Author: Steven Sahiounie

The five-year-old boy fell into a well in the northern town of Bab Berred four days ago. Rescuers in Morocco are nearing the end of a rescue mission to save a five-year-old child, Rayan, who fell in a northern town’s 100-foot-deep well on Tuesday. According to his mother, he was playing nearby when he suddenly disappeared. Rayan’s mother has been distraught and the north African country has been on high alert awaiting his rescue. “I ask Moroccans to pray for the safe return of my son,” she said to local media. Rescuers used bulldozers to excavate a parallel shaft through…

The Sadrist bloc, led by Muqtada al-Sadr, has decided to halt negotiations with all political blocs regarding the formation of a government. The Sadrist bloc in Iraq announced Saturday the halting of negotiations with the political blocs regarding the formation of the government. The bloc also announced its intention to boycott Monday’s parliamentary session to elect a president. During a press conference, the head of Sadrist bloc, Hussein Al-Azari, told reporters that all talks with the parliamentary factions to form a future government had been suspended by an order of Sadrist bloc leader Moqtada Sadr, adding that its members wouldn’t attend Monday’s…

The waivers were withdrawn by Trump in 2019 and 2020 following his abrupt and much-maligned exit from the nuclear agreement which took years of negotiations to implement. The US administration has restored sanctions waivers to Iran as the indirect negotiations in Vienna concerning the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal nears its final stages. The waivers would now allow international nuclear cooperation projects to take place. The waivers previously allowed European, Russian and Chinese companies to perform non-proliferation work that would largely obstruct the use of Iranian nuclear sites for weapons development – an accusation that does not fall in line…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The diplomatic situation and military buildup between the US-NATO and Russia over Ukraine seems to be taken out of an old drama called The Cuban Missile Crisis, which was one scene from the Cold War of 1947-1989. The difference in this new revised version of the drama is the main roles are reversed. Not lost on the similarities between then and now, is the fact the 1962 Soviet missiles had been boarded into the ships at Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. This present crisis comes…

On 1 January 2022, six Muslim female students at Government Pre-University College in Karnataka state’s Udupi District accused the principal of not allowing them to attend classes because they were wearing hijabs. They therefore boycotted their lessons and sat outside in protest. The hijab controversy, which broke out in the Udupi district of India’s Karnataka state in January, has intensified as more Muslim students studying in other colleges have been forbidden to enter the classrooms wearing their traditional headscarves.Hindu students began wearing saffron shawls as a mark of protest against their Hijab-clad classmates.The latest incident took place on World Hijab Day…

Turkey’s annual inflation rate in January reached its highest level since April 2002, official data revealed on Thursday. After a currency crisis ravaged the people’s purchasing power, Turkey’s annual inflation rate in January hit its highest level since April 2002, according to official figures released on Thursday. According to the Turkish statistics office, consumer prices increased by 48.7% in January compared to the same period the previous year, up from 36.1% in December. The results were released just days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed a new director of the state statistics agency for the fourth time in 2019. Erdogan’s path…

Not surprisingly, the donors who campaigned for US President Joe Biden do not want the support for the war on Yemen to end. The Biden administration is refusing to withdraw assistance from Saudi Arabia, thereby violating its commitments on Yemen made a year ago, when on February 4, President Biden declared to the world that the US will cease “offensive” support for the war on Yemen conflict. Raytheon, a business that profits from the war on Yemen, contributed more than $500,000 to President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.  In the fragments of weapons in the Saudi-led coalition raid attack on a jail in Yemen…

During the war on Gaza last May, “Israel’s” Shin Bet security service admitted using a tracking system to send threatening messages to Palestinians throughout occupied Palestine. Israeli media reported Thursday that “Israel’s” Shin Bet security service admitted to using its tracking system to send threatening messages to Palestinians in both the occupied ’48 territories and the occupied West Bank last May during the war on Gaza. According to Haaretz, the service confessed that the messages were sent to persons who were not accused of any wrongdoing and that the remarks were “inappropriately phrased”. It promised to improve its protocols on the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announces that the President of the Israeli occupation, Isaac Herzog, will visit Turkey in mid-March to improve relations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that the President of the Israeli occupation, Isaac Herzog, will visit Turkey in mid-March. In a press conference, before he departed to Ukraine, Erdogan added that both sides “look forward to improving relations.” Earlier, Erdogan made it clear that they aim to make progress through positive approaches regarding the possibility of cooperation with “Israel” in the eastern Mediterranean, stressing that “Ankara will do everything in its power if this…

Hasaka, SANA- Turkish occupation forces and their terrorist mercenaries targeted with rocket and artillery shelling the villages of al-Daradarah and Bab al-Khair in Hasaka northwestern countryside. Local sources told SANA reporter on Thursday that the Turkish occupation forces and the terrorist groups supported by them attacked with rocket and artillery shelling the villages of al-Daradarah in Tal Tamer area and Bab al-Khair in the surroundings of Abu Rasin town, in Hasaka northwestern countryside, causing material damage to the area. The sources pointed out that most of the villages and towns adjacent to the areas which are controlled by the Turkish…