Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russian forces used advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to fire on Israeli jets during the Zionist regime’s air attack on targets in northwestern Syria last week, Israel’s Channel 13 news said Monday. “For the first time since the beginning of the attacks on Syria, a Russian air defense system fired an S-300 missile toward an (Israeli) air force aircraft,” Israeli Channel 13 quoted military affairs commentator Alon Ben David as saying. The Russian ministry of defense had revealed Saturday that Israeli F-16s fired 22 missiles toward a Syrian scientific research center in Masyaf and the Baniyas port, which were intercepted. The air defense…

The US Air Force called the trial a ‘major accomplishment’ after a series of failed launch tests The US military said it successfully tested a hypersonic missile system, claiming the new weapon reached speeds greater than five times the speed of sound. It marked the first successful launch of the prototype following three failed tests. The Air Force announced the test on Monday, saying it was conducted over the weekend near Edwards Air Force Base in California. The trial saw a B-52 Stratofortress bomber release an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) off California’s southern coast. “Following separation from the aircraft, the…

FM Ann Linde signed the request after the government decided to seek membership of the US-led bloc Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde has signed a formal request to NATO to accept the country as a member, the country’s mission to the military alliance reported on Tuesday. The government made the decision one day earlier. Linde said that signing the application “felt big and serious” in terms of the historic significance of the move. Sweden had maintained military neutrality since the Napoleonic Wars, and did not join NATO during the Cold War. The minister said the application will be submitted to NATO along…

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed in his video address that an evacuation of national troops from Azovstal steelmaking complex in Mariupol had started. “… we cherish a hope that we will be able to save the lives of our boys,” Zelensky said. “There are severely wounded ones among them and they need medical attendance.” The Ukrainian president said that Kiev hoped to return all of them to their country as soon as possible. “The work is underway to return boys back home, but this work is very delicate and time-consuming,” he added. The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that…

Opponents of the country have “stolen” our money and use Ukrainian proxies to hurt us, the Kremlin spokesman said Western powers opposing Russia in Ukraine could be considered enemies waging a war against the state, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He said economic sanctions, the arming of Ukrainian nationalists and giving them intel to attack Russian troops all amounted to acts of war. “Sure, we are still using the mild term ‘unfriendly states’ when referring to them,” Peskov told an educational forum. But I would say they are hostile states, because what they do is war. He cited the…

A woman was killed and nearly a dozen others were wounded in a bomb blast in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, police said on Monday. An explosion ripped through the Bombay Bazar in Karachi’s Kharadar area on Monday evening, injuring several people, local media reported. The blast occurred in the densely populated Kharadar area of the city, according to eyewitnesses. It appeared to target a police patrol. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a senior police official said it could have been carried out by the same group that claimed last week’s blast in the nearby…

Several rocket shells targeted US occupation base in al-Shadadi area, Hasaka southern countryside. Local sources told SANA reporter that before midnight on Monday, a rocket hit al-Jibsa residential complexes where the US base is present , and another rocket hit the directorate of al-Jibsa oil fields used by the occupation to manufacture drones for QSD militia. The sources pointed out that the sirens of the ambulances were heard while the occupier’s aircraft flew over the area and there was a mobilization among the armed SDF militia. Source: SANA

Over one million Palestinians have been detained by the Israeli regime since the ‘Nakba’ in 1948, which marked the loss of the Palestinian homeland, a prisoners advocacy group said. The director of the Palestinian Center for Prisoners Studies Riad al-Ashqar said on Sunday the Israel Prison Service (IPS) has been committing brutal crimes against Palestinian prisoners, including women, children, and the elderly. Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe physical and psychological torture during the arrest, at interrogation centers, and in jails, he said. According to the center, nearly 230 Palestinians have been killed as a result of torture and medical…

On the night of May 16, several explosions occurred in the Ukraine’s capital Kiev. The first publications about the explosions appeared at about 1 a.m. local time. At the same time, there were no reports on the Russian missile strikes in the Kiev region. No military facilities are located in the area. There was no air alert in the capital. The explosions took place near the “Epicenter” shopping center in Kiev, which is located in the Obolonsky district of the capital. Local sources reported that there were no alarms. A strong smell of burning could be heard in the area.…

Hundreds of people gathered near Incirlik Air Base in the southern Turkish province of Adana on Sunday to voice their opposition to the military presence of the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). About hundreds of meters away from the base, protesters were chanting slogans and holding banners reading “Get out NATO. This land is ours.” Some protesters believe that NATO, being a military alliance, has led to massive numbers of bloodshed in the neighboring areas.”We did not come here to say good words, but to hold (NATO) accountable on behalf of the people of the world. Down with NATO.…