Author: Steven Sahiounie

When asked about Ukraine’s counteroffensive, the Secretary General said: “The Ukrainians are making progress, but there is a lot of uncertainty” NATO’s support to Ukraine will continue until it wins, the military alliance’s chief, Jens Stoltenberg, assured reporters at a news conference in Oslo on Thursday. “NATO will support Ukraine until it wins the war,” Reuters quoted Stoltenberg as saying. The NATO chief was asked to comment on whether Kiev would have to give up territory to Russia in order to put an end to the conflict and get NATO membership in return. Stoltenberg’s senior colleague earlier said that could be a…

 Russian air defense systems have snuffed out a Ukrainian strike drone over the Belgorod Region at about 9 a.m. Moscow time (06:00 GMT) on Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “Today, at about 9:00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by an aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicle on objects in Russia was thwarted. By means of air defense, a Ukrainian strike UAV was detected and destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that there were no casualties or damage. According to the Defense Ministry, there were no…

Israeli bulldozers Thursday demolished a Palestinian-owned school in al-Qaboun Bedouin community in the village of Kafr Malik, east of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The head of the Kafr Malik village council, Najeh Rustom, told WAFA that the occupation forces, reinforced with military bulldozers, stormed the Bedouin community of al-Qaboun, east of the town, and demolished the only school in it, known as Ras al-Tin school. He added that the residents of the Bedouin community were recently forced to leave the area due to the ongoing Israeli settler attacks on them and their properties. Rustom pointed out that, last…

Israeli forces Thursday morning shot and killed a Palestinian youth during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. According to a statement by the Ministry of Health, Mustafa al-Kastouni, 32, was killed after he was shot by Israeli gunfire in the head, chest and abdomen. Earlier today, a large unit of Israeli army raided Jenin, sparking intense confrontations with Palestinian youths. Local sources confirmed that the Israeli army blew up al-Kastouni’s house and kidnapped two other Palestinians during the raid. Source: WAFA

The Arab Liaison Committee on Syria meeting, with the participation of Foreign and Expatriates Minister,Fayssal Mikdad, dealt with the developments in the situation in Syria, and the contacts of ministers, members of the Liaison Committee, and the Syrian government with the United Nations and friendly countries, within the framework of efforts for a comprehensive settlement of the crisis in Syria, in line with relevant international references. The final statement of the meeting said the participants stressed the need to take practical and effective steps to progressively resolve the crisis in Syria, in a way that preserves Syria’s unity, territorial integrity…

The Belarusian president expressed gratitude to China for its support in the areas of military-technical and defense cooperation Military cooperation between Belarus and China is not intended to target any third countries, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu at a bilateral meeting on Thursday. “Our entire cooperation, and this is very important, will not in any way be aimed against third countries. We don’t need that. We need to protect our countries and our peoples,” the BelTA news agency quoted the Belarusian leader as saying. The world is far from stable today, Lukashenko emphasized. “The world is facing…

Earlier, Switzerland’s UBS bank said in its report that, in 2022, the US wealth has dropped by $5.9 trillion, while Russia experienced a $600-billion growth US’ anti-Russian sanctions have failed, House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on her X page, calling on the US Administration to stop giving money to Ukraine. “America sent $113 billion plus sends $1 billion every month to Ukraine’s government and Biden wants another $20 billion yet Russia is getting richer and America is getting poorer by the trillions!!! U.S. sanctions failed. No more money for Ukraine!” Greene tweeted. Earlier, Switzerland’s UBS bank said in…

The association announced that the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defense Staff will meet in the Ghana capital city of Accra on August 17-18 to discuss the final plan of deployment of the rapid response forces in Niger The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commenced the activation of its rapid response forces for restoration of the constitutional order in Niger, Al Hadath reported Wednesday. The association announced that the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defense Staff will meet in the Ghana capital city of Accra on August 17-18 to discuss the final plan of deployment of the rapid response…

About eighty courier robots of Yandex are now operating in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Krasnodar Region MOSCOW, August 16. /TASS/. About eighty Yandex’ courier robots are now operating in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Krasnodar Region and their fleet will grow by more than 60% to 130 by the end of this year, the company’s press service told TASS. “About eighty courier robots of Yandex are now operating in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Republic of Tatarstan and the Krasnodar Region. We are assembling fifty more such robots,” the press service said.…

reportedly have a face-to-face encounter on the sidelines of the upcoming BRICS and G-20 leader summits. Indian and Chinese military commanders have reached an agreement to expedite efforts in resolving a longstanding border dispute, which could potentially lead to meetings between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at upcoming significant summits, Bloomberg reported. Both countries possess nuclear capabilities and share a disputed border stretching over 3,488 kilometers (2,167 miles). The dispute escalated notably in 2020 with a fatal clash, marking the most serious border conflict in four decades. Despite multiple rounds of negotiations, progress has been limited in reducing the substantial…