Author: Steven Sahiounie

Authorities said a 26-year-old man was in custody after one person was killed and seven people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma, where witnesses described frantic people running for cover amid gunfire. An arrest warrant was issued for Skyler Buckner and he turned himself in to the Muskogee County sheriff’s office Sunday afternoon, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. OSBI said that those shot at the Memorial Day event in Taft, located about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Tulsa, ranged in age from 9 to 56. A…

Sweden and Finland have yet to address Ankara’s security demands, President Erdogan says Turkey will not approve Finland and Sweden’s bids to join NATO until they properly address Ankara’s concerns over their alleged support for terrorist organizations, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, promising not to repeat “past mistakes.” “For as long as Tayyip Erdogan is the head of the Republic of Turkey, we definitely cannot say ‘yes’ to countries which support terrorism entering NATO,” the Turkish leader told reporters on returning from a trip to Azerbaijan, according to state media reports on Sunday. Delegations from Sweden and Finland met with their Turkish counterparts…

The Islamic Republic of Iran Army unveiled two new drone systems during a visit by Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, to a secret drone base on May 28. Iran’s state TV said that the army is keeping around a hundred drone in the base that is located in the “heart of the Zagros mountains”. The first system, dubbed “Heidar-1,” is a drone launched cruise missile with a range of up to 200 kilometers. The missile is equipped with an optical seeker, and possibly a data-link. Iran didn’t provide much information about the second…

Russian President told them about dangers of Western weapons supplies to Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, confirmed Moscow’s readiness to continue peace talks with Kiev, the Kremlin press service said on Saturday. “Special attention was given to the state of affairs on the negotiating track, which is frozen because of Kiev. Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia is open to resuming the dialogue,” the statement said. Western weapons Putin, in a telephone conversation with Macron and Scholz, stressed the danger of pumping Ukraine with Western weapons, the Kremlin press…

A top Ukrainian official had earlier admitted that Liman in Donetsk Region had fallen Russian forces together with those from the Donetsk People’s Republic have taken over the Ukrainian town of Liman, Russia’s Defense Ministry has claimed. On Thursday, Alexey Arestovich, a key adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, admitted during a livestream that Ukrainian forces had lost the town. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov announced on Saturday that Liman had been “fully liberated from Ukrainian nationalists.” Just before Ukraine admitted the fall of Liman, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba described the situation in Donbass as “extremely bad” for Ukrainian forces during…

Kiev forces have been spotted firing FH70 155 mm towed howitzers, which were recently donated by Italy, for the first time. On May 27, Ukrainian sources shared a video showing a unit of Kiev forces setting up and firing FH70 howitzers on an unspecified front in the Donbass region, where the Russian military and its allies are advancing as a part of a special operation that began in February. The FH70 was developed by an international consortium, which included Vickers Ltd in the UK, OTO Melara in Italy, and Rheinmetall from Germany. The heavy howitzer is normally operated by a…

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Afghanistan said that 16 children have been killed in the country in only the last two days. Mohamed Ag Ayoya, the UNICEF representative in Afghanistan, stated in a tweet on Friday, May 27, that violence against children should be stopped immediately, in addition to informing people about the surge in violence against children. “In the past two days 16 children were killed in attacks in Kabul & Mazar-e-Sharif and one other in Uruzgan due to unexploded remnants of war,” he wrote. The UNICEF representative offered condolences to the families of the…

Russian artillery and missile forces hit more than 600 areas of concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and more than 40 artillery and mortar units The people’s militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian armed forces liberated the city of Krasny Lyman from Ukrainian nationalists, official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov announced on Saturday. “As a result of the joint actions of the people’s militia units of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Russian armed forces, the city of Krasny Liman was completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists,” Konashenkov said. Russian artillery and…

Moscow’s ambassador to Washington was responding to media reports that the US will ship multiple launch rocket systems to Kiev The risk of escalating the conflict in Ukraine would be considerably heightened if the US provides Kiev with long-range multiple launch rocket systems, Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, warned on Friday. Earlier, several US media outlets reported that the Biden administration had given the green light to the deliveries. When asked for comment on the claims, Antonov said the allegations have to be verified first, and that so far, no official announcement had been made by US officials.…

On May 28, the Russian military deployed reinforcements at al-Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria in what appears to be a response to Turkey’s recent threats to the region. According to Russian and Syrian sources, the reinforcements included a number of Su-34 fighter bombers and Ka-52 attack helicopters. Last year, the Russian military stepped up its presence at al-Qamishli Airport turning it into its main base in northeastern Syria. The deployment came amid reports of ongoing preparations by Turkish military and its proxies to launch a new large-scale operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and northeastern Syria. In what…