Author: Steven Sahiounie

The United Nations says some 2.3 million people have been displaced since the internal fighting started mid-April. The humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to deteriorate as clashes between the Sudanese Army and Rapid Support Forces continue to escalate for the second month in a row without an end in sight. The country’s capital Khartoum witnessed the most intense fighting, as well as major cities in the Kordofan and Darfur regions as Tribal militants were also drawn into the ongoing battles in the past few weeks. After eight weeks of armed battle that has exhausted crucial supplies and driven the healthcare…

The French politician insisted the peninsula is a settled issue, unrelated to the current Ukraine conflict There is no point in bringing up Crimea in any negotiations between Moscow and Kiev to end the current conflict, French opposition leader Marine Le Pen said on Thursday. While she called for talks to begin as soon as possible, she added that Crimea is Russian and the issue has been settled since 2014. “Crimea has nothing to do with the Ukraine conflict,” Le Pen told Franceinfo in the course of a morning newscast. “We can quibble about the conditions in which the referendum was organized,…

American officials have announced the deployment of F-22s, citing “provocative” Russian air operations The US military has sent additional fighter jets to the Middle East after accusing Russia of “increasingly unsafe” aircraft activity in the region, including during several incidents in Syria. F-22 Raptors with the 94th Fighter Squadron have been deployed from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, according to Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees US military operations in the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of Africa. The decision was part of a “multifaceted show of US support and capability in the wake of increasingly unsafe and unprofessional behavior by Russian…

Algeria and Russia are expanding their cooperation as they sign numerous agreements to bolster their partnership in various areas. Russia and Algeria signed Thursday several agreements bolstering their bilateral ties, including a convention on mutual extradition and an agreement on cooperating in the field of exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune also signed a declaration on enhancing the strategic partnership between the countries following their meeting in Moscow. In the wake of his talks with Tebboune, Putin described Algeria as a “key partner” in the Arab World and…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Director of Partnerships Karim Amer urged participants at the VII Brussels conference on “Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region” to include Palestine Refugees in their humanitarian assistance. After 12 years of conflict, COVID-19, the socio-economic crisis and, most recently, the earthquake, Palestine Refugees in Syria are increasingly vulnerable. UNRWA Director of Partnerships Karim Amer said: “UNRWA provides essential services like education, healthcare and psychosocial support – to some 438,000 Palestine Refugees who remain in Syria and 50,000 Palestine Refugees who have fled to…

The United States is calling on the Israeli occupation to give it more information about the death of an elderly Palestinian-American man killed in January. The United States wants the Israeli occupation to give it more information about the decision taken by the government not to prosecute Israeli soldiers over the killing of a Palestinian-American man, the State Department said Wednesday. The Israeli occupation’s military advocate general said Tuesday that the soldiers who left 78-year-old Omar Asaad outside overnight after detaining him and before he was found dead would not be criminally prosecuted and would instead face disciplinary measures. “Since…

The president of Iran traveled to Cuba on the final leg of a three-nation tour of Latin America. President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage arrived in Havana on Wednesday night, after visiting Venezuela and Nicaragua. In a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian described Iran and Cuba as pioneers of development of regional convergence. He said Iran and Cuba can provide opportunities for each other for presence in the coalitions formed in the two sides of the world. “The focus of cooperation (between Iran and Cuba) would be on biotechnological, technical, medical and energy…

Maria Zakharova pointed out that Moscow was fully committed to the principle of the inadmissibility of nuclear war Russia’s hypothetical use of nuclear weapons may happen exclusively in extraordinary circumstances and will be possible only for defensive purposes, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Thursday. “Russia’s nuclear deterrence policy is strictly defensive. The hypothetical use of nuclear weapons is clearly limited by extraordinary circumstances within the framework of strictly defensive purposes,” she said. Zakharova pointed out that Moscow was fully committed to the principle…

The goal of the summit, which is being hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, is to “bring together private and public financing where it is most needed by people and the planet.” Chinese Premier Li Qiang will visit Germany and France from Sunday, June 18, to Friday, June 23, as per Beijing’s Foreign Ministry. Li will “take part in the seventh round of China-Germany government consultations, and also pay an official visit to France,” Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin stated. “At the invitation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French government,” he will also participate in the Summit for a New…

This comes after sources reported earlier that the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran will reopen during the ministerial visit to Iran. The Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, will visit Tehran on Saturday to hold talks with senior Iranian officials, the Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Thursday. Sources to the news agency had reported earlier that the Saudi Embassy in Tehran will reopen its doors in conjunction with the Foreign Minister’s trip on June 17. The top diplomats of both countries met in South Africa, earlier in June, where they discussed in detail the pathway to fully restoring…