Author: Steven Sahiounie

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani, affirmed that Syria, with its pivotal strategic role, capabilities and political wisdom, is considered one of the most important Arab countries. “During the recent years, Syria has faced many Western conspiracies and the spread of terrorist organizations, and has lost many of its sons who sacrificed their blood for the honor and dignity of their country, and to defend the independence, sovereignty and unity of their country” Kanaani said in a statement to SANA correspondent in Tehran. He went on to say that the sacrifices made by the Syrian people in the face of…

South Korea’s navy says the exercises focus on mastering response procedures in a scenario featuring a DPRK ballistic missile launch. South Korea, the United States, and Japan carried out on Monday joint naval missile defense exercises to strengthen security cooperation against the DPRK’s alleged missile threats, Seoul’s navy said. On Friday, the three countries agreed at talks in Washington to hold regular missile defense and anti-submarine exercises to boost diplomatic and military cooperation. On the same day, the DPRK announced that it tested a new Hwasong-18 solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile, the latest in the country’s arsenal of deterrence weapons, which has shown…

An Iranian diplomat says Saudi Arabia and Iran are seeking to pave the way for putting their diplomatic missions back on track. Saudi and Iranian authorities are consulting and cooperating to pave the way for the reopening of their diplomatic missions, the Director General of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Office for Gulf Affairs, Alireza Enayati, confirmed on Monday. Enayati told IRNA that Iran is currently hosting a Saudi delegation, pointing out that the Saudi diplomats visited Tehran and then headed on Friday to the city of Mashhad to inspect the Kingdom’s consulate in the city. The Iranian diplomat added that the Saudi delegation will…

Al Mayadeen correspondent in Syria says the so-called US Coalition carried out a landing operation in the Ghandoura area in the Jarabulus countryside. Several massive explosions hit a US occupation military base in Deir Ezzor in the east of the country, local sources in Syria reported, as per Iranian news agency Mehr. On Sunday night, unconfirmed sources reported that some massive explosions hit one of the US military bases in the Conoco gas field in Deir Ezzor. Some news sources also reported that the US Coalition forces simultaneously targeted a drone over the base. It is noteworthy that the Conoco gas…

The country’s Defense Ministry says the massive exercises will include 26,000 military forces and will last until May 11. Sweden launched on Monday Aurora-23, the largest military exercises the country has witnessed in 25 years, which will involve 14 countries and around 26,000 servicemembers, according to a RIA Novosti report. Members from the US, UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, Finland, Poland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Austria will take part in the training that ends on May 11. “The purpose of the exercises is to strengthen the potential gathered against an armed attack on Sweden… Aurora-23 is the largest national exercise of…

Another day, another provocation by the US against China in its own backyard. In yet another deliberate provocation, the United States sent a naval cruiser through the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of “freedom of navigation.” The USS Milius guided-missile destroyer “conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit” on Sunday, the US Navy said, in the first US operation in the waters separating Taiwan from mainland China since January. The US Navy said the Milius had sailed “through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law.” Images showing crew members gazing out into the strait, one of…

As his popularity is plunging, Macron is expected to give a speech that the government spokesperson claimed would be in the spirit of “pacification”. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday is set to address France for the first time since signing into law his controversial pension reform, facing warnings that the political and social crisis sparked by the changes is not over. Macron signed the legislation early Saturday, just hours after the banner change to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 had been validated by the constitutional court, prompting accusations he was smuggling the law through in the dead of night.…

G7 countries’ leaders announced the intention to cut the reliance on civil nuclear technologies and other related products from Russia in a joint statement last June Japan, the UK, Canada, the US and France have reached an agreement on cooperation in the area of nuclear fuel and maintenance of stable supply chains for reducing the global market’s reliance on Russia as a supplier of such resources, according to a statement issued on Monday at the Nuclear Energy Forum that is being held in Japan’s Sapporo alongside the meeting of G7 ministers on climate, energy and environment. “Acknowledging the risks that…

On April 16, Poland and Hungary placed a temporary embargo on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products until June 30 The Slovakian government will suspend grain imports from Ukraine, the Pravda newspaper reported on Monday. The cabinet’s office will hold a meeting of an interdepartmental task force on the issue of temporarily restricting import of Ukrainian grain and a number of other product types later in the day, the paper said. “Further on it is necessary to impose stricter policies regulating the supply of goods from Ukraine at the government’s level,” the newspaper quoted the government as saying. On April 16, Poland and…

The Pacific Fleet’s forces “have practiced the issues of the combat sustainability of strategic missile-carrying submarines and their preparedness for employing their weapons, Sergey Shoigu reported The Pacific Fleet’s surprise combat readiness inspection practiced the preparedness of strategic missile-carrying submarines for employing their weapons, Defense Minister Army General Sergey Shoigu reported to Russian President Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin on Monday. The Pacific Fleet’s forces are carrying out the 2nd stage of the drills. The naval task force set up in a distant maritime area is transiting to the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, accomplishing the objectives of combat…