Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Turkish presidency closes its doors to the US ambassador to Turkey following his meeting with the leader of the Turkish opposition. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that his doors were closed to US Ambassador to Turkey Jeffrey Flake after he met with opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan’s main opponent in the upcoming elections. “[US President] Joe Biden’s ambassador visits Kemal. Shame on you, think with your head. You are an ambassador. Your interlocutor here is the president. How will you stand up after that and ask for a rendezvous with the president? Our doors are closed for him, he can…

Israeli Occupation Forces attack the worshippers stationed in the Al-Qibli prayer hall in Al-Aqsa Mosque and threaten to arrest women if they do not leave the holy site. On Sunday evening, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) renewed their aggression against the Al-Aqsa mosque’s Al-Qibli Prayer Hall. According to Palestinian media, the IOF attempted to forcibly expel worshippers from the hall. The IOF also threatened to arrested the women if they did not leave the mosque. According to local media, the detainees refused to surrender to Israeli threats and resisted expulsion. Yesterday as well, the IOF attempted to expel Palestinians stationed in the Al-Qibli prayer…

The incumbent prime minister appears to have been ousted despite the 37-year-old was frequently praised as the country’s most popular prime minister in the 2000s. After narrowly defeating his rivals, the leader of Finland’s liberal-conservative National Coalition Party promised to be open to talks with all parties. However, despite their differences, the nationalist Finns Party emerged as the most likely candidate to create a ruling coalition. The Finnish population seems to be in favor of a power shift, as the liberal-conservative National Coalition Party emerged as Sunday’s victor in the tightly contested parliamentary election. The National Coalition of Petteri Orpo narrowly defeated the…

A source in the Damascus Police Command confirmed that the sound heard in Al-Mezzeh on Sunday evening was that of an explosive device detonating in a civilian car in the location. A source in the Damascus Police Command told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) that “the sound of the explosion heard on Sunday in Damascus was caused by the explosion of an explosive device in a civilian vehicle in the Mezzeh area.” Moreover, the source confirmed that no injuries were recorded, however, the detonated explosive resulted in the burning of the targeted car as well as those in the vicinity and…

At least 19 people were reported injured by a suspected IED explosion in a city center café Leading Russian military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maksim Fomin), has been reportedly killed in an explosion in Saint Petersburg on Sunday. RIA Novosti has claimed, citing a security source, that the blogger died in an attack on the city’s ‘Street Bar’ café, which also left more than a dozen injured. The venue belongs to “Wagner” PMC founder Evgeny Prigozhin, according to local news outlet Fontanka. Moscow daily Kommersant says this was confirmed by his Concord catering company in 2020. Tatarsky joined the…

The health of Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who has been in Israeli prisons for 38 years, has been gradually deteriorating, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Amani Sarahna, a PPS spokeswoman, told WAFA that the health condition of prisoner Daqqa, who is diagnosed with spinal cord cancer, is very serious, and his rate of improvement is very slow. Daqqa is in an unstable condition resulting from severe pneumonia, and was recently hospitalized due to his suffering from dizziness and a decrease in hemoglobin, she added. Daqqa is a Palestinian writer and activist who has been imprisoned by Israel since…

Two citizens were martyred due to landmine blast left behind by Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization in Salamyieh city, Hama province. SANA reporter said that a landmine left behind by Daesh terrorists went off in Dweizen area, southeastern of Salamiyah city in Hama countryside, killing two citizens. On March 2nd, three citizens were martyred while they were collecting truffles in an attack by Daesh terrorists in the Dweizen area. Source: SANA

The US occupation has brought dozens of military vehicles and containers coming from northern Iraq to its bases in Syrian al-Jazeera through the illegal al-Walid crossing in Hasaka countryside. A convoy of the US occupation comprising 60 vehicles, including trucks loaded with containers of weapons, ammunition and advanced military armored vehicles, in addition to 40 tankers for stealing oil accompanied by three military vehicles, entered the Syrian territories through the illegal al-Walid crossing, local sources from al-Yarubiya countryside in Hasaka told SANA reporter. The sources added that the convoy headed to the town of al-Yarubiya, coming from the occupation’s bases…

Several media outlets reported, that Sapega may soon be taken to Russia to serve the rest of her sentence Russian diplomats continue to work on the case of Russian national Sofia Sapega, who has been denied a pardon in Belarus, and hope to meet with her, Alexey Maskalev, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Minsk told TASS on Sunday. “Russian diplomats are working on Sapega’s case. They maintain close contacts with her attorney and the Belarusian side. We hope to meet with the Russian national again,” he said. Several media outlets reported on Sunday, citing attorney Anton Gashinnsky, that…

On April 2, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that another one of its advisors was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike on the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Israeli airstrikes, which took place early on March 31, targeted a position near Damascus according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency. “Meqdad Mehghani Jafarabadi, a member of the Revolutionary Guards, was wounded in a criminal attack of the Zionist regime on Friday and was martyred due to the severity of his injuries,” the IRGC said in a statement. “The crimes of the Zionist regime will not go unanswered and they…