Author: Steven Sahiounie

Aleppo International Airport went out of service in an Israeli aggression targeting the airport on Monday at dawn. ‘At about 4:30 a.m. on Monday, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial act of aggression from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Lattakia, targeting Aleppo Airport’, a military source told SANA. The source added that the aggression caused material damage to the airport runway, thus it went out of service. Source: SANA

The BRICS summit was held in Johannesburg from August 22-24 BRICS leaders deal with real issues while Western politicians and reporters tend to mostly wag their tongues, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in remarks for a Rossiya-1 television program. “It shows that they wag their tongues, while we use our heads and [engage in] concrete issues,” the minister said of Western politicians and reporters who had spoken condescendingly about the BRICS. He made the comment on the program called “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” that comes out on the Rossiya-1 television channel. An excerpt of the program was posted by journalist…

Ten Palestinian prisoners are persisting with their hunger strikes in protest of the administrative detention policies and mistreatment by Israeli prison authorities. In an ongoing display of resistance, ten Palestinian prisoners have embarked on an indefinite hunger strike, with eight of them rejecting their administrative detention and protesting against the torment inflicted upon them by the Israeli prison authorities. The hunger strikers include Sultan Khalouf and Kayed Fasfous, who have abstained from food for the past 24 days. Additionally, Osama Dakrouk has been on a hunger strike for 20 days. Others joining the protest include Mohammad Taysir Zakarna, Anas Ahmad…

On the sidelines of the July NATO summit in Vilnius, the G7 adopted a declaration on long-term security guarantees for Ukraine More than 20 countries have joined the declaration of the Group of Seven (G7) on long-term security guarantees for Kiev, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said on Saturday. “As of today, more than 20 countries have already joined the G7 declaration on security guarantees for Ukraine. Our team continues its work. Now there are almost 30 [countries] in total, including the G7,” Zelensky said in a video statement published on his Telegram channel. He also recalled that Ukraine has…

According to the commission, Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the votes as a result of the vote count, while his main rival Nelson Chamisa – 44% Zimbabwe’s election commission said late on Saturday that incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won presidential election, Reuters reported. According to the commission, Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the votes as a result of the vote count, while his main rival Nelson Chamisa – 44%. Meanwhile, Chamisa’s opposition Citizens’ Coalition for Change party said it would not recognize “any result hastily assembled without proper verification”. On August 23, presidential and parliamentary elections were held in the country.…

A high-ranking Iranian general outlined a new strategy to bolster the country’s naval power and presence in international waters, calling for close maritime cooperation with China and Russia to counter the US. In comments at the meeting of a council making policies for a national conference on maritime threats and opportunities, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said it would be impossible to define the position of Iran, the Islamic Revolution and the resistance front in the “geometry of the new world order” without strong presence in high seas and oceans. “In order to counter the cruel sanctions imposed by the…

According to Vladimir Saldo, the war correspondent was wounded A military correspondent of the News Front agency was wounded in a life attempt committed by Ukrainian troops in the Kherson Region, the region’s acting governor, Vladimir Saldo, said on Sunday. “Today, Ukrainian militants used a FVP drone to make an attempt to kill New Front war correspondent Lex [codename]. His car was traced near Alyoshki and a bomb was dropped on it. Lex received a wound,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to Saldo, the journalist’s car was seriously damaged. Source: Tass

A number of Palestinian civilians this evening suffered from suffocation after being attacked by Israeli settlers and the occupation forces in Madama village, south of Nablus, said local sources. Settlers attacked citizens’ homes in the southern area of the village, under the protection of the occupation soldiers who fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters toward residents, causing suffocation to a number of them, acting Governor of Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, told WAFA. He added that the soldiers and settlers tried to break the doors and windows of a number of houses, pointing out that this was the second attack by…

Nothing was set alight and none of the residents were hurt An apartment building was damaged in the central Russian city of Kursk as a drone slammed into it overnight, said the region’s governor, Roman Starovoit. “According to preliminary information, a drone crashed into an apartment building on the Karl Marx Street in Kursk overnight. Windows were smashed on some floors. A shockwave also damaged some windows of the engineering department building of Kursk State Agrarian University on the Karl Marx Street. Nothing was set alight and none of the residents were hurt,” he said on Telegram. According to the…

Sergei Lavrov and Samekh Shukri exchanged congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry have reaffirmed the two countries’ determination to boost dialogue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The ministers exchanged greetings on the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations. “The parties reaffirmed their determination to maintain political dialogue on pressing issues on the regional and international agenda, as well as to boost multifaceted cooperation,” the statement reads. The Russian Foreign Ministry added that the parties had also…