Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli occupation troops arrested on Tuesday twelve Palestinians in different areas in the West Bank. Palestinian media outlets reported that the occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, and the towns of Yatta in Hebron and Sinjil in Ramallah, and arrested twelve Palestinians. On Monday, the occupation troops arrested twenty Palestinians in the West Bank. Source: SANA

The Russian leader recalled that the states then “distributed the zones of their influence among themselves and did not interfere with each other” Modern international problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin said while answering a question of one of the employees of the Ulan-Ude aircraft-building plant during a visit to the enterprise on Tuesday. “Of course, all the problems began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Why? Because the then world order – in a sense it still exists today – was built after World War II by the countries that won…

Disconnection from international finance systems has turned out to be “a blessing in disguise” for Moscow, Dmitry Peskov said The Russian financial sector is practically immune to the effects of the unfolding US banking crisis largely thanks to Western sanctions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. When asked about a spillover effect from the collapse of US lenders, which has led to a global stock rout, Peskov said problems in the American banking system cannot affect Russia in any way. “Our banking system, of course, has, let’s say, certain connections with some segments of the international financial system,…

These countries claim that “the Russian authorities have been informed regarding the ongoing investigations’ on the act of sabotage in question” German, Danish and Swedish authorities have rejected Russia’s proposals to cooperate in what concerns the investigation of the acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said in a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and members of the UN Security Council and General Assembly. The letter accompanies correspondence with Germany, Denmark and Sweden on the Nord Stream incidents probe that was released by Russia on Tuesday. These…

The billionaire has criticized Washington’s plan to help depositors recover funds from collapsing banks The US government’s intervention in the unfolding banking crisis has been slammed by Citadel hedge fund founder Ken Griffin, who told the Financial Times the situation should have served as a good lesson for investors. According to the report on Monday, Griffin said the strength of the US economy meant the authorities did not have to take such forceful action. “It would have been a great lesson in moral hazard,” he was quoted as saying by the FT. “Losses to depositors would have been immaterial, and it would have…

A new report by Responsible Statecraft outlines the reason behind the EU’s inability to broker a Saudi-Iran deal allowing China to become a significant player in the Middle East. It was China and not the European Union (EU) that facilitated the Iran-Saudi agreement to restore diplomatic relations. Responsible Statecraft, in a new piece, begged the question as to why the EU did not have a leading role in this new political breakthrough, noting that the new Middle East agreement “exposed the limits of the European Union’s influence.” Primarily, it is worth noting that China is considered, according to the EU’s “Strategic Outlook” Joint…

Western sanctions have failed to destroy the country’s economy, the president declared The Russian economy hasn’t collapsed due to sweeping Western restrictions, on the contrary, its sovereignty has grown many times over, President Vladimir Putin has stated. Putin, who made the comment while meeting with aircraft factory employees in Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, on Tuesday, noted the country had passed a significant stage in its development, which could be the most important result of 2022. “We have exponentially increased our economic sovereignty. After all, what did our adversary count on? That we would collapse in two or three weeks or in a…

By:Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator March 15, 2023, marks the 12th anniversary of the Syrian conflict, which also follows a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the border shared by Türkiye and Syria. The cities of Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, and Jeblah were severely damaged with more than 5,000 dead, and hundreds of thousands left homeless. The conflict has erroneously been labeled a civil war, or sectarian war. It was neither, but was a U.S.-NATO attack on Syria intended for “regime change.” Before the U.S.-NATO attack, Aleppo was the industrial capital of Syria, and one of the biggest hubs of…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian voiced Tehran’s support for any political solution to the crisis in Yemen that would ensure a lasting ceasefire and lift the humanitarian blockade on the Arab country. In a meeting in Tehran on Monday, Amirabdollahian and UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg talked about ways for the peaceful settlement of the Yemen crisis. Amirabdollahian underlined that Iran supports the continuation of the ceasefire in Yemen as well as the removal of the inhumane siege of the country and the resolution of the crisis in line with humanitarian issues and within the framework of dialogue among…

One of the leaders of the terrorist groups was killed in an attack targeting his car in Shamarkh town in Aleppo northern countryside, where Turkish occupation forces-backed terrorist organizations are deployed. Local sources told SANA reporter that within the framework of the continuing infighting among terrorist organizations, an explosive device planted in a car belonging to a leader of the so-called “al-Jabha al-Shamia” went off on Tuesday ” in Shamarkh town in Aleppo northern countryside ,killing the terrorist immediately. Source: SANA