Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Israeli occupation forces arrest 24 citizens from different parts of the occupied city of Al-Quds, including a young citizen for raising the Palestinian flag while enjoying the snow. The Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian from occupied Al-Quds from inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque for raising the Palestinian flag while the citizens celebrated the snow. Young Palestinians had raised Palestinian flags on the walls of Al-Quds to celebrate the snow. Last night, the Israeli occupation police carried out a campaign of arrests that targeted 23 residents of occupied Al-Quds from different parts of the city, most of…

The UAE authorities are forbidding the spread of any footage showing missiles in the country’s airspace on social platforms. The UAE Public Prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that it had summoned several people for sharing videos of defense systems intercepting a missile attack by Yemen’s Armed Forces on Monday. The UAE, the Gulf’s commercial and tourism hub, confirmed two attacks by Yemeni armed forces a week apart. “The Public Prosecution warned that such (video) clips endanger vital and military installations, and can impact the security and stability of society,” a statement on state news agency WAM said. It did not…

New York, SANA- Iran renewed the demand for immediate departure of the foreign occupation forces that are illegitimately existed on the Syrian lands and without preconditions, asserting the necessity to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria that respects its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Iran’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said during a Security Council session on Wednesday that the Syrian sovereignty and territorial integrity are violated either by occupying parts of the Syrian lands or by the aggressions of the Israeli occupation and the terrorists. Ravanchi stressed that the suffering of the Syrian people…

US inflation has hit yet another 40 year high of 7 percent, with the Federal Reserve expected to raise its benchmark interest rate four times in 2022. Soaring prices are eating into wage gains and increasing pressure on Joe Biden ahead of the midterms, raising the question as to who is to blame, the pandemic or the Biden administration’s policies.”Inflation is not only a political problem, it’s an economic problem, and Biden, of course, is mainly responsible for this,” says American professor Joe Siracusa, a US politics expert from Curtin University in Australia. “If there’s too much money in the…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The January 20 attack on the Ghweran prison in Hasaka, Syria carried out by ISIS terrorists is being blamed on the international community, and western democracies specifically, by Kurdish officials who are responsible for the security at the prison. Abdulkarim Omar, the co-chair of the Kurdish administration’s foreign office, said the attack was the result of the international community’s failure to shoulder its responsibilities of the ISIS prisoners who are imprisoned in Syria. Kurdish authorities have warned for years that they are not able to properly feed and guard the massive camps of ISIS…

Earlier predictions that Moscow could be poised to stage an assault have been pushed back Russian tanks and troops could be just weeks away from rolling across the Ukrainian border and sparking an all-out conflict in Europe, one of Kiev’s top generals has alleged. In an interview published in British newspaper The Times on Saturday, Lieutenant-General Alexander Pavlyuk said that the incursion could be staged in the days following the Winter Olympics, due to be held in Beijing next month. February 20 “is a date that concerns us,” he went on, arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin would likely want…

Senior Russian official confirms that the West accuses Russia of “planning an invasion of Ukraine”, and points out that the West’s attempts to destabilize the situation in Russia’s neighboring countries persist. Chair of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentina Matviyenko affirmed that the West’s efforts to destabilize the situation in Russia’s neighboring countries continue, stressing that accusing Russia of planning an invasion against Ukraine is a baseless allegation. Matviyenko added that “the year began with some really dreadful international events. The world continues to be in a state of fear and instability; unfortunately, attempts to destabilize…

British special forces have been spotted near Geweran prison in the northeastern Syrian city of al-Hasakah where ISIS terrorists have been holding up for nearly a week now. The terrorists launched a large-scale attack on the prison, which is located in the southern part of al-Hasakah, late on January 20. The attack, which was meant to free ISIS captives, ended up with the terrorists capturing the entire prison and nearby areas from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). On January 25, the al-Ghad TV aired footage from the vicinity of Geweran prison showing a convoy of five “Escapade” Bushmaster PMVs…

Hasaka, SANA- The QSD militia, backed by the American occupation forces, raided al-Zohour and Ghwairan neighborhoods and a number of villages near Hasaka City under the pretext of searching for fugitives from the Industrial Secondary School Prison and kidnapped a number of civilians. Groups of the QSD militia raided this morning the western neighborhood of Ghwairan under the pretext of searching for fugitives from the Industrial Secondary School Prison and broke into homes and kidnapped a number of men and young men and took them to an unknown destination, local sources told SANA reporter. The sources indicated that the raid…

New York, SANA- The Russian mission to the United Nations has affirmed that Washington continues to support and enhance the capabilities of the terrorists of “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham” terrorist organization in Idleb, northern Syria. “Under the pretext of helping the Syrians who are forcibly detained by the terrorists of (Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham) in Idleb as human shields, American diplomacy supports these terrorists at the expense of American taxpayers… The United States also spares no effort to beautify the image of the beheaders in Idleb and present them as an alternative to the legitimate government in Damascus,” the mission said in…