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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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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
northern Iraq, Turkey has already seized Iraqi territory and it rejects to withdraw despite several Baghdad complaints to the international organizations.  Therefore, the Iraqi officials should take danger of the evil plans of this triangle for Syria and Iraq seriously to the highest degrees a ...
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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 ،
northern Syria, including Idlib, Aleppo and Hama, and heavy clashes with the Syrian army continue in various areas. The Astana process was launched by participants in two Syrian opposition conferences in May and October 2015 in the capital of Kazakhstan and serves as a diplomatic umbrella that brin ...
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New Syria: Permanent or Temporary Victory for Erdogan?
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New Syria: Permanent or Temporary Victory for Erdogan?

Wednesday 11 December 2024 ،
northern Syria, which Erdogan considers a threat to Turkey's security and existence, space has been created to cleanse these areas of terrorist groups in Turkey's favor with the help of armed groups. To this end, since the beginning, the armed groups started confrontation of the US-supporte ...
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria
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Tahrir Al-Sham, the New US Infantry in Syria

Sunday 22 December 2024 ،
northern Syria that he will soon destroy them and in his recent remarks he also said that he will not leave Syria alone in the fight against ISIS and the Kurds. Therefore, given Turkey's announced policy towards the Kurds, there is no clear perspective on the presence of these groups in the new ...
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Syrian Future Looks Forward to the Rise of Resistance Youths
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Syrian Future Looks Forward to the Rise of Resistance Youths

Friday 27 December 2024 ،
northern provinces of Syria under their ambitious neo-Ottoman dreams. Can Turkey promise national integration and broad internal consensus for the transition to an inclusive civilian government in Syria while it has occupied parts of northern Syria and Iraq for several years to address security conc ...
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Over 100 Dead as US and Turkish Proxies Clash in Syria
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Over 100 Dead as US and Turkish Proxies Clash in Syria

Sunday 5 January 2025 ،
northern Syria have left more than 100 militants dead ALWAGHT- Over the past two days, clashes between Turkish-backed groups and US-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria have left more than 100 militants dead, according to a London-based war monitor. Recent clashes around the city of Manbij in no ...
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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 ،
northern Syria can be cited:  First, the construction of a base in this northern Syrian city on the border with Turkey comes as fighting between SDF and Turkish-backed militias has intensified. Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, descri ...
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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 ،
northern Iraq and Syria over the past decade, posing a major challenge to Ankara-Erbil relations. In October 2014, Barzani led an initiative to unite the ranks of the Kurds in Syria, and Duhok city in northern Iraq hosted several meetings between the PYD and the Kurdish National Council (composed o ...
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Turkey Planning Influence in Iraq
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Turkey Planning Influence in Iraq

Saturday 1 February 2025 ،
northern Iraq.  In this regard, in a meeting with Iraqi officials, Fidan stressed Ankara's willingness to expand security cooperation to neutralize the capabilities of the PKK.  Turkey believes that the security agreement between the two countries, which was signed earlier this year, ...
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HTS Aggressions on Lebanon Borders: A New Conflict with Regional Fallouts
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HTS Aggressions on Lebanon Borders: A New Conflict with Regional Fallouts

Monday 10 February 2025 ،
northern and eastern fronts in addition to the southern front. The rebel groups' excuse-seeking on the Lebanese borders comes at a time when the interim Syrian President Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has repeatedly claimed that the armed groups under his command do not pose threat to neighboring count ...

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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