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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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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 ،
terrorist groups, a path the West previously followed to counter Russian influence in Syria. Generally, though it is too early to talk about rise of a full-scale Russian-Chinese axis in Sahel region, the current developments show that cooperation and coordination of the two powers, at least in the ...
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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 ،
terrorist organization is yet to fully end and the sleeper cells are remaining and their terrorist actions in Iraq are not unlikely. Echoing the developments of 2011, the Iranian diplomat said that odds are the US unleashes to Iraq a new wave of insecurity to Iraq and this cannot be ruled out. Ira ...
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions
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Recent Moscow Format Meeting Heavily Overshadowed by Kabul-Islamabad Tensions

Wednesday 7 October 2026 ،
terrorist movements. Pakistan says Taliban-linked factions of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan operate inside Afghanistan and the Taliban, for its part, accuses Pakistan of supporting ISIS terrorist organization, which once emerged in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and after its defeat in 2017, it sought other ...
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Iran: Deployment of 39,000 Troops Thwarted Planned Ground Invasion
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Iran: Deployment of 39,000 Troops Thwarted Planned Ground Invasion

Monday 12 October 2026 ،
terrorist groups to enter Iranian territory. However, he said the rapid deployment of army and Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) units along the country's borders disrupted that plan. The commander added that, following the 12-Day War in 2025, Iran's armed forces reviewed battlefield l ...
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What Does State of Emergency in Kheyber Pakhtunkhwa Mean?
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What Does State of Emergency in Kheyber Pakhtunkhwa Mean?

Tuesday 13 October 2026 ،
terrorist attacks as its principal justifications for the emergency. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said the government possesses dozens of pieces of evidence against the provincial government, but none have been made public so far. PTI, which has governed the province since 2013, has rejected the ...
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Pakistan, Turkey Unreluctant to Directly Join Yemen War, Syria’s Al-Jolani Risks Sending Forces to Death in Yemen: Expert
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Pakistan, Turkey Unreluctant to Directly Join Yemen War, Syria’s Al-Jolani Risks Sending Forces to Death in Yemen: Expert

Tuesday 13 October 2026 ،
terrorists to Yemen war in return for economic support to Damascus government, though the latter has rejected these reports. Can such a possibility be taken seriously? What would be the fallout? Zarean: Yes, as you said, the Syrian side has rejected this issue, saying that it has no such plan. But ...
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IRGC Frees Kidnapped Engineer, Kills Six Terrorists in Southeastern Iran
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IRGC Frees Kidnapped Engineer, Kills Six Terrorists in Southeastern Iran

Tuesday 13 October 2026 ،
terrorist group ALWAGHT- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ground Force has rescued a kidnapped construction engineer and killed six members of a terrorist group during an operation in southeastern Iran, according to a statement from the force’s Quds Base. The operation to ...
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Three Cases That Brought Pakistan’s Munir to Tehran
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Three Cases That Brought Pakistan’s Munir to Tehran

Wednesday 21 October 2026 ،
terrorist activity along the two countries' shared border in recent weeks, and disruptions to overland trade, particularly the slowdown in goods movement through the Rimdan–Gabd crossing, which had brought trucks to a halt and created traffic at the border. Amid Washington's intensify ...

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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.