Author: Steven Sahiounie

According to an officer of the LPR People’s Militia Lisichansk was the last stronghold of the Ukrainian army on territory of the republic The People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) have entered Lisichansk and advanced to the Shakhter stadium, which is located near the city center, Vitaly Kiselev, an aide to the LPR Interior Minister, told TASS on Saturday. “Our units [LPR People’s Militia] have entered Lisichansk in the area of the Shakhter stadium,” Kiselev said, explaining that it is near the city center. Earlier, Commander of the Akhmat unit Apty Alaudinov, an aide to Chechen leader Ramzan…

Voters don’t want President Biden or former President Trump on the ballot in 2024, according to a new Harvard Center for American Political Studies and Harris Poll. A majority of people surveyed in late June spurned the possibility of a Biden and Trump rematch in the next presidential election, but the survey did find that Trump is on stronger footing with his base. Seven in 10 people polled said Biden should not seek a second term. 45% said Biden is a bad president while 30% said he’s too old.A quarter of people said it’s time for a change. Asked whether Biden…

Early on July 2, Malek Ashtar base of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was reportedly hit by at least two explosions. The London-based Iran International shared a video on social media of the reported explosions at the base that is located to the southeast of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Iranian official media and websites affiliated with the IRGC ignored the reports. However, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) claimed responsibility for the alleged explosions. In a statement, the group said that the explosions were orchestrated by what it called “revolutionary cells”. The MEK, which used large-scale violence…

On July 2, the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) deployed large reinforcements along the frontline with the town of Tell Rifaat in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo, which is held by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Sources in the SNA told the Anadolu Agency that the reinforcements were brought in from the town of Azaz, which is located a few kilometers to the north of Tel Rifaat. The reinforcements included dozens of truck-mounted heavy machine guns, armored vehicles, multiple rocket launchers and hundreds of militants. The Anadolu Agency said that the reinforcements were deployed near Tell Rifaat as…

An industrial support ship operating in the South China Sea has sunk in a storm with the possible loss of more than two dozen crew members, rescue services in Hong Kong said Saturday. Hong Kong and mainland Chinese rescuers have rushed to an area off southern China where a ship with a crew of 30 on board was snapped in two by strong waves created by Typhoon Chaba on July 2, 2022, South China Morning Post reported. The Hong Kong Government Flying Service sent a fixed-wing aircraft and two rescue helicopters to the scene, about 300km (186 miles) southwest of…

Protests were held in many Spanish towns and in Rabat in response to the deaths of 23 African migrants. Protests were organized in many Spanish towns and in Rabat late Friday in response to the deaths of 23 African migrants attempting to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla in northern Morocco. The United Nations condemned “excessive force” by police on the Moroccan-Spanish border and urged an inquiry into the deaths of the migrants who crossed the border. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Barcelona, Malaga, Vigo, and San Sebastian, as well as Melilla, to condemn migration policy and “border militarization”. A few dozen Moroccans…

The new $820 million package also includes four counter-artillery radars The US Department of Defense is providing an additional $820 million package of military aid for Ukraine, including two surface-to-air missile defense systems, Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale announced on Friday. This brings total US security assistance provided to Ukraine to approximately $6.9 billion since the start of Russia’s offensive in late February. The new deliveries will include ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition, and four additional counter-artillery radars. Breasseale stressed that Washington continues to…

Shelling came a few hours before senior Iranian diplomat was due to arrive in Syria Syria’s Defense Ministry has accused Israel of having injured two civilians in an airstrike on a village near the western port city of Tartus on Saturday. The military said Israeli warplanes flying over northern Lebanon had fired missiles toward several chicken farms in the village of Hamidiyeh, south of Tartus. The attack occurred a few kilometers north of the border with Lebanon in the early morning. According to Damascus, shelling also caused some damage to civilian infrastructure. The Israeli military, in line with long-standing practice,…

Turkey will conduct a military operation in the northern regions of Syria in an “understandable” way to the international community, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said while attending a press conference on the sideline of the NATO summit in Madrid on June 30. Answering a question about the international community reaction to any new Turkish operation in Syria, Erdogan added that Ankara has serious experience on the issue. “We will not carry out an operation that the international community does not understand. We will carry out the operation in the language the international community understands,” the Turkish president said. “Turkey has…

Andrey Melnik has slammed the signatories of an open letter which calls on the West to stop providing Ukraine with weapons Kiev’s ambassador to Berlin has insulted a group of German intellectuals, who penned an open letter advocating the end of arms deliveries to Ukraine. The signatories called on the West to make Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime negotiate peace. Commenting on their appeal, Andrey Melnik tweeted “Not again” on Thursday, adding in English: “What a bunch of pseudo-intellectual loosers (sic).” Referring to some of the signatories by their last names, Melnik suggested they “should go to hell with [their] defeatist advice.” The open letter, which…