Author: Steven Sahiounie

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Clashes have been going on in Sudan for more than ten days between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support forces and corpses fill the streets. All attempts at a truce have so far failed. The clashes involved all types of light, medium and heavy weapons until military aviation was used. The major regional and international countries are working to find a way out of this crisis, but all have failed. But Sudan, like all countries, suffers from crises of external interference in general, and American intervention has a big role in crises, especially…

Most of the charges are politically motivated, Anatoly Antonov has said More than a hundred Russian nationals are currently in American prisons or jails, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov has revealed. The comments came after he visited two Russians jailed in New York on Wednesday, as part of his diplomatic duties. “We will definitely continue the practice of visiting our compatriots who ended up in American dungeons,” Antonov told reporters. “According to some reports, we actually have more than 100 people.” Antonov had traveled from Washington, DC to Brooklyn, New York to visit two Russian citizens, Anatoly Legkodymov and Dmitry…

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that “flying with transfers, they would have been able to reach the destination no sooner than at the end of Sergey Lavrov delegation’s visit to the UN headquarters” The US embassy in Moscow returned passports without visas to half of the journalists that were supposed to travel with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to New York, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. She was responding to a statement by US Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy, who said Russian reporters could have flown to New York separately from the delegation after…

Wagner has led the Battle of Bakhmut since last summer. The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary squad announced on Thursday that artillery bombardment in Bakhmut would be suspended to allow Ukrainian forces on the other side of the frontline to safely tour the city with visiting US journalists. Wagner has led the Battle of Bakhmut since last summer, but Ukrainian forces have so far blocked Russian attempts to gain full control of the city. The private military company is in control of almost 90% of the city at the moment, with Ukrainian forces holding on to the Western outskirts of…

UK Deputy Defense Minister Andrew Murrison dodges a question about long-range weapons to Kiev, which Russia has previously warned against. UK Deputy Defense Minister Andrew Murrison dodged a question about the probable sale of long-range weapons to Kiev on Thursday, adding that the UK had previously provided Ukraine with AS-90 self-propelled artillery systems. Murrison told the House of Commons when asked what long-range weapons the UK will supply to Ukraine that “AS-90 is a good artillery piece and Ukraine will certainly find a great benefit in doing what it has to do. The aim of our support to Ukraine is…

The pro-reform protests coincide with the negotiations at the president’s residence between coalition and opposition representatives to reach a broad consensus on the reform. After a streak of opposition demonstrations protesting Netanyahu’s judicial reforms, tens of thousands of settlers gathered tonight in occupied Al-Quds to protest in favor of the judicial reform, Israeli media reported. The objective of the demonstrations, which was dubbed the “March of the Million”, was to show support for Netanyahu and his judicial overhaul initiative. “I thank the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who came to Jerusalem tonight to support our government. Your passion and patriotism…

“We agreed to continue deepening the interaction in the economy and trade, stimulate the steady growth of the bilateral trade turnover and promote the inflow of reciprocal investments and help business companies of the two countries to enter markets of each other,” the Russian leader stressed Russia is keen to increase gas supplies to other countries via the gas hub to be established in Turkey, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We set ourselves up for making more active cooperation on gas supplies to third countries. This is the focus in the proposal to establish a regional gas hub in…

Russia supports international efforts to find a peaceful solution, Putin’s spokesman has said Moscow backs third-party contact with Kiev that seeks a political settlement to the Ukraine conflict but sees its objectives as sacrosanct, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained on Thursday. His comments came a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, for the first time since Moscow launched its military operation in the neighboring state more than a year ago. “We are ready to welcome anything that can bring the conflict in Ukraine closer to an end and, naturally, the accomplishment of all of Russia’s…

The situation in Sudan escalated amid disagreements between the army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who also heads the ruling Sovereignty Council, and the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (also known as Hemedti), who is al-Burhan’s deputy on the council Russia is calling on the sides of the conflict in Sudan to reach a national consensus and cooperate, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on RT television on Thursday. Bogdanov, who is also the presidential special envoy for the Middle East and Africa, said Russia and Sudan always had friendly relations. “Our minister [Foreign Minister…

Washington has reportedly been surveilling Berlin through electronic means American spies have continued to eavesdrop on the German military even a decade after the 2013 NSA scandal, the newspaper Die Zeit and public broadcaster ARD reported on Thursday. The outlets cited a fresh ‘Pentagon leaks’ document detailing information that US intelligence had gathered about talks between the German and Chinese militaries. The document in question describes a February meeting between German Defense Ministry officials and a Chinese People’s Liberation Army delegation. The Germans demurred on deeper cooperation with their Chinese counterparts and called on Beijing to become more “transparent,” the paper seen…