way to manage these challenges and prevent escalation of crises through talks with various political factions. In this connection, Odai Abdul ...
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Iran FM Spox: Israel Is Region’s ‘Greatest Security Threat’
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Iran FM Spox: Israel Is Region’s ‘Greatest Security Threat’

Monday 10 August 2026 ،
regional stability ALWAGHT- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Israeli regime poses the greatest threat to regional stability, security and cooperation among countries in the region. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said regional countries should strengthen their security ...
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
security situation is getting tense as the end of September ultimatum for the armed groups to disarm draws closer. However, the issue of disarming the armed groups in Iraq should not be seen as a security decision or implementation of an article of the national constitution. If the government of Pr ...
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End
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Hormuz not to Reopen until Assassination, Blockade, and War End

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
regional security equations enter a new stage. From Tehran's conditions to normalize the transit status in the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait developments to the rise of new defense coalitions all bear witness to a transformation in the security balance post-war. In this regard, Al ...
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US Aggression Against Iran Behind Hormuz Insecurity
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US Aggression Against Iran Behind Hormuz Insecurity

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
regional and international issues with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in a phone call. He also briefed Wadephul on ongoing consultations with Oman to establish a safe maritime route through the Strait of Hormuz. Araghchi said insecurity in the strait was caused by US and Israeli military a ...
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story
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Mecca Agreement Could Suggest US-designed Regional Order a Failure Story

Wednesday 12 August 2026 ،
regional states fading away. Alwaght- Signing the trilateral defense pact by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey is not just making a military alliance, rather, it can signal rise of a new security formation in West Asia that at the end of the road would seriously challenge the US and Israeli regime& ...
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups
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Iraq’s Weapons Restriction: A Project with Aspects beyond Simply Disarming Resistance Groups

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
security and political agenda, an approach that on the surface may seem to be aimed at ending armed activities outside the umbrella of the official institutions, but its real aspects go beyond the issue of arms of the resistance groups and even the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). What over the p ...

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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.