Author: Steven Sahiounie

When Kiev’s guilt in attacks on a maternity hospital cannot be denied, it’s simply brushed under the carpet By Eva Bartlett Following intense Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk on June 13, some Western media sources, in tandem with outlets in Kiev, unsurprisingly claimed that the attack – which killed at least five civilians and struck a busy maternity hospital – was perpetrated by Russian forces. Why Moscow would launch rockets at its own allies wasn’t explained, nor would it make much sense. The Donetsk People’s Republic’s foreign ministry reported: “Such an unprecedented. in terms of power, density and duration of fire, raid on the DPR…

Josep Borrell yet again stressed Brussels’ position that “it is not the European sanctions which are creating this crisis” Anyone who wants to buy Russian food products and fertilizers can do so without any obstacles, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said upon arriving at a meeting of EU top diplomats in Luxembourg on Monday. He also stressed that the EU fully supports “the United Nations’ efforts to deblock the [grain] exports from Ukraine” within the framework of consultations between Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. “And I hope <…> that the United Nations will at the…

The Israeli regime’s prime minister and foreign minister have decided to vote on dissolving the Knesset next week. The regime’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have agreed to hold a vote on dissolving the Knesset next week. If the vote passes, Lapid will become the interim prime minister, according to the Israeli media. Bennett and Lapid said in a joint statement that they had “exhausted options to stabilize” their diverse coalition, a year after it was established. If the bill passes, it will result in the Israeli regime’s fifth general election in around three and a…

A mass shooting in Harlem took the life of a 21-year-old and caused injuries to eight others on Sunday night. One person died and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting in the Harlem neighborhood of New York on Sunday night, according to NYPD Chief Brian McGee. “Early this morning police responded to the report about numerous people being shot … There are a total of nine people being shot,” McGee said. One male, a 21-year-old, was taken to Lincoln Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The circumstances that caused the shooting remained under investigation later in…

A bomb exploded in a district bazaar in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Monday, killing two people and injuring 28, including a provincial health official. The incident occurred in Ghani Khil district in the morning and the wounded were transported to hospitals, district chief Mawlawi Seddiqullah told Xinhua. The blast took place when the vehicle of the district hospital chairman Hijratullah was passing by the area, the official said, adding that he was wounded in the incident. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. In recent months, the country has been hit by a series of…

At least 13 people were killed, among them two civilians and 11 soldiers, and several others injured when a terrorist attack targeted a civilian transit bus in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah. Citing an unnamed military source, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that 11 government troops and two civilians were killed in the explosion that happened at around 6:30 a.m. local time (0330 GMT) on Monday when the bus was traveling in the Jabal al-Bishri region and along the road linking Raqqah and Homs, adding that another three soldiers were wounded in the terrorist attack. There was no…

Oil imports accounted for about 62 percent of the Asian economic giant’s total crude consumption in 2021. Warm ties with Moscow, discounts offered by Russian producers, and threats by the United States and its allies to cut access to sea-based trade routes have prompted Beijing to look to its northern neighbor for more and more of its energy needs. China’s imports of Russian oil surpassed those from Saudi Arabia in May, jumping 55 percent year-on-year and setting a new record, according to data published by the Chinese General Administration of Customs. Russian oil accounted for 8.42 million metric tons of the People’s…

The bloc should be prepared to introduce ‘anti-missile protection’ over Ukraine to defend its borders and Western weapons supplies, Stanislaw Koziej said The former head of the Polish National Security Bureau, General Stanislaw Koziej, has called on NATO to deliver an ultimatum to Russia: either Moscow stops missile strikes in the western parts of Ukraine near NATO borders or the alliance imposes “anti-missile protection” over Ukraine. In an interview with the Polish web portal Onet last week, Koziej, who was Poland’s national security chief between 2010 and 2015, said that NATO should protect the military equipment that Western countries are sending to…

An Iraqi security source said that at least three explosions have rocked the capital city of Baghdad. On Sunday, an Iraqi security source revealed details of an explosive device explosion near the headquarters of the National Intelligence Service in the center of the capital. The same source indicated that a homemade explosive device was placed near the fence of a security headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service near the Oyoun Baghdad restaurant on Al-Masbah Street in central Baghdad. It exploded this morning, causing material damage, according to the Iraqi Dijla channel. The source confirmed that the explosion did not result…

Kurdish, pro-government and Iranian-backed formations had established a joint operations room called the “North Thunderbolt” in Syria’s Aleppo to coordinate against Turkey, the Al-Monitor reported on June 19. The operations room, which was established on May 25, is headquarters at a Russian base in the village of Hardatnin in the northern countryside of Aleppo. The move came amid preparations by the Turkish military and its proxies to launched a new operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). President Recent Tayyip Erdogan said in a recent speech that the main targets of the operation will be the towns of Tell Rifaat and…