Author: Steven Sahiounie

A number of US-backed SDF militiamen were killed in an attack targeting a military point north of Raqqa city. Local sources told SANA that unknown individuals carried out an attack with machine-gun that targeted a military point of the SDF militia near the town of Tal al-Saman, north of Raqqa, killing a number of the militia members and causing a huge material damage to the military point. Source: SANA

Following the ramming incident in Pennsylvania, the assailant flees the scene and assaults a woman, beating her to death. According to a US media report, over a dozen people were wounded in Berwick, Pennsylvania, after a vehicle struck a crowd commemorating victims of a deadly house fire that left 10 dead last week. Pennsylvania’s WBRE television station reported that the incident took place at 6:30 pm local time (22:30 GMT) on Saturday outside the restaurant, Intoxicology Department. Spokeswoman for Geisinger Medical Center Natalie Buyny disclosed to NBC in a statement that there were 13 injured people following the incident, adding, “As of 8:30 p.m.…

Legislators headed by Senator Ed Markey will visit the island as part of a trip to the Indo-Pacific region A US congressional delegation will visit Taiwan from August 14 to 15, the American Institute in Taiwan (the de facto US embassy, which has the status of a non-commercial organization) said in a statement on Sunday. Legislators headed by Senator Ed Markey will visit the island as part of a trip to the Indo-Pacific region, the statement said. “The delegation will meet with senior Taiwan leaders to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security, trade and investment, global supply chains, climate change, and…

On August 13, the settlement of Peski in the DPR was fully liberated as a result of offensive operations by the allied forces of the Donbass republics and the Russian army The Russian armed forces have liberated the settlement of Udy in the Kharkov Region as a result of offensive operations, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Sunday. “As a result of offensive operations by the Russian armed forces, the settlement of Udy in the Kharkov Region has been completely liberated,” the spokesman said. On August 13, the settlement of Peski in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)…

On August 14, the Afrin Liberation Forces (ALF) announced that its cells in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo had carried out two new attacks against the Turkish military and its proxies. “In the face of the [recent] attacks by the Turkish occupation army, retaliatory attacks were carried out in both Al-Bab and Marea regions, within the framework of legitimate defense,” the Kurdish guerilla group said in a statement. The first attack took place on August 11 and targeted a vehicle carrying Turkish-backed militants near Marea. Three militants were killed and two others were wounded as a result of the…

One person is dead and another 26 are wounded, according to Armenian authorities An explosion rocked a shopping plaza in the Armenian capital on Sunday, resulting in several casualties, according to the nation’s Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to the health ministry’s preliminary data, one person has died and another 26 were injured in the blast at the Surmalu shopping plaza in Yerevan. The city administration has said that there are some people stuck under the rubble and that a rescue operation is underway. The ministry said that the explosion in the mall was followed by a fire, with videos…

In response to the continuous crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians, a Palestinian carried out a heroic operation at dawn today in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, injuring nine Israeli settlers. Palestinian media reported that a Palestinian youth shot at a bus carrying Israeli settlers near the al-Buraq Wall, the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the town, wounding nine of them. The Palestinian resistance factions affirmed that this heroic and brave operation is a response to the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers and their daily crimes against the Palestinian people and their Islamic and…

At least 35 people were killed and 25 others injured after a huge blaze erupted at a church during a Sunday service. It’s feared many of the victims are children and the death toll could rise as flames tore through the Abu Seifeng Church in Egypt. It’s reported the congregation had just finished prayer when the blaze broke out, Al-Hadath reported. Several ambulances were rushed to the scene in Giza as firefighters battled to extinguish the raging flames. According to local media, many of the victims are thought to be children as there is a nursery inside the church. Shocking pictures…

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had suspended joint operations with the US-led coalition against ISIS cells in Syria’s northeastern region, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on August 13. “The SDF suspended joint operations with the international coalition against the terrorist organization, ISIS, six days ago,” the London-based monitoring group said in a report. The decision to suspend counter-terrorism operations with the coalition was taken in protest to recent Turkish drone strikes on northern and northeastern Syria which claimed the lives of some personnel of the SDF. According to the SOHR, 51 Turkish drone strikes targeted SDF-held…

More than two-thirds of the alliance’s members have now agreed to the accession of Finland and Sweden French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed the official documents approving the applications of Finland and Sweden to become NATO members. While Macron once called the US-led military bloc “brain dead,” he has switched tack since Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine. France’s parliament approved the enlargement proposal earlier this month, after the two Nordic nations applied to join the alliance in May. By petitioning the Western bloc for membership, both renounced their prior non-alignment, with Finland officially having been neutral since shortly after…