Author: Steven Sahiounie

Late on May 20, an Israeli attack with ground-launched missiles targeted the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. A Syrian military official told the Syrian Arab News Agency that the attack was launched from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. “At around 23:01 pm of Friday, 20-5-2022, the Israeli enemy carried out an aggression with ground-to-ground missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting some positions in southern Damascus,” the unnamed official said. “Our air defense means confronted the hostile missiles, shooting down most of them.” The official went on to acknowledge that the Israeli attack…

The entry of US military forces into the area west of the Euphrates and the areas of militants affiliated with Turkey is the first of its kind. Coordination groups close to the parties affiliated with Turkey reported that a US military force, tanks, and cars bearing the American flag, accompanied by Turkish intelligence, entered areas in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which are under the control of the “Euphrates Shield” militants. Al Mayadeen sources spoke of an intense flight of American reconnaissance planes and helicopters over the northern countryside of Aleppo, in conjunction with the movement of American military vehicles,…

All eyes are on Turkey, which objected to the admission of the two Nordic nations to the alliance Diplomats representing Sweden and Finland at NATO met with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday to deliver their governments’ requests to admit their nations into the military bloc. Axel Wernhoff of Sweden and Klaus Korhonen of Finland met the NATO chief together to file the paperwork. The two letters were signed by the foreign ministers of both nations on Tuesday. Stoltenberg thanked the envoys for delivering the applications, which he said was a historic step for the organization, adding that all members…

According to Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, Russia is “an indisputable leader” on the global arms markets in terms of this type of weapons by technical characteristics The latest S-500 anti-aircraft missile system has begun arriving for Russian troops, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said during the government’s New Horizons educational marathon on Wednesday. “Today the troops have already begun receiving the systems that actually combine the functions of air and anti-missile defenses and these are S-500 weapons,” Borisov said. The S-500, like the Tor, Buk, S-300, S-350 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, enjoy great demand on the global arms…

The SVR claims that Washington is “ready to use any means,” including hiring ISIS fighters as mercenaries The US has been “actively recruiting” terrorists to fight in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) claimed on Tuesday, saying that it illustrates Washington’s readiness “to use any means to achieve its geopolitical goals.” The SVR revealed in a statement that, according to the intelligence it is receiving, “the United States is actively recruiting even members of international terrorist organizations, including the Islamic State (ISIS) group banned in the Russian Federation, as mercenaries to participate in hostilities in Ukraine.” The Russian intelligence service points to the American…

On May 18, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported that the militants of the nationalist Azov unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant continued to surrender. According to the Russian MoD, 694 militants surrendered over the past day, including 29 wounded. A total of 959 militants have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded, of whom 51 who needed urgent treatment were placed in the hospital of Novoazovsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic. On May 17, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 265 militants had laid down their arms and surrendered. On May 18, Ukrainian President Zelensky commented…

Turkey has strongly opposed Sweden’s application to join NATO by criticising its ostensibly lenient treatment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. Consequently, the ruling Social Democrats have sought to make amends by stressing that Stockholm considers the PKK to be terrorists, despite the risk of alienating Kurdish allies. Member of Parliament, Amineh Kakabaveh, has declared that she will no longer support the Swedish government as it seeks NATO membership.The 51-year-old former member of the Left Party who is of Iranian Kurdish descent is worried that the ruling Social Democrats are “giving in” to Turkey by branding the Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK)…

Russian forces used advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to fire on Israeli jets during the Zionist regime’s air attack on targets in northwestern Syria last week, Israel’s Channel 13 news said Monday. “For the first time since the beginning of the attacks on Syria, a Russian air defense system fired an S-300 missile toward an (Israeli) air force aircraft,” Israeli Channel 13 quoted military affairs commentator Alon Ben David as saying. The Russian ministry of defense had revealed Saturday that Israeli F-16s fired 22 missiles toward a Syrian scientific research center in Masyaf and the Baniyas port, which were intercepted. The air defense…

The US Air Force called the trial a ‘major accomplishment’ after a series of failed launch tests The US military said it successfully tested a hypersonic missile system, claiming the new weapon reached speeds greater than five times the speed of sound. It marked the first successful launch of the prototype following three failed tests. The Air Force announced the test on Monday, saying it was conducted over the weekend near Edwards Air Force Base in California. The trial saw a B-52 Stratofortress bomber release an AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) off California’s southern coast. “Following separation from the aircraft, the…

FM Ann Linde signed the request after the government decided to seek membership of the US-led bloc Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde has signed a formal request to NATO to accept the country as a member, the country’s mission to the military alliance reported on Tuesday. The government made the decision one day earlier. Linde said that signing the application “felt big and serious” in terms of the historic significance of the move. Sweden had maintained military neutrality since the Napoleonic Wars, and did not join NATO during the Cold War. The minister said the application will be submitted to NATO along…