Author: Steven Sahiounie

ISIL group on Friday said it was behind an explosion that brought down electricity lines and plunged Kabul into darkness, ND TV reported. In a statement published on its Telegram channels, ISIL terrorist group said that the soldiers of the caliphate detonated a bomb on an electricity pylon in Kabul” to damage the electricity sector. The explosion hit a high-voltage line supplying imported power to Kabul and some other provinces. Afghanistan is largely reliant on electricity imported from its northern neighbors Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, making cross-country power lines a prime target for insurgents. The Taliban has promised to fight ISIL but the…

Commander of Iran’s Border Guards Police Brigadier General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi made the remarks on Sat. at the graduation ceremony of students of Samen Al-A’meh Border Science and Technology Training Center and reiterated that trade and economic visa are active at border terminals and border guards are rendering quality services round-the-clock to facilitate the relevant activities. Islamic Republic of Iran shares borders with 25 neighboring countries and has established stable and desirable security on country’s borders, especially in southeastern borders, he emphasized. Elsewhere in his remarks, he said that Iran has established fair diplomatic interaction with neighboring countries, adding that none of…

By F. William Engdahl The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and now especially, natural gas energy. What makes this different from the energy shocks of the 1970s is that this time, it is developing as the corporate investment world, using the fraudulent ESG green investment model, is dis-investing in future oil, gas and…

Between 100 and 200 Americans who wish to leave the country are still stuck there, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters during a Friday press briefing, claiming the numbers are “far from static” and are “constantly changing.” “Any figure, any precise figure is nothing more than a momentary snapshot in time,” he said. “The same is true of Americans in Afghanistan who wish to leave and who are ready to do so. That number is always changing.” Right now, the number of Americans in that category is between 100 and 200. That figure has risen in recent days as…

A leading UK-based gas and electricity company says the county’s energy market is facing an absolute “massacre” that could lead to the bankruptcy of at least 20 suppliers in the next month alone. “There is a significant risk you could see the market shrink all the way back to five to six companies,” Scottish Power Chief Executive Keith Anderson told the Financial Times newspaper on Thursday. Scottish Power is Britain’s fifth largest energy supplier with around 8 percent of the domestic gas supply market, according to data from regulator Ofgem. “We expect, probably in the next month, at least another 20 suppliers will…

The world must finally put an end to the impunity of war criminals by holding US and UK officials responsible for launching the illegal war on Iraq, done without the approval of the UN Security Council, and prosecuting them under the Nuremberg principles, American journalist Don DeBar said. DeBar made the remarks in an interview with Press TV while commenting on a report which has revealed that British military inquiries into abuse against Iraqi nationals have been closed without a single prosecution being brought, even though the credibility of many “shocking and shameful incidents” during the war in the Middle Eastern country…

Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have made new advances in the country’s central province of Ma’rib, establishing full control over a strategic region south of the provincial capital. They took control of the Naja region following fierce clashes with Saudi-sponsored militants loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemeni sources said on Friday. The troops also laid siege to the Jabal Murad district, and are about to launch negotiations with local tribal leaders for the liberation of the area, they added. Dozens of militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islah party have fled Ma’rib to neighboring provinces amid advances by Yemeni…

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced it used a Predator drone to kill Abdul Hamid al-Matar, described as ‘senior Al-Qaeda leader,’ in northwestern Syria. The US military claimed no civilians were hurt in the strike. “We have no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the strike, which was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft,” CENTCOM spokesman Major John Rigsbee said in a statement on Friday evening. Though Rigsbee put the strike in “northwest” Syria, CENTCOM named Suluk – a town in the north, near the border with Turkey, as the location of the strike. According to the most recent maps of who controls…

By Paul Robinson NATO membership for Ukraine may still be a distant dream, but the US is continuing to pretend otherwise to keep Kiev in the anti-Russian camp. The question is how long it will be before Ukrainians realize they’ve been conned. Joined-up government is not one of America’s strong points. While one arm of the system does one thing, the other arm does something different, often entirely contradictory to the first. At times, they even deliberately undermine each other. Different bits of the bureaucracy have different interests, and only the strongest of leaders can somehow push them all in the…

Search and rescue operations in the village of Lesnoi, the Ryazan Region, where an explosion took place inside a munitions disposal workshop on Friday, have been completed after the body of the last, 17th victim has been recovered from the ruins, emergency services said.  “The body of the 17th victim has been recovered from the workshop’s ruins. The search and rescue operation at the site of the explosion is over. There is nobody else under the debris,” the source said. At the moment of the emergency there were 17 workers inside. None of them survived. One was recovered alive only…