Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Sadrist Movement is coordinating and organizing the entry of demonstrators into the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, as well as Parliament. Supporters of the Iraqi Sadrist Movement have once again stormed the Iraqi parliament in the Green Zone, Baghdad, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported, noting that the Sadrist Movement itself was organizing the entry of protestors into the Green Zone. Demonstrators are still storming parliament for the second time this week to protest the Coordination Framework’s nomination for Prime Minister. The demonstrators also renewed their rejection of the proposed PM Mohammad Shiya Al-Sudani, who was nominated for this position by the…

An explosive device on Saturday went off in a Kia Rio car at Khirbat Ghazaleh roundabout on the entrance of Daraa north-eastern entrance leading to Damascus-Daraa highway. A police source told SANA that ambulances and fire engines rushed to the place of the explosion and put out the fires. No casualties were reported and losses were limited to materials. Source: SANA

On July 29, ISIS’s official news agency, Amaq, released photos documenting the activities of the terrorist group’s cells in Syria’s central region, where an insurgency against government forces and their allies have been ongoing for a few years now. Some of the photos released by Amaq show ISIS terrorists going around their daily activities, for example cooking, sewing, cleaning their weapons and training. Other photos show the terrorists during recent attacks on government forces. One particular photo shows two Russian Ka-52 attack helicopters, which were apparently hunting for ISIS terrorists in the central region. ISIS insurgency in central Syria slowed…

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has recently arrested a citizen of Sweden for “espionage” charges, the ministry announced in a statement on Saturday. The detainee had some “suspicious behavior and communication during his previous multiple trips to Iran,” according to the statement. The ministry noted that the suspect had communicated with a number of “European and non-European suspicious elements who were under surveillance in Iran.” The suspect entered Iran a few months ago “after the arrest of another European spy, with the mission of obtaining information on how the identity of that spy had revealed and the type and amount of…

Yemeni sources reported this Saturday that the Saudi coalition had violated the Yemeni ceasefire 155 times in the last 24 hours. The ceasefire in Yemen, which has been repeatedly violated by the aggressor Saudi coalition, was extended for another two months following the UN consultations to renew it, but the Saudi coalition violates it every day. According to the official Yemeni news agency (Saba) report on Saturday, the Saudi coalition violated the UN ceasefire by carrying out reconnaissance flights over Hodeidah, Marib, Taiz, Hajjah’s provinces Jouf, Saada, Dhaleh, and the border operational axes. According to this report, the Saudi coalition…

Despite Russia’s repeated warnings, NATO plans to hold military exercises near the Russian border with the presence of the Royal Air Force and the British Army. The British Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that about 150 Royal Air Force and British Army (RAF), along with the armed forces of the United States and Finland, have been deployed for a training exercise in Finland near the Russian border. The British newspaper “Independent” reported that the NATO exercise called “Exercise Vigilant Fox” includes more than 750 soldiers from England, America, and Finland, which this week in “Niinisalu” in western Finland to…

China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the US House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. The ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, was conducting “live-fire exercises” near the Pingtan islands off Fujian province from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the official Xinhua News Agency said. The Maritime Safety Administration warned ships to avoid the area. Such exercises usually involve artillery. The one-sentence announcement gave no indication whether Saturday’s exercise also might include…

The deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation reports on Al-Nusra Front bombings in the de-escalation zone in Idlib. The Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria announced Wednesday evening that the militants of the Al-Nusra Front organization carried out eight bombing operations in the de-escalation zone in Idlib in northwest Syria. Yevgeny Gerasimov, deputy chief of the Center, said that eight bombings by the terrorist Al-Nusra Front group were recorded in the de-escalation zone in Idlib. Gerasimov indicated that six bombings were recorded in the Aleppo governorate and one bombing each in Idlib and Latakia governorates. A few days ago, the Hay’at…

In the early morning of July 29, Kiev’s forces shelled a detention center for Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in the village of Elenovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The blow was struck precisely at the barracks in which the captured soldiers of the Ukrainian Nazi Azov regiment were held. The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the attack. According to the Russia’s Defense Ministry and local authorities, Ukrainian troops used US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to strike the detention center. Initially, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 40 Ukrainian POWs were killed and 75 others were injured. Later, the DPR territorial…

US-made HIMARS are “a good first step,” but Kiev needs the means to take accurate shots, a senior Ukrainian official has said The deliveries of US-made HIMARS rocket systems are “a good first step”, but the West did not provide Kiev with the necessary technologies to accurately hit targets, a high-ranking Ukrainian official complained in an interview published on Thursday. “HIMARS and heavy artillery are a good first step, but if we do not have the technology to find and correct targets for artillery strikes, then we’re just shooting blind,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal…