Author: Steven Sahiounie

A European official says the Vienna talks will likely be resumed on Tuesday. A European official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Vienna talks would likely be resumed Tuesday. Also, the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said on Sunday that he will soon return to Vienna for the next round of talks, and said that the deal could still be revived. “President (Joe) Biden still wants us to negotiate in Vienna,” Malley told MSNBC in an interview on Sunday night. Malley further said that the US team will return to Vienna next week. The US administration made the decision…

Primaries for Israel’s largest political party are supposed to take place in May and the media is already discussing potential successors of the former PM. The ex-prime minister’s position is currently secure, but for how long that remains the case is uncertain. A plea bargain between former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the prosecution, in which he would evade a prison sentence in exchange for abstaining from politics for the next seven years, seems to be off the table. Netanyahu, who is currently on trial for charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in a series of graft probes,…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States is working to make necessary preparations for large-scale refugee and migrant crises that might arise amid the escalation of the situation around Ukraine, US broadcaster Fox News reported Sunday, citing a source familiar with the matter. European countries were also reported to be discussing possible housing and migration flows of displaced Ukrainians who will presumably flee to other European regions, the source added. Fox also reported, citing congressional sources, that Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley held a closed-door briefing with unnamed lawmakers, informing them that Kiev would fall within 72 hours…

The Palestinian prisoners’ movement calls for mass mobilization, announcing that the regulatory bodies will be dissolved on Monday. The Palestinian prisoners’ movement in occupied Palestine said that the Israeli occupation prison system is reneging on the agreements reached following Operation Freedom Tunnel. In a statement, the movement stressed that the Israeli administration is imposing new penalties on Palestinian prisoners who are already suffering from the Israeli occupation authorities and their prison administration’s use of repressive and abusive measures against Palestinian prisoners in an attempt to deplete their steadfastness and break their will. It is worth mentioning that Palestinian prisoners are subjected to organized…

On February 6, a new wave of Russian airstrikes hit the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib where several terrorist groups are active. The airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Kafer Shalaya in the southern countryside of Idlib. The town is located some 14 kilometers away from one of the main frontlines with Syrian government forces. Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Kafer Shalaya and the nearby town of al-Rami on February 3. The airstrikes took place a few hours after a US counter-terrorism raid that ended with the death of ISIS top leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. The…

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- the Israeli Occupation forces arrested on Sunday six Palestinians in different area in the West Bank. Wafa News Agency reported that the occupation forces stormed Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem and the town of Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem, and arrested six Palestinians. on Saturday, the occupation forces arrested six Palestinians in the West Bank. Source: SANA

Relations between Ankara and Tel Aviv began to sour in 2008, following an Israeli military campaign in Gaza. In 2010, the fallout continued after the Mavi Marmara incident when ten Turkish nationals were killed by the IDF as they tried to break a naval blockade of the Strip. Last week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is expected to visit Turkey in mid-March as both countries are looking to improve their strained bilateral ties. Turning a New Page Dr Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, a Turkey expert at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and the…

A heartbreaking conclusion to a brief story of hope, whose hero is a child who has united the hearts of millions of people all over the world. Morocco was overwhelmed with tremendous grief on Sunday as emergency services discovered five-year-old Rayan Oram at the bottom of a well, bringing a tragic end to a five-day rescue operation that engulfed the country and the rest of the world. The plight of “little Rayan” since he fell down the well on Tuesday afternoon has united the Arab world and triggered a massive outpouring of sympathy, with the Arabic hashtag #SaveRayan trending on social media. Moroccan Authorities…

Hasaka, SANA-The US occupation backed-SDF militia has continued its violation against the locals as it prevented on Sunday 2,500 students of Agriculture Faculty in al-Kallasa neighborhood, Hasaka city from taking their exams. Dr. Jamal al-Abdullah, Director of al-Furat University branch in Hasaka, said that SDF militia prevented 2500 male and female students, the teaching staff and the administrative cadre from entering the faculty. He noted that the university branch is trying to solve the problem of preventing the students from taking their exams. Al-Abdullah added “despite all the difficulties, the university branch resumed university exams in the colleges and institutes…

Yemen’s government voices its concern against the UN’s neglect of its duties regarding to FSO Safer leak. Yemen’s government said it was disappointed with the UN for its disregard of its commitments to FSO Safer, and its attempts to back out of the execution of the immediate maintenance agreement, warning of an impending environmental disaster in the Red Sea. The FSO Safer committee in Yemen warned that the UN bears responsibility for an explosion in the tanker and the possible ensuing environmental disaster, warning that such an explosion would cause an unprecedented environmental disaster in the Red Sea. The committee also added…