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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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60-day Ceasefire Ends: What Do Western and World Media Say about Trump’s Dilemma?
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60-day Ceasefire Ends: What Do Western and World Media Say about Trump’s Dilemma?

Friday 21 August 2026
searching for an exit from a dead end that military action alone has failed to resolve. And that, precisely, is the point that recent media analyses have converged on.
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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 ،
seat at any table where Gaza's political and security future is decided. Hamas brings extensive experience in running Gaza and confronting the Israeli regime, and without its cooperation, any alternative government would face crippling obstacles. After 38 years of occupation, it was Hamas that ...
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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 ،
seal the routes that allow Tehran to sell oil, move its money around, and bring its earnings back home. He also called on countries and companies doing business with Iran to sever their ties, warning that they would otherwise face secondary sanctions. The latest salvo in the economic war campaign, ...
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Final Tehran-Muscat Mechanism for Strait of Hormuz: US not in Agreement
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Final Tehran-Muscat Mechanism for Strait of Hormuz: US not in Agreement

Wednesday 26 August 2026 ،
sea mines. Official sources in Tehran confirmed that technical talks between the two sides aimed at working out a permanent maritime corridor, discussing future of administration of the strait, establishing a data sharing mechanism, traffic management, and providing maritime and security services wi ...
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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 ،
seated a Muslim—a fact that makes Al-Sayed’s potential victory in the November 2026 midterms all the more historic. Should he win, he would become the first Muslim senator since the nation’s founding 250 years ago. And that, observers say, is only the tip of the iceberg. First: Si ...
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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 ،
seat in parliament. The Syrian government and the SDF had already reached a framework understanding last January on a phased integration of their military and administrative structures. That agreement included the withdrawal of both sides’ forces from contact zones, the deployment of Interior ...
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Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?
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Iran at Eurasia’s Heart: How’s SCO Helping Tehran Cushion American Sanctions?

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
seat at the table in the SCO's decision-making machinery. From security organization to economic bloc The SCO is no NATO, yet. There is no collective defense clause, no guarantee that an attack on one is an attack on all. Still, security remains a core pillar. Counterterrorism, counter-extremi ...
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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache
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Radical Settlers: Netanyahu’s Yesterday Allies, Today’s Headache

Thursday 3 September 2026 ،
seat to preserve his right-wing parliamentary majority. Actually, Netanyahu can not completely ditch the extremist settlers without losing a critical chunk of the religious-right base. But he also ca not defend their actions unconditionally, because settler violence has now become a primary driver ...
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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 ،
sea military base in Kyrenia are targets for a potential Israeli strike, especially as Turkey may decide deploy warship to this region.  On the other side, Israel's state broadcaster Kan reported last week, citing unnamed sources, that Turkish warships had approached Israeli naval vessels ...
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further
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Ukraine Army Desertions Crisis Squeezes Kiev Further

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
seas training in France and Poland. A Financial Times investigation in December 2024, citing a Polish security official, found that, on average, roughly 12 Ukrainian soldiers went missing or fled each month during military drills in Poland. That data, covering 2024, underscores a grim reality: even ...

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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.