Author: Steven Sahiounie

Taiwan has performed a series of military services drills aimed at repelling a likely Chinese incursion amid soaring tensions with the mainland, as very well as reports that a leading US lawmaker wants to take a look at the island someday in the coming weeks. Air raid sirens were listened to throughout the island’s capital of Taipei on Monday as the once-a-year ‘Wanan’ drills kicked off, such as joint air and sea workouts and the mobilization of soldiers and armored automobiles – all meant to simulate an attack by Beijing, RT reported. Speaking to reporters about the drills, Taipei Mayor…

BY TYLER DURDEN Several FBI whistleblowers say that the agency’s probe into Hunter Biden was internally sabotaged during the 2020 election in order to derail the investigation, after agents wrongfully deemed verified evidence as “disinformation” to ignore. According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), agents investigating Hunter “opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” adding that his office received “a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers” regarding the investigation. Grassley added that “verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden…

Two explosive devices exploded in two cars at al-Shuaib village in Jarablus , Aleppo countryside where Turkish occupation – backed  terrorist organizations are deployed. Local sources told SANA reporter that the two explosions caused material damages to the place and the burning of the two cars. The sources added that the two explosions came in the context of the ongoing infighting among terrorist organizations groups affiliated with the Turkish occupation to seize the areas they spread, stole goods and control the illegitimate routes for smuggling towards the Turkish territories. Source: SANA

The Chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard sovereignty and territorial integrity if the United States insists on going ahead with its House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday. “The Chinese side has repeatedly made clear to the U.S. side our serious concern over Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan and our firm opposition to the visit,” spokesperson Zhao Lijian told a regular news briefing. “We are fully prepared for any eventuality,” he said. The United States must assume full responsibility for any serious consequence arising thereof, Zhao added.…

Syria on Monday handed over a total of 146 Tajik nationals, who are family members of Islamic State (IS) militants, to their home country, according to the state news agency SANA. Zabidullah Zabidov, the ambassador of Tajikistan in Kuwait, was in Syria on Monday to take the Tajik nationals, who had been accommodated in the al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria. The al-Hol camp, which is run by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is known to be housing refugees, largely family members of foreign IS militants. Zabidov said that the Tajik side had taken the necessary measures and arrangements for…

West Jerusalem’s rhetoric has been unconstructive and unobjective, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova says Moscow considers Israel’s anti-Russian stance on the Ukrainian conflict regrettable, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. During a TV talk show appearance on Tuesday, she noted that West Jerusalem’s recent rhetoric was “absolutely unconstructive” and “unobjective.” Relations between Russia and Israel have soured since the launch of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, and Zakharova drew attention to the fact that this “did not happen by itself.” “In recent months we have heard absolutely unconstructive and, most importantly, biased rhetoric from Tel Aviv,” Zakharova stated. She noted that anti-Russian assessments coming from…

Four people are injured after the attack in Russia’s Bryansk Region, Aleksandr Bogomaz says A Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device onto a border checkpoint in Russia’s Bryansk Region on Tuesday, injuring four people, according to the local governor. The wounded have been hospitalized with light and moderate injuries, Aleksandr Bogomaz said. The Troebortnoye checkpoint was hit by a quadcopter UAV, the governor wrote on Telegram. The same checkpoint had already been targeted with mortar attacks by the Ukrainian forces in April and May. In late June, two Ukrainian kamikaze drones smashed into an oil refinery in southern Russia’s Rostov…

On July 25th, the the military of the Donetsk People’s Republic declared the beginning of mop up operations in the Vuhlehirska power station located on the western outskirts of the city of Svetlodarsk. The first reports about the Russian military operations on the territory of the plant came late on July 24th. So far, the TPP reportedly remains under control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the reports from the area, the Ukrainian command left the area of the power plant and only small groups of Ukrainian servicemen continue fighting. Russian military reporters are already working near the…

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is claiming that just because the US GDP report is negative, it does not mean the world’s largest economy is in recession, a claim that has no economic foundations whatsoever. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has denied that the US economy is in recession, saying instead that the nation is experiencing a “necessary and appropriate” slowdown. Yellen, in an NBC News interview on Sunday, defended Biden’s economic policies, claiming that just because the US GDP report is negative, it does not mean the world’s largest economy is in recession.  The report, which may confirm that the economy…

Threats from China shouldn’t stop U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from visiting Taiwan, analysts on the self-governing island say. The news of Pelosi’s potential trip to Taiwan has sparked heated rhetoric from Beijing and concerns among Biden administration officials that the dispute could spiral into a cross-strait crisis. The Chinese foreign ministry said China would take “forceful measures” if the visit occurs and communicated privately to the U.S. that a military response was possible, the Financial Times reported. President Biden, meanwhile, said the U.S. military thinks such a trip is “not a good idea right now.”Pelosi, who has not confirmed the trip, said last week that she believes “it’s important…