Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that the Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have caused the escalation of tension. “The new escalation was caused by the Israeli army firing into the Gaza Strip on August 5,” said Zakharova in a statement, prompting the Palestinians to respond with a barrage of rocket attacks at Israel. The spokeswoman expressed Moscow’s deep concern about the outbreak of a new spiral of armed violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “We express deep concern about these developments, which could lead to the resumption of an all-out military confrontation and the further deterioration of the deplorable humanitarian…

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said Washington may have deliberately ratcheted up tensions in the region Beijing has suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) Taiwan visit may have been part of a ploy by the US aimed at creating a pretext to deploy more of its military to the region. In a statement made during his visit to Bangladesh and published on Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that “there are signs that the United States is trying to repeat its old tricks.” The diplomat clarified that Washington has a history of “creating a problem first, and then using it to…

The continuing military exercises include amphibious assault training The Chinese military said its drills around Taiwan will continue on Monday, despite initial plans announced last week that they will last until mid-Sunday. They were launched in response to a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The training on Monday will take place in the sea and airspace near the self-governed island, and will focus on anti-submarine and amphibious assault operations, a statement released by China’s Eastern Theater Command said. Monday’s prolongation of the training near Taiwan is the second announced by the People’s Liberation Army in…

The US has reportedly supplied Kiev Forces with advanced anti-radiation missiles in a bid to weaken air defenses providing cover to the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine. On August 7, Russian sources shared photos showing the remains of a US-made AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missile, that was allegedly launched by Kiev forces, near a position of the Russian military in an unspecified part of Ukraine. The AGM-88 was designed to detect, attack and destroy radar and transmitter. The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile’s nose.…

The US appears to be repeating the mistakes of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria With the US and its allies pledging unprecedented levels of military support to Ukraine, a recent CBS News report suggested that only around 30% of the weapons sent by the West actually make it to the front lines. The report adds to ongoing rumors of waste, corruption, and black market profiteering. The US has approved more than $54 billion of economic and military aid to Ukraine since February, while the UK has committed nearly $3 billion in military aid alone, and the EU has spent another $2.5…

The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Jihad, and other factions in the Gaza Strip have launched more than 780 rockets at Israel since the beginning of Operation Breaking Dawn, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced on August 7. According to the IDF, 270 rockets that were headed to populated areas were intercepted by the Iron Dome, with a near 97% success rate for the system. The IDF claimed that 180 rockets fell short in Gaza. A day earlier, Israel blamed a strike on the city of Jabalia that killed nine people, including four children, to a malfunctioning rocket that…

President Biden traveled to Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on Sunday, following his COVID-19 isolation. This is the first time the president has left the White House in 18 days and the first time he has seen first lady Jill Biden since July 20, according to the White House. “I’m feeling good,” the president told reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on Sunday. The president tested negative for the second time on Sunday morning, Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, wrote in a letter. The president tested negative on Saturday after seven straight days of testing positive from a “rebound” COVID case, the White House said.The…

La France Insoumise MP Clémentine Autain criticizes the French Foreign Ministry after it condemned the firing of rockets into “Israeli territory.” La France Insoumise MP Clémentine Autain harshly criticized the French government’s position on the recent Israeli aggression on Gaza, which she considered outrageous. According to Autain, “Israel” launched the most dramatic attack since 2021, and there are Palestinian deaths, while France is satisfied with a statement that equates the Israelis with the Palestinians. She slammed in a tweet the French government’s position on the Israeli aggression on Gaza as “scandalous”. France had reiterated its unconditional adherence to the security…

On August 7, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) destroyed a vehicle of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) near the town of Hakoura in the western part of the Greater Idlib region with an anti-tank guided missile. The strike killed three Syrian militants who were reportedly members of the TIP’s local division, which is known as Ansar al-Turkistan. The TIP, which is made up mainly of Chinese Uyghurs, maintains a large presence in the western part of Greater Idlib. The al-Ghab Plains in the northwestern Hama countryside, the town of Jisr al-Shughur in the western Idlib countryside, and the Kabani…

A depot housing Western-supplied ammunition has been destroyed in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed The Russian military has taken out a depot in southern Ukraine that stored NATO-supplied ammunition, the Defense Ministry claimed on Sunday. “In the Voznesensk area of the Nikolaev region an arsenal that stored 45,000 tons of ammunition recently supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by NATO countries has been destroyed,” the ministry stated, adding that Russian forces eliminated five other ammo depots. Meanwhile, the Russian army conducted strikes on the deployment point of units of Ukraine’s 72nd mechanized brigade at an agricultural facility in the Donetsk…