Author: Steven Sahiounie

Turkey’s annual inflation rate in January reached its highest level since April 2002, official data revealed on Thursday. After a currency crisis ravaged the people’s purchasing power, Turkey’s annual inflation rate in January hit its highest level since April 2002, according to official figures released on Thursday. According to the Turkish statistics office, consumer prices increased by 48.7% in January compared to the same period the previous year, up from 36.1% in December. The results were released just days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed a new director of the state statistics agency for the fourth time in 2019. Erdogan’s path…

Not surprisingly, the donors who campaigned for US President Joe Biden do not want the support for the war on Yemen to end. The Biden administration is refusing to withdraw assistance from Saudi Arabia, thereby violating its commitments on Yemen made a year ago, when on February 4, President Biden declared to the world that the US will cease “offensive” support for the war on Yemen conflict. Raytheon, a business that profits from the war on Yemen, contributed more than $500,000 to President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.  In the fragments of weapons in the Saudi-led coalition raid attack on a jail in Yemen…

During the war on Gaza last May, “Israel’s” Shin Bet security service admitted using a tracking system to send threatening messages to Palestinians throughout occupied Palestine. Israeli media reported Thursday that “Israel’s” Shin Bet security service admitted to using its tracking system to send threatening messages to Palestinians in both the occupied ’48 territories and the occupied West Bank last May during the war on Gaza. According to Haaretz, the service confessed that the messages were sent to persons who were not accused of any wrongdoing and that the remarks were “inappropriately phrased”. It promised to improve its protocols on the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces that the President of the Israeli occupation, Isaac Herzog, will visit Turkey in mid-March to improve relations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that the President of the Israeli occupation, Isaac Herzog, will visit Turkey in mid-March. In a press conference, before he departed to Ukraine, Erdogan added that both sides “look forward to improving relations.” Earlier, Erdogan made it clear that they aim to make progress through positive approaches regarding the possibility of cooperation with “Israel” in the eastern Mediterranean, stressing that “Ankara will do everything in its power if this…

Hasaka, SANA- Turkish occupation forces and their terrorist mercenaries targeted with rocket and artillery shelling the villages of al-Daradarah and Bab al-Khair in Hasaka northwestern countryside. Local sources told SANA reporter on Thursday that the Turkish occupation forces and the terrorist groups supported by them attacked with rocket and artillery shelling the villages of al-Daradarah in Tal Tamer area and Bab al-Khair in the surroundings of Abu Rasin town, in Hasaka northwestern countryside, causing material damage to the area. The sources pointed out that most of the villages and towns adjacent to the areas which are controlled by the Turkish…

On Thursday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced that US Spec Ops forces had successfully completed a counterterrorism operation in Idlib province, northwestern Syria. At least a dozen people, including civilians, are reported to have died in the raid. The United States has eliminated Daesh’s* top commander, President Joe Biden has announced. “Thanks to the skill and bravery of our Armed Forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi- the leader of ISIS. All Americans have returned safely from the operation,”Biden said in a statement Thursday. Al-Qurashi, 45, was dubbed the second ‘caliph’ of the Islamic State, aka…

Occupied Jerusalem, SANA-The Israeli occupation forces launched an attack on Thursday on Palestinian farmers in the southern Gaza Strip. Maan News Agency reported that the occupation forces opened fire on farmers east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, forcing them to leave their lands. On Wednesday, a number of Palestinian farmers suffered suffocation in al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps in the central Gaza Strip after the occupation forces threw toxic gas bombs on them to force them to leave their lands. Source: SANA

Saudi coalition warplanes launched 5 raids in the Al-Nahdin area, south of the Yemeni capital. Al Mayadeen correspondent reported at dawn on Thursday that the Saudi coalition warplanes launched 5 raids on the Al-Nahdin area, south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. In the past hours, the Saudi coalition has amped its aggression against Yemen and its warplanes launched 38 air raids on the governorates of Marib, Taiz, Al-Jawf, Hajjah, and Abyan. With 17 airstrikes, coalition warplanes targeted the districts of Al-Wadi, Al-Juba, Madghal, and Raghwan in Marib, northeastern Yemen, and with two raids, they targeted the Jabal Habashi District in Taiz, southwest Yemen.…

A ‘counterterrorism mission’ in the Idlib province is said to have involved a massive gun battle The US military has confirmed it conducted a counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby was short on details, calling the mission a success and saying the American troops suffered no casualties. Sources on the ground described a large gun battle to the media and said some civilians were killed. The US raid targeted a house in the village of Atmeh in Syria’s Idlib province near the border with Turkey, the Associated Press said, citing local sources. The operation involved helicopters, explosions, and…

In a message to the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirms the indivisibility of security. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that the West is trying to ignore the basic principle of indivisibility in Europe, as well as documents that do not allow strengthening the security of the West at the expense of other countries. In a letter to foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Lavrov said the ministers give priority literally and exclusively to the principle of free choice of alliances, completely ignoring…