Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli occupation forces carry out a massive campaign of arrests and raids, and the Palestinian resistance responds. Israeli occupation forces launched on Friday a huge campaign of incursions and arrests in several cities and villages in the West Bank. Occupying forces assaulted the town of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah, and raided many homes, according to local sources. The same sources reported that the liberated prisoner, Khaled Talal Sorour, was arrested by occupation forces during a raid on the town of Ni’lin. The occupation forces also arrested the Palestinian youth, Yahya Badr, after storming his house in the Jabal Al-Sharif area…

The bloc claims to be a defensive alliance but provokes confrontation, Beijing’s UN envoy has said NATO is “the real troublemaker” that has fully embraced “Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice” as it continues to generate global tensions, China’s permanent representative to the UN has said. In a statement on Thursday, Zhang Jun hit back at the communique issued by NATO members at the Vilnius summit earlier this week, which accused China of pursuing “coercive policies” that challenge the bloc’s interests. It also claimed that Beijing uses a wide array of tools to increase its global footprint and undermine the alliance’s security. The envoy rejected this…

The president explained that Russia has no law on private military companies and, therefore, “there is no such legal entity” Legalizing private military companies is a complicated issue that should be handled by the government and the parliament, because formally companies such as Wagner PMC are non-existent in Russia at this point, Russian President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying. Kommersant’s special correspondent Andrey Kolesnikov quoted the Russian president as saying in response to a question about the organization’s future that, from the point of view of the Russian legislation, “Wagner PMC does not exist.” The president explained that Russia has…

Viktor Orban noted that “residents in the West want the war” in Ukraine Inviting Ukraine to NATO would unleash another world war, so the allies rightly refrained from taking such a step at their Vilnius summit, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Kossuth Radio on Friday. “Had we added Ukraine to NATO, that would have caused an immediate war,” Hungary’s head of government said. However, hostile sentiments in favor of continuing the Ukrainian conflict still prevail in the West, he lamented. “Residents in the West want the war” in Ukraine, Orban said, adding that “the Ukrainians are aggressive” as they constantly demand…

The Egyptian statement adds that the aim of the talks is to “stop the bloodshed of the Sudanese people” and the “negative repercussions on neighbouring countries”. The Egyptian presidency released a statement on Thursday, inviting Sudan’s neighbors to a summit to “stop the bloodshed” in Sudan, as Ethiopia’s premier Abiy Ahmed arrives in Cairo despite tensions over a Nile river project. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s spokesperson confirmed that the president and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed “discussed ways to settle the crisis in Sudan”, before a larger regional meeting. The statement read that the meeting in Cairo will be attended by…

The controversial munitions have been banned by many countries over the long-term threat they pose to civilians Kiev has already received cluster munitions promised by the US, a Ukrainian general has told CNN. Washington has attempted to justify the delivery of the controversial arms by claiming that Ukraine would minimize the long-term threat to civilians when using them. “We just got them, we haven’t used them yet, but they can radically change [the battlefield],” Brig. Gen. Aleksandr Tarnavsky told the US news network on Thursday. He added that he expects Ukrainian troops to push Russian forces back from their defensive positions…

The participants in the Sudan’s Neighboring Countries Summit agree to form a ministerial mechanism that would find an end to the conflict in the country. Those participating in the ‘Sudan’s Neighboring Countries Summit’ have agreed to form a ministerial mechanism concerned with the crisis in the country, which would involve the foreign ministers of the countries that neighbor Sudan. The Egyptian President Abed Al-Fattah Al-Sisi called for the summit, which was attended by Moussa Faki, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmad Abu Al-Ghaith. According to those in attendance, the ministers will…

Ankara this week rolled back its opposition to Stockholm joining the US-led bloc Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Thursday that US President Joe Biden offered his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan more than $11 billion in IMF assistance to ratify Sweden’s bid to join the NATO bloc. In an article posted to his Substack account, Hersh wrote that he had been informed by an anonymous source that “Biden promised that a much-needed $11-13 billion line of credit” would be established for Türkiye by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was to be in return, Hersh suggested, for Erdogan removing Ankara’s…

“No one can join NATO while a war is going on,” the US president added Ukraine’s accession to NATO as conflict still continues on its soil would kick off the Third World War, US President Joe Biden said in Helsinki. “No one can join NATO while a war is going on <…> because that guarantees that we are in a war, we are in a Third World War,” he said at a joint news conference with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto, in comments broadcast on the White House website. The Finnish capital is the final stop on Biden’s European trip,…

According to the Russian president, the country responds to external challenges by strengthening the quality and efficiency of work and spreading freedom Russia will move only forward, choosing its own path, but without isolating itself from other countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Speaking at a technology conference titled “Computation and Communication. The Quantum World,” the president said that Russia’s adversaries had hoped the country would retreat and give up, but “that’s not how it will be.” “Russia will move only forward, choosing its own path, but at the same time without isolating itself from anyone,” Putin stated. The president…