Author: Steven Sahiounie

Indifference might be something Vladimir Putin is counting on, the Polish prime minister said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned on Monday that growing fatigue with the Ukraine crisis among Western populations might be something Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on. Speaking to Polska Times, the prime minister said that while the Polish population was closely following developments in Ukraine, the same isn’t true for the West in general. For that reason, Western leadership is doing its best to revive public interest in the matter, he added. “This is very important, because Western communities must understand that this war is also about their…

Protocols on accession of Finland, Sweden to be signed on July 5, countries will enter alliance after their ratification. According to the NATO press release, allies will sign the Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden on July 5, 2022. No media are allowed to cover the procedure. Then, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg, will give a joint press conference with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Mr. Pekka Haavisto, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Ms Ann Linde, at NATO Headquarters. On Monday, 04 July 2022, NATO Headquarters will host accession talks between NATO officials…

The Russian city of Belgorod located 30 kilometers from the border with Ukraine since has been constantly shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine February 24. However, the last night has become the most dangerous for the city residents since the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. At about 3 a.m. local time, the Ukrainian military launched massive strikes on the city of Belgorod. As a result of the shelling, at least 5 civilians were killed, about 5 more were injured, including a 10-year-old child. According to Russian media, 3 members of a family from Kharkov, who moved…

On July 3, two soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were wounded when a Turkish drone targeted a position they were manning in the center of the town of Tell Rifaat in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo. Tell Rifaat is held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). However, the SAA maintains a large presence in the town and its surroundings. A few units of the Russian Military Police are also deployed there. The drone strike on the SAA position was followed by a second strike that targeted a house in the outskirt of Tell Rifaat. At the…

A Logistical convoy of the US forces in Iraq’s Saladin was attacked on Sunday, according to Iraqi news outlets. According to “Sabrin News” telegram channel, today (Sunday, July 3) at noon, a logistics convoy of the American army was targeted in “Makishefa” area of Saladin, in the country’s south. Details of the damage or possible casualties of this operation have not yet been published. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Anti-US sentiments have intensified in Iraq since the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in 2020. General Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force…

Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson refused Sunday to deny Turkey’s claim that it had promised to deport individuals sought by Ankara as part of Stockholm’s efforts to join NATO. Despite questioning by journalists and concerns among Kurdish and Turkish refugees in Sweden, Andersson would not say whether such a commitment had been given to Ankara for it to lift objections to Sweden’s membership. “I’ve been a minister for eight years and I never talked about what is said in the negotiation room,” she said, AFP reported. “(That) actually puts me in a bit of a difficult situation right now,” she…

The idea of nuclear weapons deployment was inspired by a similar approach by Poland to the US, President Lukashenko said The idea of returning nuclear weapons to Belarus was prompted by Poland’s wish to deploy atomic weapons from the US on its territory, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko explained on Saturday. “This topic with the President of Russia appeared after the Poles turned to the Americans and asked them to bring nuclear weapons to Poland. Then I told President Putin: ‘Why are we pretending that nothing is happening?’” Lukashenko said in his Independence Day speech in Minsk, the nation’s capital. …

The Israeli aggression perpetrated in the early hours on Saturday morning against Hamidieh town, in the south of the Syrian province of Tartous, caused injuries to two civilians and massive material damage to the irrigation and electricity networks, and the citizens’ private properties. SANA’s camera toured the villages affected by the aggression and monitored the extent of the damage caused by it. The director of Water Resources of the province, Muhammad Mahrez, told SANA that the aggression destroyed three irrigation channels irrigating approximately 100 hectares. He revealed that the damage is estimated at about 50 million Syrian pounds. For his…

On July 2, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had intercepted three drones launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah near the disputed Karish naval gas field. In a statement, the IDF said that one of the drones was shot down by an F-16 fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force, while the other two were shot down with Barak missiles launched from the Israeli Navy’s Sa’ar 5-class corvette Eilat. The drones were “identified at an early stage and monitored throughout their flight by air control units” and “intercepted at the most appropriate operational point”. According to the IDF, a…

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday gave the bullet that killed the Palestinian American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to U.S. security coordinator Lt. Gen. Mike Fenzel, senior Israeli officials told Axios. The Palestinian attorney general told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian Authority decided to hand over the bullet to the U.S. in order to do a ballistics test to see if it matches the guns that were used by Israeli soldiers on May 11 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where Abu Akleh was killed. Israeli officials said they expect the results of the ballistics test will be ready…