Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

Editor's Choice

News

Most Viewed

Day Week Month

In Focus

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
New node

New node

Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on

alwaght.net
Five Components of Identity Crisis in West Asia

Five Components of Identity Crisis in West Asia

Thursday 11 August 2016
Perhaps the most striking feature of the state systems in the Western Asia region is the conflict between the government and identity. Alwaght- Perhaps the most striking feature of the state systems in the Western Asia region is the conflict between the government and identity. Through the years sin ...
alwaght.net
What Crises Motivated US Military Presence in West Asia?

What Crises Motivated US Military Presence in West Asia?

Wednesday 21 September 2016 ،
Sykes-Picot Agreement gave rise to new structures in West Asia that were based on racial and identity differences. The fact is that new Muslim states were formed within borders of former Ottoman Empire in best interests of the Western powers that won the First World War, particularly Britain and Fra ...
alwaght.net
Battle for Mosul; Post-ISIS Agendas

Battle for Mosul; Post-ISIS Agendas

Tuesday 18 October 2016 ،
Sykes-Picot borders be redrawn. There is also information about French support for a referendum on this issue within the region following the anticipated liberation of Mosul. Meanwhile, authorities are wary of the various plots to divide it after Mosul is liberated. Engaged in heavy fighting agains ...
alwaght.net
Mosul Liberation a Triumph, US Participation Suspicious: Expert

Mosul Liberation a Triumph, US Participation Suspicious: Expert

Sunday 23 October 2016 ،
Sykes-Picot Agreement unrightfully separated it from mainland Turkey. This claim is questionable because a majority of Mosul’s residents are Arabs and there is very small Turkmen minority in the ISIS-held city. This comes while the Turkmens are spread across other Iraqi regions and this should ...
alwaght.net
How Saudi Arabia Became US’ Top Ally

How Saudi Arabia Became US’ Top Ally

Thursday 5 January 2017 ،
Sykes-Picot Agreement. Well aware of its name on the US list of must-split countries according to the Greater Middle East strategy, the kingdom struggled to promote its place in the American foreign policy in a bid to steer clear of undergoing the partition process as an old ally of the US, and at ...
alwaght.net
How Cairo Handed Over Arab World Leadership to Riyadh?

How Cairo Handed Over Arab World Leadership to Riyadh?

Monday 3 July 2017 ،
Sykes-Picot, were stricken between the then global powers such Britain and France which led to drawing new borders between the Islamic territories and emergence of independent states in West Asia and North Africa. The same time witnessed heated rivalry between regional and international powers to g ...
alwaght.net
Jordan’s Policy on Syrian Crisis

Jordan’s Policy on Syrian Crisis

Friday 21 July 2017 ،
Sykes-Picot agreement ensued, Jordan went under rule of the Britain. And later, the British leaders gave the rule of Jordan and Iraq to sons of Sharif Hussein bin Ali of Hijaz after London declined to fulfil its promise about allowing their father to form a united Arab government. In fact, Jordan wa ...
alwaght.net
West Asia Security Pact A Pipe Dream

West Asia Security Pact A Pipe Dream

Thursday 22 February 2018 ،
Sykes-Picot Agreement, reached between France and Britain in 1916, which redesigned the countries’ borders and the map of the region as a whole is one of the causes of the today’s border disputes. With the border discords, not to mention the ideological and historical disputes, it is rou ...
alwaght.net
Re-Colonization: France, Turkey and England Return to Colonial Ambitions

Re-Colonization: France, Turkey and England Return to Colonial Ambitions

Friday 25 January 2019 ،
Sykes-Picot agreement), ex-President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, spoke of this even more clearly. This should help us better to understand the desire of President Emmanuel Macron to continue the war against Syria, without the United States. There has always been a “colonial party&r ...
alwaght.net
Rise of Paris to Get Rid of US Domination, Shift Towards West Asia

Rise of Paris to Get Rid of US Domination, Shift Towards West Asia

Friday 4 September 2020 ،
Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916), from which the new Iraqi government was born. In the years since the formation of the Iraqi government (in 1923), Paris has shown great interest in cooperating with Baghdad. It has signed 76 cooperation agreements with Iraq since 1933, of which 14 are still valid. After ...

Gallery

Photo

Film

Gaza schools are the targets of the Zionist regimes attacks

Gaza schools are the targets of the Zionist regimes attacks