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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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Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?
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Who’s Al-Jolani and What’s His Role in Syria Future?

Sunday 8 December 2024
secret meetings in the suburbs of Damascus. Al-Jolani was captured by US forces in Iraq in 2006 and held for five years. He later took on the task of establishing Al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, the Al-Nusra Front, and increased its influence in areas controlled by the terrorists, especially Idlib. ...
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Leader Designates Naim Qassem as His Representative in Lebanon
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Leader Designates Naim Qassem as His Representative in Lebanon

Wednesday 5 February 2025 ،
ties with Iran and guiding the group’s political and military strategies. His tenure as the Leader’s representative reflected the deep ideological and strategic alignment between Tehran and Hezbollah. Sheikh Naim Qassem’s appointment suggests a continuation of this strong alliance ...
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Islamic Revolution: Inspiring Resistance from the Mediterranean to Bab-el-Mandeb
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Islamic Revolution: Inspiring Resistance from the Mediterranean to Bab-el-Mandeb

Saturday 8 February 2025 ،
ties to the leaders of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, which played an important role in the formation and development of Hezbollah. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the late Secretary General of Hezbollah, traveled to Iran for the first time in 1981 or 1982 and met with Imam Khomeini. In 1986, he and othe ...
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What’s Trump Seeking behind Pressure on Taliban?
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What’s Trump Seeking behind Pressure on Taliban?

Friday 7 February 2025 ،
ties in Afghanistan. The Taliban also seem pleased with this attention. DW news network reported that last year Chinese President Xi Jinping accepted credentials of the Taliban ambassador as the first foreign leader doing so and later last summer, China became the first country to name an ambassador ...
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Iran’s Top Security Official Pledges Full Support for Iraq in Meeting with Hashd al-Sha’abi Chief
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Iran’s Top Security Official Pledges Full Support for Iraq in Meeting with Hashd al-Sha’abi Chief

Tuesday 18 February 2025 ،
secret arms supplies. Following the fall of Assad’s government, armed groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), captured Damascus, enabling Israel to seize the buffer zone near the occupied Golan Heights. Israeli forces have since advanced deeper into Syria, conducting hundreds of airstrikes ...
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Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?
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Amid Re-emerging Gaps with US, What Are European Options against Trump?

Thursday 20 February 2025 ،
ties. For more than 75 years, NATO and the United States have provided Europe with security. Today, however, the new US president may withdraw from these guarantees and leave Europe on its own. Trump has openly criticized NATO as a trans-Atlantic alliance and has repeatedly argued that European coun ...
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How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?
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How’s Ukraine Becoming Pawn for Trump’s Big Game?

Sunday 2 March 2025 ،
secret meeting of the American and Russian delegations 1,000 kilometers away in Saudi Arabia and the agreement to de-escalate made them fully aware of the risk of facing a new moment of Yalta, where a few months before the end of the WWII, the leaders of the US, the Soviet Union, and Britain in the ...
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Ukraine and the US Hold Crucial Meeting in Saudi Arabia
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Ukraine and the US Hold Crucial Meeting in Saudi Arabia

Tuesday 11 March 2025 ،
ties between Kyiv and Washington following a tense exchange between Zelensky and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Feb. 28. Zelensky visited Saudi Arabia on March 10 to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman but will not take part in the talks with US officials.
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Homeland Security Detains Another Pro-Palestinian Protester from Columbia University
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Homeland Security Detains Another Pro-Palestinian Protester from Columbia University

Saturday 15 March 2025 ،
ties to Hamas. The Trump administration has taken a hardline stance against pro-Palestinian activism, with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem labeling Columbia students involved in protests as terrorist sympathizers. President Trump praised Khalil’s arrest and announced the cancellation of $400 millio ...
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran
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Iraq’s PMF in Trump’s Game with Iran

Tuesday 1 April 2025 ،
secretly travel to visit the country's military base in Iraq, he considered it a sign of humiliation for the US, saying that spending over $7 billion since invasion of Iraq in 2003 has failed to secure the American interests. The US initially took advantage of ISIS rise in Syria and Iraq to jus ...

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Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution

Another epic from the Iranian people on the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution