Author: Steven Sahiounie

Geneva, SANA – Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations’ Office and International Organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Houssam al-Din Ala, affirmed that Syria calls for the end of the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Arab Golan and the stop of its crimes and aggression on the Palestinian people. “The violation of international law and UN resolutions, including the resolutions of the Human rights’ Council, is still the most prominent title of the acts of the Israeli occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.” Ambassador Ala said in a statement on Friday at…

On October 1 and 2, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) carried out more than 40 airstrikes on Syria’s central region where ISIS terrorists are waging an insurgency against Syrian government forces.The airstrikes targeted hideouts of the terrorist group’s cells in the Hama-Aleppo-Raqqa triangle, the eastern Homs countryside and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, nine terrorists of ISIS were killed and 12 others were wounded as a result of the Russian airstrikes.“Most of them [the terrorists] were killed within the desert of Raqqa and Hama,” the London-based monitoring group said in…

The “Fatehan Kheybar” (Conquerors of Kheybar) war games are underway in northwest Iran as part of a program to assess Iranian forces’ readiness and capabilities.The “Fatehan-e Kheybar” war games kicked off in Iran, on Friday, under the supervision of the Commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force, Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and provincial officials from the country’s northwest, near Azerbaijan border.According to Iran’s Mehr News Agency, UAVs first made a general identification of the area. Then the information was sent to the command post, and the 25th Rapid Reaction Brigade carried out the…

Although the island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea gained independence from the United Kingdom in the 1960s, it has remained a member of the Commonwealth and is among more than a dozen nations that recognise Queen Elizabeth II as their formal head of state. Barbados is on the verge of ending its colonial past as Prime Minister Mia Mottley has proposed the candidacy of Dame Sandra Mason for the post of the country’s president. “We believe [Ms Mason] is a fitting nomination for the post of being the first president of Barbados to be elected by this parliament. I am happy…

“Some will say he sold the party and left the ship, while conspiracy theorists will say they want to make a truce between the Justice and Development Party and the Good Party.” RemoNews website, which covers Turkish affairs quoted Fatih Altayli, a HaberTürk columnist, as saying that Faruk Acar, President of the Andy-Ar Research Company, whom he described as “one of the three most competent names in determining the strategies of the Justice and Development Party,” led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has defected and will now work with Meral Aksener, the founder and leader of the Good Party.…

The Greek island of Crete has been hit by an earthquake, leaving a trail of victims and damages behind. The earthquake is estimated to have had a magnitude of 5.8 according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute. Meanwhile, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.5. One man was found dead in a chapel in the town of Arkalochori, south of the island’s capital, Heraklion. He was working on the chapel’s renovations when the chapel completely crumbled. Nine other people were injured in the quake according to civil protection authorities. The tremor forced people to…

Robot Soccer World Cup or RoboCup, an organization created by robotics scientists and university professors is promoting athletic robotics and AI research. The group has been running annual international football tournaments for robots since 1996, in an effort to one day make sports competitions between humans and robots a reality. “By the middle of the 21st Century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official rules of FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup,” stated RoboCup’s website. Teams that participate in RoboCup already use human-shaped robots with advanced…

Brent crude oil continued making gains Tuesday, jumping above $80 a barrel, a first in nearly three years. The rise in value is attributed to escalating concerns about surging demands and supply anxieties as the world is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. With governments easing restrictions and lockdowns and vaccines rolling out, more and more are betting on oil, with natural gas being at its highest in seven years. At the same time, crude stockpiles have decreased as output by OPEC and other major producers, such as Russia, have been unable to cover the increase in demand. Brent made a…

An informed official in the Public Relations Department at the Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps expressed that “Israel,” supported by the US and some European countries, is the biggest threat to the security of the West Asia region. While giving a speech to a gathering of the academic elite on Tuesday, the official revealed Iran’s possession of numerous intelligence and operational scenarios about “Israel’s” sensitive centers and strategic systems. The official divulged that such information has changed Iran’s position from “ambiguity and lack of information to high transparency and accessibility, assuring that the Iranian Armed…

Yesterday, Monday, Iraqi diplomatic sources revealed information about a meeting that was held between Saudi and Iranian representatives in the capital, Baghdad, last week. Associated Press quoted an Iraqi official as saying that the representatives held a positive round of talks and discussed “pending issues between the two countries according to a previously agreed-on roadmap, including diplomatic representation between the two countries.” Saudi and Iranian representatives have held rounds of talks in Baghdad over the past months, since the first direct talks between Riyadh and Tehran last April. The meeting is the first since Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took office last…