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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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Bab-el-Mandeb Under Siege: Saudi Yemen Blockade Turns against Riyadh
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Bab-el-Mandeb Under Siege: Saudi Yemen Blockade Turns against Riyadh

Saturday 25 July 2026
war against Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed. Riyadh has been forced to reroute the bulk of its oil exports through an alternative: the East-West Pipeline, known as Petroline, to the Red Sea port of Yanbu. Exports from Yanbu, which before the Iran war stood at about 973,000 bar ...
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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 ،
war. So if armed groups resist, the most probable government strategy is not a sudden, massive offensive, but a gradual erosion of their capacity: first negotiation, then legal and financial pressure, followed by intelligence and security sieges, and finally, calibrated military action. This seque ...
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance
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Trump Turkey Escape Scandal: New Life under Shadow of Vengeance

Saturday 15 August 2026 ،
warfare, the development was a gift to Iran. It reinforced the narrative that the Islamic Republic is serious in following revenge, so much so that it forced the most senior American official to take extraordinary security measures. Iran, as it has shown in recent confrontations to have the capabili ...
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Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?
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Renewed US-Iran Confrontation: Is the White House Prepared for War?

Wednesday 2 September 2026 ،
war. Alwaght- Following US strike on positions in Iran’s Larak Island, Iran’s armed forces fired back with a missile attack on US targets in Jordan. At the same time, Tehran announced that ships and tankers in the Persian Gulf were now in its crosshairs. Tension and the specter of confro ...
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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 ،
ward settlers. Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israeli regime, has labeled some extremist settlers terrorists, a move that has only intensified political pressure on Netanyahu's cabinet. At the same time, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands have all issued warnings ...
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Bombing of Weddings, the US’s Fixed Pattern of Crimes in the Region
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Bombing of Weddings, the US’s Fixed Pattern of Crimes in the Region

Saturday 5 September 2026 ،
war crimes. Amnesty International, reviewing international forces' performance in Afghanistan, documented thousands of civilians killed and wounded, and rated the US government's efforts to investigate and prosecute potential war criminals as weak. In the latest case, the Pentagon formally a ...
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Basij Chief: Iranian Resistance Has Brought US, Israel ‘to Their Knees’
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Basij Chief: Iranian Resistance Has Brought US, Israel ‘to Their Knees’

Tuesday 8 September 2026 ،
war, Taeb claimed the US provided extensive financial, logistical and military support to Israel but was ultimately forced into a ceasefire. He said the conflict had damaged the image of the US military and argued that Iran’s resistance had challenged Washington and Israel despite their superi ...
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle
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Mecca Attack amid War of Narratives: Three Clues to Settle the Riddle

Saturday 19 September 2026 ،
war and the region's political shifts, who stands to gain from turning it into a wider sectarian and media firestorm? Answering that question does not necessarily mean identifying who carried out the attack; it means examining the conditions under which it unfolded. War in a point where the bal ...
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UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US
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UN Report on Minab School War Crime a Nightmare to US

Sunday 20 September 2026 ،
war of aggression against Iran continues as the aspects of attacks on civilians more than ever come to focus of the international organizations. A recent report by the UN fact-finding committee about Iran provides one of the most important published documents about the US military and illegal actio ...
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA
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Trump’s War against the World at UNGA

Wednesday 23 September 2026 ،
war during his General Assembly speech, instead of taking de-escalation and peace. Alwaght- The US President Donald Trump went to the UN to address the annual gathering of the General Assembly. A considerable part of his speech was more like a list of threats and warnings than a normal one. He addre ...

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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.