Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

Passage to Red Square has been blocked after the scaffolding partially collapsed from the Kremlin wall earlier on Friday. According to TASS, passages to the square are currently blocked from all nearby streets. As the security officials which control the perimeter stated, Red Square was closed due to the collapse. There are several people on the Kremlin wall in the area of the Spasskaya Tower near the battlements that were damaged in the accident. One of the elements on the wall is completely missing. Earlier, the Russian Federal Protective Service’s Office of Public Affairs told TASS that the incident occurred…

The Russian Special Envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, announced that the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, suggested holding a new meeting in Geneva on November 22 and in December. Damascus, for its part, has yet to make a decision. Lavrentiev stated that the parties meeting in Geneva expressed their readiness to hold the seventh and eighth sessions of the [Constitutional Committee] in November and December, but no agreement has been reached on a specific date. The Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations had said, earlier on Friday, that the parties were unable to determine the date…

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, announced that “in Palestine, there is an oppressed people, an occupied land, and violated sanctities that no human being can be unconcerned with,” adding that the US and some Arab regimes “want to eliminate the heartfelt denial of Israel among our people.” Sayyed Nasrallah gave a televised speech commemorating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, which coincides with Islamic Unity Week, during which he described the normalization conference in Erbil as “testing the waters,” noting that had it not been silenced, similar conferences would have ensued. Regarding Yemen, Sayyed Nasrallah stated that the…

State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference that “the US will ask “Israel” for clarifications on the basis for designating 6 Palestinian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as terrorist organizations.” In his press brief, Price indicated that Israeli officials “did not inform us in advance about this,” stressing that “respect for human rights is an important principle.” Democratic Party Representative, Ilhan Omar, wrote on her Twitter account, “There must be immediate consequences from the US and the international community for this brazen act.” On the other hand, the Democratic US House of Representatives member, Mark Buchan, confirmed in a…

Ahmed al-Kizbari, head of the national delegation to the meetings of the Committee of discussing the constitution in Geneva, affirmed that the national delegation discussed, in the 6th round of the Committee meetings, principles that reflect the aspirations of the Syrian people, and came with positive spirit to do everything possible for the success of this round. Al-Kizbari said, in a press conference in the 6th concluding round of the Committee meetings in Geneva “the national delegation was always keen to discuss the constitution among Syrians, far from foreign intervention agendas, has come with a positive spirit to do everything…