Author: Steven Sahiounie

On the agenda of the meeting, as expected, the main topic will be the situation in Ukraine The first meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) countries this year, hosted by Japan, will begin on Sunday in the Japanese resort town of Karuizawa. According to Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, the three-day event is intended to exhibit G7 unity and help its delegates establish amicable and trusted relations. The situation in Ukraine will be one of the primary subjects of the talks. On the eve of the meeting, Hayashi emphasized that the G7 aims to demonstrate its…

The incident at the contested maritime border highlights rising tensions following provocative US-S. Korea drills. A South Korean naval vessel fired warning shots after a DPRK patrol boat crossed the countries’ disputed maritime border, Seoul’s Defense Ministry reported. The boat crossed the Northern Limit Line on Saturday morning near South Korea’s Baekryeong Island, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. “Our Navy’s high-speed boat sent warning messages and conducted warning shots and immediately warded it off,” it said. “Our military is prepared against various provocations and keeping a decisive combat posture while closely monitoring the enemy’s movements,” the statement added.…

Official sources say the drone targeted a vehicle carrying PKK militants next to the Iranian border and left two more wounded. A drone strike allegedly carried out by Turkey killed at least two people and left others wounded in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region, AFP reported on Sunday citing officials. The drone targeted late Saturday a vehicle transporting Turkish Kurdish fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) near the border with Iran. Governor of Al-Sulaimaniyah region Haval Abu Baker discussed the issue with the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and expressed his concerns about the repeated attacks. “According to…

The International Committee of the Red Cross tells Al Mayadeen that on Sunday, five flights between Sanaa and Marib will take place to transport prisoners. Al Mayadeen correspondent in Sanaa reported that 48 liberated prisoners arrived at Sanaa airport from Marib airport on the first flights of the third day of the prisoner exchange deal in Yemen. According to our correspondent, Sanaa International Airport is set to receive on Saturday the third and last batch of prisoners, which includes 105 prisoners from Marib prisons. The International Committee of the Red Cross told Al Mayadeen that on Sunday, five flights between Sanaa and Marib…

By: Jowad Masoomi, Iranian researcher and writer Israel and the Republic of Baku, with different motivations and to project their internal crises, seek to create a “tension-causing and crisis-causing coalition” in the Caucasus and the region. Despite Tehran’s comprehensive support for the territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Azerbaijan for thirty years, the government of Baku has become a contractor that has leased the country’s facilities to Zionists, Takfiris and terrorists against the will of its people. The political and media blackmails of the Republic of Baku will not change Iran’s red lines regarding the immutability of international…

Syria and Armenia discussed means of boosting parliamentary cooperation. This came during a meeting between Armenia’s Deputy Speaker at National Assembly, Hakob Arshakyan, and Syria’s Ambassador to Armenia, Dr. Nora Arisian Dr. Arisian thanked Armenia for its political stances in supporting Syria and for efforts it exerted through sending humanitarian aid to the earthquake-affected She noted to the disastrous effects of the US and the EU unilateral economic sanctions imposed on the Syrian people which need international efforts in order to call for lifting them. Source: SANA

The official added that units of the Russian armed forces are already working to destroy Ukrainian firing points from where the shelling came A civilian resident of Donetsk was killed and six wounded when Ukrainian troops shelled the city’s Transfiguration Cathedral during Easter Vigil on Sunday, the acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, said. “For the time being, one person was reported as dead and six – as injured,” Pushilin wrote on his Telegram channel. “Fire broke out when a Ukrainian projectile hit a kindergarten. Damage was reported at the Roofed Market, [at] nearby shops and…

The Minister says the EU and the US should be trading partners because they share common values. French President Emmanuel Macron’s call for an autonomous EU is “naive”, said German Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Friday. “The idea of strategic autonomy of the European Union, I fear it’s naive,” Lindner said in response to a question while at Princeton University to deliver a speech. “Security on European soil without the strategic nuclear potential of the United States at least is unthinkable.” The German Minister said the United States and Europe should be trading partners just as they are partners in…

The Sudan Armed Forces say clashes are ongoing, but the situation is heading toward stability. The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors announced that the death toll from the armed clashes in the country has risen so far to 56 and the injuries to 595, while heavy bombing and intense gunfights are ongoing across the country, BBC reported on Sunday. 25 people, including 17 civilians, were killed in the country’s capital Khartoum, the organization said, further noting that the latest records do not include victims that are still unaccounted for due to the ongoing military confrontations, which disrupt rescue efforts. The General Command of…

Israeli occupation forces arrest a number of Palestinian youths in several neighborhoods of occupied Al-Quds. The Israeli occupation forces launched at dawn Sunday a mass arrest campaign against Palestinian youths in the occupied city of Al-Quds, and confrontations broke out at Al-Sahira Gate in the Old City and in the vicinity of Al-Majlis Gate. Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces arrested a number of youths in the neighborhoods of Bab Hutta, Bab Al-Sahira, Bab Al-Asbat, Al-Saadia, and the Old City. According to the sources, the occupation forces kidnapped the youths and took them to an unknown destination after beating…