Author: Steven Sahiounie

Moscow was dissatisfied with the US and NATO offers, but insists it retains hope for further discussions Russia is “dissatisfied” with the West’s reaction to its key security proposals, which Moscow furnished amid mounting tensions over Ukraine, but is still hoping to resolve a growing standoff through diplomatic channels, it was announced on Monday. President Vladimir Putin summoned Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the Kremlin on Monday to discuss their opinion on the offers received from the US and NATO on the subject of European security and the potential expansion of the military bloc into Ukraine. Putin began…

Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has revealed additional info about a purported incident involving an American nuclear submarine in Russian waters The Russian defense minister has outlined details of an incident which, according to Moscow, saw a US military submarine violate Russia’s sovereignty over the weekend. The Pentagon has denied that any such event took place. Speaking on Monday, Sergey Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the submarine went 4km deep into the country’s territorial waters. It took Russia’s military three hours to make the intruding boat leave and required the deployment of “special actions” three times, Shoigu told the president. The…

Moscow, SANA- Russia revealed information about the intention of US intelligence to exploit sleeper terrorist cells in Syria to carry out attacks against the Syrian Arab Army. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in a statement that the Russian forces in Syria has information about the US intelligence plans to mobilize sleeping extremists in Syria to carry out attacks against the Syrian Army and the Russian and Iranian military personnel. He added that the Russian forces in Syria are taking appropriate measures to deal with any possible incidents of this kind. Source: SANA

Jenin mourns the Palestinian youth Mohammad Akram Abu Salah, who was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces in a massive march against the occupation’s arbitrary measures. A Palestinian teen was killed and ten others were wounded, at dawn today, Monday, by the Israeli occupation forces’ bullets as they stormed  Silat Al-Harithiya town, west of Jenin, accompanied by dozens of military vehicles with the aim of demolishing houses. The Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinian citizens who gathered to confront them defending their town. Hundreds of people took part in the funeral procession of the Palestinian martyr Mohammad Akram Abu…

The Prisoners’ Information Office announces a new escalating step in “Megiddo” Prison, represented by the prisoners’ boycott of medication intake. Palestinian administrative prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons continue their boycott of the occupation courts for the 45th day in a row demanding an end to the arbitrary administrative detention policy under the slogan “Our Choice Is Our Freedom.” The Prisoners’ Information Office announced a new escalation step, as “the sick administrative prisoners in Megiddo prison announced their boycott of medication intake protesting their administrative detention and demanding their immediate release.” It is expected that other prisons will join this…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The Kremlin announced intelligence findings which show the US is planning to use the CIA to instigate terrorist actions in Latakia and Damascus directed against Russian and Iranian presence.  This action would be used as a US promoted media campaign within Syria to produce fear and instability leading to an uprising, or call for ‘regime change’. When the US-NATO war machine began their Syrian ‘regime change’ project in 2011, many thought that the project would be given up after the Syrian Arab Army and their Russian ally fought the terrorists that the US CIA…

On February 13, a militant of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed and two others were wounded when a series of Turkish artillery strike hit the outskirts of the town of Ain Issa in the northern countryside of Raqqa, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The London-based monitoring group said that the fighters were overseeing the construction of fortifications near Ain Issa refugee camp. From its side, the Hawar News Agency reported that Turkish artillery strikes on Ain Issa outskirts killed a civilian man. The agency identified the victim as 35-year-old Muhyiddin Hajj Ahmed Ibrahim. The Turkish…

Russia’s ambassador in Sweden has called NATO’s expansion “the biggest threat” to Moscow Viktor Tatarintsev, Russia’s ambassador to Sweden, did not mince his words when he delivered a strong rebuke to Western sanctions on Sunday. “Excuse my language, but we don’t give a s**t about sanctions,” Tatarintsev told Swedish daily Aftonbladet. The US, Britain, and the EU have all threatened to impose new sanctions on Russia if it invades Ukraine. Moscow, meanwhile, has denied any plans to attack its neighbor. The Russian diplomat accused the US and NATO of stoking tensions in Europe. “The expansion of NATO is the biggest threat to…

Israelis attack the Salem family home, threatening to set it on fire. Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians gathered near the Salem family house today at dawn, which is threatened with eviction from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, occupied Al-Quds. According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, the settlers attacked the Palestinian homes and vehicles with stones, and pepper-sprayed the neighborhood’s residents right by the Salem home, west of the neighborhood. Israeli settlers also attacked the neighbors within the vicinities. Fatima Salem, a resident, joined and supported other neighborhood residents who were worried that the settlers would set Salem’s house on fire. In response to the…

Kabul, SANA- A crowd of Afghan citizens demonstrated in the capital, Kabul, demanding the United States to pay compensations for tens of thousands of victims of its war on their country, and denouncing its decision to seize half of the Afghan Central Bank frozen funds under the pretext of financing humanitarian aid. The Associated Press (AP) reported today that the demonstrators condemned US President Joe Biden’s order to release 3.5 billion dollars of Afghan assets owned in the United States to the families of the September 11 victims, saying that these funds belong to Afghans and therefore the US administration…