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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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Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?
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Can Ankara and PKK Find Common Path to Peace?

Tuesday 5 November 2024
Iraqi territory. The government claims that these attacks have practically grounded PKK and made it lose its operational forces, but the elements of the PKK every now and then carry out surprise operations against the military, causing casualties.  In the meantime, Alwaght has talked to former ...
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School of Nasrallah Conf. : Bringing in Spotlight Hezbollah’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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School of Nasrallah Conf. : Bringing in Spotlight Hezbollah’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Sunday 10 November 2024 ،
Iraqi thinker Sheikh Abdel Latif Al-Humayem. Arrangement of international School of Nasrallah conference indicates that the path of resistance continues and assassination of the resistance commanders and leaders will not damage this path. The Israelis thought that with the assassination of Nasralla ...
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Iraq on High Alert as Foreign-backed Terrorists Make New Push in Syria
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Iraq on High Alert as Foreign-backed Terrorists Make New Push in Syria

Sunday 1 December 2024 ،
Iraqi government and people in addition to the Syrians. The Iraqis, who still remember the bitter impacts of the Syrian war and the terrorist incursion into their territory and the consequent dark days, are following with special sensitivity the developments in Aleppo that fell to terrorists on Sat ...
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Iraq SCF’s Hat- trick in Political Game
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Iraq SCF’s Hat- trick in Political Game

Wednesday 4 December 2024 ،
Iraqi members of parliament these days are taking steps towards an important law that not only can make the current period a golden one for settling the internal differences and localizing the structure of customary laws in Iraq after 2003, but also highly influence the next year elections. The age ...
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Iraq, the Resistance Camp’s Trump Card in Rejuvenated Syria Conflict
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Iraq, the Resistance Camp’s Trump Card in Rejuvenated Syria Conflict

Saturday 7 December 2024 ،
Iraqi officials about the developments in the neighboring country, as the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani has implemented special measures and a state of emergency on the borders with Syria since the beginning of the developments and on the other hand, it demonstrates Iraq's ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
Iraqi officials have expressed their concerns about reports about ISIS restoring its power and possibly its leaders escaping the prisons in eastern Syria.  Mahmoud al-Hayani, an official at the Badr Organization of Iraq, announced on Monday that ISIS members have changed their methods and are ...
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?
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What’s Motivating US Military Stay in Syria Post-Assad?

Wednesday 15 January 2025 ،
Iraqi and Syrian soil, it is estimated that there are now 2,000 US troops in Syria, a number that is much higher than the 900 troops it announced in December. In October 2019, when the US military evacuated its military base in Kobani region, it announced that it had bombed the remaining facilities ...
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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 ،
Iraqi leaders now have serious concerns about interventionist policies of the Trump's White House and challenges to the Iraqi internal stability and foreign relations. Meanwhile, the confrontation of Iraqi residence groups with the US is nothing new, and given Trump's record of actions in h ...
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Iraq’s Security Riddle and Risk of Repeat of a Historic Mistake
Analysis

Iraq’s Security Riddle and Risk of Repeat of a Historic Mistake

Tuesday 18 February 2025 ،
Iraqi parliament intend to enhance the job benefits of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) as an appreciation of a decade of sacrifices of these voluntary forces, this worthy and necessary move is running into targeted and politically-motivated obstacles. After the law for integration of the PMF ...
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Historic Funeral for Sayyed Nasrallah Sends Resistance Globalized
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Historic Funeral for Sayyed Nasrallah Sends Resistance Globalized

Sunday 23 February 2025 ،
Iraqi parties also joined the event.  Massive coverage by regional and international media  Since Lebanon has never seen such a funeral, hundreds of Lebanese and foreign media outlets came from various countries to record and broadcast historic and magnificent moments to the world. More ...

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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