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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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Astana Format Meeting in Doha Heavily Overshadowed by Turkish Betrayal
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Astana Format Meeting in Doha Heavily Overshadowed by Turkish Betrayal

Saturday 7 December 2024
Baghdad meeting between Iran and Iraq could be effective in finding a solution to end the Syrian crisis. The Syrian government is also trying to gain control of the situation and in the coming days, the Axis of Resistance will try to expel the terrorists from Syria and restore security to the countr ...
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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 ،
Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS terrorist organization.  In April 2013, al-Baghdadi abruptly announced that his group was cutting ties with Al-Qaeda and establishing his own new organization in Syria. In his first television interview in 2014, al-Jolani told Aljazeera that Syria should be govern ...
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Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria
Analysis

Dark Horizon of Transition Period in Post-Assad Syria

Saturday 14 December 2024 ،
Baghdadi's style.  Both of the leaders chose minbars of mosques as their first spot from which they delivered their first speeches to announce victory and win allegiance.  Al-Jolani in his speech that reminded of his jihadi rhetoric announced that what they have gained is a victory n ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Baghdad officials need to be conservative about interaction with al-Jolani and the HTS as the new rulers of Syria are yet to adopt an approach on the security of the Syria-Iraq borders.  Since al-Jolani at the beginning of the Syrian war was one of ISIS leaders and had a legal case in Iraq, Ir ...
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Ayatollah Khamenei Honors Soleimani, stating that the Enemies will Depart in Humiliation
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Ayatollah Khamenei Honors Soleimani, stating that the Enemies will Depart in Humiliation

Wednesday 1 January 2025 ،
Baghdad in 2020. Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized that Soleimani's steadfast strategy was to strengthen the Resistance Front, and he remained dedicated to revitalizing resistance efforts throughout his life. The remarks were made during a meeting with the families of martyrs, veterans, and resistan ...
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Iranian Spokesman Describes Gen. Soleimani as a Champion of Hearts
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Iranian Spokesman Describes Gen. Soleimani as a Champion of Hearts

Saturday 4 January 2025 ،
Baghdad International Airport targeted and martyred General Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy leader of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and several others. Soleimani was in Ba ...
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges
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Barzani’s Initiative for Future of Syrian Kurds: Aims and Challenges

Tuesday 21 January 2025 ،
Baghdad in this regard, and in recent weeks, there have been interactions and negotiations between them and the Syrian Kurds that could have an impact on the course of developments in the country. In the first step, Hamid al-Darbandi, an envoy of Massoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Democrati ...
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Turkey Planning Influence in Iraq
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Turkey Planning Influence in Iraq

Saturday 1 February 2025 ،
Baghdad is within the framework of pursuing priority bilateral issues for the two countries and activating MoUs, especially in the fields of security, water, economy, development path, energy and restarting the oil export pipeline.  Focusing on security issues: From PKK to ISIS  One of t ...
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The US and Iraq’s PMF: A Battle Beyond Iraqi Borders
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The US and Iraq’s PMF: A Battle Beyond Iraqi Borders

Sunday 2 February 2025 ،
Baghdad to dissolve the effective anti-terror voluntary force or at least full integration of it in the regular army.  Pressures and challenges  The Iraqi government is constantly under international and regional pressures to dissolve the PMF or integrate them into the security ministrie ...

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Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures

Palestinian prisoner exchange operation under strict security measures