Author: Steven Sahiounie

On July 31, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of attacking its military positions in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. In a statement, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense said that Armenian forces opened fire at its positions in Gadabay, Kalbajar and Khojavend. The ministry didn’t report any casualties or material losses were as a result of the alleged Armenian attack. “Starting from the evening of July 30 and during the night of July 31, the Armenian armed forces units using small arms subjected to intensive fire the Azerbaijan Army positions stationed in direction of the Gadabay and Kalbajar regions of the state border.Moreover,…

The Iranian Border Police units and the Taliban forces exchanged fire at a border region in east of Iran on Sunday. Reports suggest that the armed clashes broke out on Sunday noon in Hirmand border region, near the Iranian city of Doost Mohammad, which is located 30 km northeast of Zabol in the province of Sistan and Balouchestan. The exchange of fire between the two sides flared up for minutes after the Taliban forces fired bullets at the houses on the eastern outskirts of Doost Mohammad. A number of Afghan sources have reported that a Taliban fighter was killed and…

The Kiev regime continues terrorist attacks against civilians in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling residential areas in the city of Donetsk and on its outskirts with anti-personnel mines. On the morning of July 31, projectiles with scatterable anti-personnel land mines Lepestok (also known as Green Parrot or Butterfly Mines, PFM-1) hit the village of Skochinsky mine and the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. On July 31, the AFU mined the very center of the city of Donetsk. PFM-1 were shelled at the intersection of Vatutin Avenue and Universitetskaya street. There were civilians on the…

Aleksandar Vucic has urged Pristina and Western powers to avoid conflict, but vowed to use force if Serbs are persecuted Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has issued a plea for peace in Kosovo amid rising tensions with Pristina. However, he also vowed to fight to the death if ethnic Serbs in the self-proclaimed republic are targeted for another pogrom. “The atmosphere has been heated up, and the Serbs will not suffer any more atrocities,” Vucic said in Belgrade on Sunday. “My plea to everyone is to try to keep the peace at almost any cost. I am asking the Albanians to come to their senses,…

Two citizens were injured on Saturday in an artillery attack launched by the Turkish regime forces on the vicinity of Tal Tamir, northwest of Hasaka. Local sources told SANA reporter that “On Saturday evening, the artillery of the Turkish occupation attacked with a number of shells al-Salmasa, in the vicinity of Tal Tamir in the northwestern countryside, injuring two citizens and causing material damage to the people’s property and infrastructure in the area.” On Friday, the Turkish occupation forces attacked the village of Mulla Abbas in al-Qahtanyia township in Hasaka northern countryside, causing material damage. Source: SANA

Part of Beirut port’s silos in Lebanon, which were damaged in the 2020 blast, has collapsed. Part of Beirut port’s massive grain silos collapsed on Sunday following a fire that has been burning for weeks. Footage posted on social media platforms showed the section collapsing and causing a giant dust cloud in what sounded like an explosion, Deutsche Welle reported. Most of the port’s silos were severely damaged during the 2020 blast that rocked the city. The northern block, which collapsed on Sunday, had shielded the western part of the city from the explosion that killed more than 200 people and wounded over 6,000 others…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On Friday, Tunisia’s foreign ministry summoned an official from the US Embassy after Secretary of State Antony Blinken caste aspersions on Tunisia’s democracy. Othman Jerandi, Tunisia’s Foreign Minister, told Natasha Franceschi, US acting chargé d’affaires that the statement was an unacceptable “interference in the national internal affairs”. On Thursday, Blinken had said, “Tunisia has experienced an alarming erosion of democratic norms over the past year and reversed many of the Tunisian people’s hard-won gains since 2011.” Blinken’s assessment was in response to the new constitution giving President Kais Saied more power than the 2014…

Dozens of neo-Nazis have been eliminated over the last two days, including fighters from the Kraken formation, the military said Russia’s armed forces destroyed an ‘elite assault battalion’ of the Ukrainian president and dozens of fighters from the notorious Kraken neo-Nazi formation, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday. Providing an update on the progress of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Konashenkov said that on July 28, at the Krasnoarmeysk railway station in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian military conducted a direct strike “with a high-precision air-based weapon” on a train transporting “an elite assault…

At the same time, the source noted that the real discussion regarding the new Secretary General “will not begin until next year, considering the rapidly changing situation” Outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson does not have a single chance to become a NATO Secretary General candidate, a source in Brussels international institutions told TASS Saturday, adding that Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is currently being considered the most optimal option. “Johnson has no chances even to challenge the NATO Secretary General’s office for three reasons. The first one is his role in the Brexit process, and implementation of the Northern Ireland…

On July 30, militants from the Liberation and Building Movement, a coalition within the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, attacked several positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) near the village of Tadef in the northern Aleppo countryside. Tadef is located around a kilometer to the south of the town of al-Bab, the main stronghold of Turkey’s proxies in northern Syria. Turkish-backed militants shelled SAA positions with mortars and other heavy weapons then clashed with army personnel for around an hour. The militants claimed they have destroyed a field headquarters, a mortar post, a fortified position and a machine gun of…