Author: Steven Sahiounie

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty emphasized that lasting peace in the region requires a two-state solution, establishing an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. FM Abdelatty stated this at a joint press conference on Tuesday with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib, urging international and regional parties to respect state sovereignty and territorial integrity. Abdelatty highlighted that Cairo is destined and responsible as a major regional state to prevent the situation from escalating into a full-scale war. Egypt undertook this role not upon other parties’ request, but because “Egypt’s fundamental, national, and regional interests…

Türkiye on Wednesday submitted a declaration to the UN’s highest court saying that it is joining South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. The Turkish delegation including Turkish Ambassador in The Hague Selcuk Unal and Justice and Development (AK) Party Istanbul lawmaker Cuneyt Yuksel submitted Türkiye’s file to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Türkiye thus became a party to the genocide case, joining Nicaragua, Colombia, Libya, Mexico, Palestine, and Spain, who have also joined South Africa, which first filed the case last December. Ankara’s move is expected to be pivotal to the case, and is likely to encourage other countries…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has started a meeting with the heads of security agencies, the Defense Ministry, the General Staff and the Federal Security Service (FSB) on the situation in the Kursk Region. Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu and FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov are taking part in the meeting in person, while General Staff Chief Valery Gerasimov participates in the meeting in a videoconference format. The Russian president announced such a meeting earlier at a summit with members of the government, which he held earlier at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence near Moscow. Putin emphasized that “the…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday held a meeting with the ambassadors of Arab League nations. The meeting was announced on the X social media platform by the Turkish Foreign Ministry. “Our Minister Hakan Fidan met with the ambassadors of Arab League countries in Ankara,” it said. The meeting highlights Türkiye’s ongoing diplomatic engagements with the Arab League, fostering dialogue and cooperation between Türkiye and the member states of the regional organization. Source: Anadolu Agency

Tuesday’s Ukrainian attack on the borderline Russian region of Kursk is yet another terrorist attack against civilians, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik Radio. “That was yet another terrorist attack that obviously targeted peaceful residents, civilians,” the diplomat said. Meanwhile, the number of those injured in a massive Ukrainian attack has risen to 28, the region’s chief consultant surgeon Andrey Loktionov told reporters. On August 6, the Kursk Region came under a massive Ukrainian attack. Russian air defense systems downed 26 unmanned aerial vehicles and several rockets in the skies over the region as a Ukrainian attempt to…

Ukrainian troops, using a drone, attacked an ambulance in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region, killing its driver and a paramedic and wounding a doctor, acting regional Governor Alexey Smirnov said. “Ukrainian Nazis hit an ambulance near Sudzha with a drone. Its driver and a paramedic were killed, a doctor was wounded. Our medics are real heroes while the terrorists who strike ambulances will be justly punished. My sincerest condolences to the friends and families of the deceased,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. Source: TASS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been sent an invitation to the inauguration ceremony of Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum on October 1, the Mexican Embassy in Moscow told Izvestia. “The invitation for Russia to take part in the inauguration of President Sheinbaum was sent to President Putin. The Russian president will make a decision whether he will participate in the ceremony himself or designate another high-ranking official to do so on his behalf,” the diplomatic mission said. In turn, the Russian Embassy in Mexico confirmed that “an invitation to the inauguration ceremony of the Mexican president was received by the Russian…

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Ali Bagheri-Kani, headed a delegation to participate in the extraordinary Executive Committee of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Iran Press/Iran news: This emergency meeting has the agenda of investigating the continuation of Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people, as well as the dimensions of the aggression of the Zionist criminal regime in the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and the violation of the sovereignty and national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran…

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Tuesday with U.S. President Joe Biden regional developments and the tensions in the Middle East, reviewing the latest efforts by Egypt, the U.S., and Qatar to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and to de-escalate current regional tensions, the Egyptian Presidency and White House announced. Both presidents affirmed their commitment to these efforts to de-escalate the situation and restore regional peace and security. The call El-Sisi received from his U.S. counterpart also addressed current concerns about the expanding conflict in the region. President El-Sisi highlighted Egypt’s view on the serious repercussions of the ongoing war…

SANA reported on Tuesday that Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad held a phone conversation with Iranian Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani in which they discussed recent Israeli aggressions. The two officials condemned the recent assassination of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr in Lebanon, both of which were committed by “Israel.” Mikdad criticized “Israel’s” policy of escalation and its expansion of aggression across the region, holding it accountable for committing war crimes and acts of genocide in the occupied territories. He stressed that these actions must not go unpunished and reiterated Syria’s…