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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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Iran Security Forces Intercept Arms Shipment in Northwestern Region
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Iran Security Forces Intercept Arms Shipment in Northwestern Region

Sunday 6 September 2026
terrorist separatist groups. The IRGC’s Hamzah Sayyid al-Shuhada Base said its intelligence forces had seized a shipment of weapons and ammunition near the border of Oshnavieh County in West Azerbaijan Province. According to the statement, the shipment included six AK-47 rifles, 28 magazines ...
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift
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US Play with Withdrawal Card: Retreat from Iraq under Banner of Strategy Shift

Sunday 6 September 2026 ،
terrorist organization. Since then, despite repeated Iraqi demands to end the US military presence and agreements with previous Baghdad governments, American forces have stayed, with Washington finding fresh justifications to dig in. That track record leads analysts to doubt that Washington will ev ...
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UAE-Algeria Rift Is Beyond a Diplomatic Gap
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UAE-Algeria Rift Is Beyond a Diplomatic Gap

Saturday 12 September 2026 ،
terrorist organization. Algerian officials see any support for or engagement with the movement as direct interference in the country's internal affairs and a threat to its territorial integrity. The Kabyle file has thus become one of the deepest sources of mistrust between Algiers and Abu Dhabi ...
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case
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Lamerd Attack: An Atrocity that Adds to the US Crimes Case

Monday 14 September 2026 ،
terrorists, they maintain a deathly silence before the crimes Western powers commit against other nations. That double standard becomes even starker when the US and the Israeli regime are involved, commmiting crimes that in many cases meet no serious, deterrent response from the international commu ...
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Iranian Cleric Assassination: Marks of Israeli-American Plot
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Iranian Cleric Assassination: Marks of Israeli-American Plot

Wednesday 16 September 2026 ،
terrorist groups waging both indiscriminate and at times targeted assassinations in a bid to sow insecurity and open a new security front against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Time and again, these mercenary groups have stormed police outposts, government offices and patrol units, or launched blind ...
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Africa: Iran’s Strategic Opportunity to Break the Barriers
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Africa: Iran’s Strategic Opportunity to Break the Barriers

Monday 21 September 2026 ،
terrorism, or weak air power. It is worth noting that the significance of this for Iran is not purely economic. Defense equipment can serve as a starting point for broader cooperation, from training and maintenance to intelligence-sharing, border security, and technology transfer. Indeed, if Tehran ...
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation
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Fate of Washington-Erbil Security Pact: The Trump-Kurds Equation

Saturday 26 September 2026 ،
terrorist networks in Syria and Iraq, or fall into the hands of the PKK, which Washington designates a terrorist organization. Trump, who has consistently spoken of a decisive withdrawal from Syria, has seized on that scenario as justification for scaling back or cutting off weapons support. Taken ...
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Syriafication of Sahel Region: Powers Wrestling to Redefine Strategic Foothold
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Syriafication of Sahel Region: Powers Wrestling to Redefine Strategic Foothold

Tuesday 29 September 2026 ،
terrorism, and weak military institutions. That is precisely what has let Moscow gain ground faster amid the security vacuum left by France's exit and the West's shrinking presence. Moscow has also moved to transfer Russian military equipment, weapons, and hardware to Madagascar, BMP-3 armor ...
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert
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US Military Withdrawal not End of US Iraq Presence, Iran Needs Long-term Iraq Strategy: Expert

Saturday 3 October 2026 ،
terrorist organization. After this return, the religious authority in Iraq through a fatwa of jihad paved the way for formation of Public Mobilization Forces (PMF), or Hashd al-Shabi in Arabic. The force obliterated ISIS terrorists thanks to this fatwa, serious assistance of Iran and under command o ...
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq
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US Ouster from Iraq Prelude to Its Expulsion from the Region: Former Iranian Amb. to Iraq

Monday 5 October 2026 ،
terrorism played an unmatched role in this accomplishment.  All of Iraqis, Kazemi Qomi said, were against occupation and this expulsion was a fruit of a social demand of the whole Iraqi people and it is not just about a specific group or faction.  Additionally, he maintained that to get ...

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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.