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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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Yemeni Ansarullah’s Deeper Involvement in Regional Equations via Baghdad
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Yemeni Ansarullah’s Deeper Involvement in Regional Equations via Baghdad

Wednesday 10 July 2024
PMF) headquarters in northern Baghdad and was shown in a video clip appreciating the factions of PMF. He said that Ansarullah and the PMF, also called Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic, are an inseparable unit that continue to perform duties with great enthusiasm despite challenges and problems. Al-Shorfi, ...
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Why’s Tel Aviv Announced Hamas Comdr. Assassination Simultaneous with Tehran and Beirut Assassinations?
Analysis

Why’s Tel Aviv Announced Hamas Comdr. Assassination Simultaneous with Tehran and Beirut Assassinations?

Saturday 3 August 2024 ،
PMF) base in Babil province of Iraq. Three other members of Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah, Hussein Karim Kadhem al-Daraji, Haider Hassan Hussein al-Saadi, and Ali Sadegh Imran al-Mousavi were also killed in the American airstrikes. The important point is the coincidence of the American air operations ...
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Ifs and Buts of Turkey-Iraq Security Agreement
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Ifs and Buts of Turkey-Iraq Security Agreement

Sunday 18 August 2024 ،
PMF) or Hashd Al-Shaabi in Arabic, have always described Turkey as an aggressor and wanted the country's forces to leave Iraq, and at times they carried out rocket and drone attacks on some Turkish positions inside Iraq. These groups, which have carried out hundreds of attacks on US bases in Ira ...
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Israeli Calculations behind Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Assassination?
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Israeli Calculations behind Hezbollah’s Nasrallah Assassination?

Sunday 29 September 2024 ،
PMF) and guarantee Israeli security, but these crimes backfired and now Iraqis strike all the American bases in Iraq and Syria and the occupied territories.  About Yemen's Ansarullah, though a number of its leaders and commanders were assassinated by the US and its allies, these cowardly a ...
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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 ،
PMF) brigades to the border with Syria. The PMF, a voluntary force, was formed in opposition to the ISIS rise in 2014 following a fatwa by Grand Shiite Cleric Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani.  Iraqi Defense Minister Thabit Muhammad al-Abbasi, during a visit to forces stationed on the border wi ...
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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 ،
PMF), with their high combat capabilities and equipped with the most advanced weapons and a wide range of forces familiar with urban and guerrilla warfare against terrorist-takfiri groups and with valuable experience learned from the fight against ISIS, give us another reason to think that Iraq is k ...
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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project
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Golan-Euphrates Corridor: Tel Aviv’s Big Leap to ’Greater Israel’ Project

Thursday 19 December 2024 ،
PMF).  Third, the creation of this corridor could bring economic benefits to Israel, if the regime can strengthen its presence in Syria, it can export Israeli goods to eastern Syria, where the Kurds are present, and in return import oil and gas from this region. It is expected that Israel will ...
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?
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Will ISIS Resurge as a Threat?

Tuesday 31 December 2024 ،
PMF), are trying to obliterate all the cells and remnants of the ISIS and fill the security gaps in areas prone to insecurity.  Ahmed Fawaz al-Wutaifi, a representative of the Iraqi State of Law parliamentary coalition, stressed that the security forces and the PMF are ready to respond to any ...
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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 ،
PMF as Washington finds it a firm obstacle ahead of its plots in Iraq and region. Alwaght- With the assumption of power by Donald Trump, the prospects of the US tensions with the rivals and even the international partners are gaining weight and politicians in various countries are bracing for Trump& ...
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Iraq’s Security Riddle and Risk of Repeat of a Historic Mistake
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Iraq’s Security Riddle and Risk of Repeat of a Historic Mistake

Tuesday 18 February 2025 ،
PMF forces as a boost to this anti-terror force, but obstructions are ahead. Alwaght- While the pro-resistsnce factions in the 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 wor ...

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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